Word: rouen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tanks had joined in. East of Rethel, which was pounded only by artillery at first, a massive infantry assault plunged this week into the Argonne Forest, while an armored prong on the west pushed forward at the battle's outset, reached and crossed the lower Seine south of Rouen. Clouds of parachute troops swarmed down on the plain of Champagne, south of Reims. As German operations developed, the Battle of France took its place as easily history's hugest and, for France, most terrible...
...units under terrible battering. But at the line's western end, below Abbeville, where thin British regiments sweated under a torrid summer sun, a double armored column punched swiftly across the Somme delta to the Bresle River, then down to Forges-les-Eaux, a little spa east of Rouen. The Allied line closed behind these raiders, whose objective was to cut Paris' communications to the sea and to force Wey-gand's main retreat southeastward. Allied planes, bombing and machine-gunning, attacked the clanking intruders in swarms...
These are Rouen, on the Seine between Paris and the sea, Compiegne and Soissons, within 25 miles of each other on the Oise Valley sector north and slightly east of Paris, and Rheims, just above the river Marne, east and slightly north of Paris...