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C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 2, chapter 5 (search)
ce, were approaching toward him, and learned from the scouts whom he had sent out, and [also] from the Remi, that they were then not far distant, he hastened to lead his army over the Aisne , which is on the borders of the Remi, and there pitched his camp. This position fortified one side of his camp by the banks of the river, rendered the country which lay in his rear seAisne , which is on the borders of the Remi, and there pitched his camp. This position fortified one side of his camp by the banks of the river, rendered the country which lay in his rear secure from the enemy, and furthermore insured that provisions might without danger be brought to him by the Remi and the rest of the states. Over that river was a bridge: there he places a guard; and on the other side of the river he leaves Q. Titurius Sabinus, his lieutenant, with six cohorts. He orders him to fortify a camp with a rampart twelve feet in height, and a trench e
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 2, chapter 9 (search)
ere ready in arms to attack them while disordered, if the first attempt to pass should be made by them. In the mean time battle was commenced between the two armies by a cavalry action. When neither army began to pass the marsh, Caesar, upon the skirmishes of the horse [proving] favorable to our men, led back his forces into the camp. The enemy immediately hastened from that place to the river Aisne, which it has been; stated was behind our camp. Finding a ford there, they endeavored to lead a part of their forces over it; with the design, that, if they could, they might carry by storm the fort which Q. Titurius, Caesar's lieutenant, commanded, and might cut off the bridge; but, if they could not do that, they should lay waste the lands of the Remi, which were of great use to us in ca
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., With company E, 101st Infantry, in the world war. (search)
re ready to go up into the front lines. About 9.00 P. M. we left Rouge Maison and hiked over shell-torn ground, through battered trenches and sticky clay mud which stuck to our boots until we could hardly drag one foot after the other. About midnight we relieved a company of French soldiers and took our post in a small rifle pit, a trench about eight feet long and four feet deep, with an improvised dugout where two or three could sleep. Our position was at the foot of a hill with the Aisne river in front and on the other side was the German lines. After about seven days in the first line we were relieved by another battalion of our regiment and we went back to the second line at Froidmont. From there we went to the third line at Soupir. While we were holding the first line there was a raid pulled on the Germans which was the first successful American raid to be made. Our men captured twenty men and two officers. They were caught in a relief and taken by surprise. Edward