Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...French army is learning baseball rapidly. They like for its speed and excitement, but they have found American terms very difficult. A poilu simply cannot wrap his tongue around such words as "catcher", "base hit", and "umpire...
This letter, recently received by Professor Copeland, comes from a Harvard man whose physical condition debarred him from various forms of active service which he sought to enter. At length he was accepted for the Foreign Legion of the French Army...
...short time ago a completely equipped battery of American three-inch guns, with caissons and limbers, arrived for the use of the Yale S. A. T. C. field artillery men. It was also reported that a battery of French 75-millimetre guns which the Yale R. O. T. C. received from the western front a year ago, and which had been loaned to the government, had been shipped to New Haven. The Unit also has the battery of British 75's which were sent when the French guns were loaned to the government. This gives...
Then there are, scattered along the roads, in the fields and woods, the inevitable graves--sometimes singly or in twos or threes--and again, as when a number of men have fallen before some village strong point--in little cemeteries--graves of Germans as well as French and Americans. And the saddest graves are those which bear some such inscription as "5 Unknown French soldiers, fallen gloriously for their country...
...retirement of troops to our flanks: held our positions from July 15 to 20, then retook what we'd lost, as far as the Marne which we crossed on the 22nd, pushing on about five miles in one day, then held for another day, waiting for the French on our right to catch up; then back to support for a few days; and back into it again on the Vesle for 10 days more. Yes, I think that's a pretty good record for a regiment not thirteen months old, and in their first fight, too--a pretty good record...