Pripet Marshes
Americanplural noun
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Even the Russian mosquitoes from the endless Pripet Marshes conspired in guerrilla activity.
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Sending his troops slogging through the Pripet Marshes, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky seized Pinsk, after bombarding it from gunboats sent into the Pripet River from the Dnieper.
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In the windswept plain west of Kiev, in the woods north of the frozen Pripet Marshes, the front stirred, thundered, quieted.
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His father was a small timber merchant in the muddy village of Motol in the Pripet Marshes.
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On the rest of the front as far as the region of the Pripet Marshes there was an exchange of fire.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
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