Cantigny
Americannoun
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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.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 22, 2019
On 28 May 1918, Pershing's trusted First Division, the "Big Red One", attacked at Cantigny in northern France, 20 miles south of Amiens.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2018
I first met Roger during the construction of Cantigny.
From Golf Digest • Nov. 2, 2017
The next day, John Lalish was at 500-acre Cantigny Park in Wheaton, soliciting donations by offering poppies — a Memorial Day weekend tradition for the American Legion.
From Chicago Tribune • May 26, 2014
On May 28, 1918, American troops carried out their first important assignment of World War I. The First Division, General Bullard commanding, was ordered to capture the village of Cantigny.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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