Word: crapottillot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...February 1915, reports Crapottillot, France's 336th infantry regiment fought hard at Perthes-les-Hurlus. In March it was ordered into the front lines at Souain Mill. Three attempts to take a strong German position failed under withering machine gun fire, with heavy losses. The high command ordered the regiment's 21st company to attack again, at dawn on March 10. At the zero hour the supporting artillery, which had failed miserably in clearing a way through the barbed wire in No Man's Land, clumsily began to drop shells just in front of the 21st...
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