Word: underlaid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plains of Picardy over which the German offensive is now raging are not only pitted with the shell-holes and lined with the trenches of the great Somme battle of 1916, but are underlaid with the relics of a score of other conflicts fought for their possession. Julius Caesar led his legions across the the present battlefield in B.C. 57, while in pursuit of the Nervii. The Franks wrested the region from the Romans and the Northmen in turn from the Franks, sacking St. Quentin in 883 A.D. Picardy was devastated in the Hundred Years' War between France and England...