Cantigny

[kahn-tee-nyee]

noun

1. a village in N France, S of Amiens: first major battle of U.S. forces in World War I, May 1918.

Example Sentences

Golf Digest’s choice at the nation’s best new daily-fee course from 1989 was our Cantigny.

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The week after the Rotary Club event, Underwood arrived early to a town-hall session at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Cantigny Post 367 and took a seat in the front row.

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His main haunt is the nine-hole Cantigny Youth Links.

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American forces won victories at great expense in the battles of Cantigny, Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood, and helped British, French and Portuguese forces win the battle against the German offensive in the Spring of 1918.

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On 28 May 1918, Pershing's trusted First Division, the "Big Red One", attacked at Cantigny in northern France, 20 miles south of Amiens.

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