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Soissons

a city in N France, on the Aisne River: has Roman remains and an 11th-century abbey. Pop.: 29 453 (1999)
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Soissons

 

a city in northern France, in the department of Aisne; situated on the Aisne River. Population, 28,000 (1968). Soissons has machine-building, metalworking, chemical, and rubber industries.

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This is the case of manuscript 132 from the municipal library in Soissons (11) (figure 6), which contains the Chronicle of Hugh of Saint Victor, compiled year by year.
The old abbey church dedicated to the Virgin Mary--of which no architectural evidence or textual description remains--seems to have become very prominent in the regional religious scene in September of 1128, when there was an outbreak of ergotism or "holy fire" in Soissons. (9) This wasting disease, caused by fungal growth in rye and recurring sporadically throughout the Middle Ages, has captured the attention of modern epidemiologists as well as historians.
Soissons, 1918 is a significant reassessment of the American effort on the Western Front.
Bullard; led the brigade in action at the Second Marne (July 15-17) and the Soissons counterattack (July 18-19); promoted to temporary major general (August 1918) and given command of the 4th Division, leading that unit during the Saint-Mihiel (September 12-16) and the Meuse-Argonne offensives (September 26-November 11); replaced Bullard as III Corps commander (October) and remained at that position until the corps was deactivated (July 1919); received promotion to permanent brigadier general (November 1918); commanded the 4th and 5th Divisions (1919-1921); promoted to major general (March 1921); served as chief of staff of the U.S.
Michelin says that the redundancies at the Wolber-Michelin cycle tyre factory in Soissons are necessary for restructuring purposes.
Soissons, 1918 has all the detail that passionate historians could ask for, but it has something more going for it: Added to the scholarly prose of historian Douglas Johnson is the down-to-earth writing of the late Rolfe Hillman, Jr., who retired from active duty as an Army colonel in 1972.
Principal battles: The Frontiers (between Belgium and France), Guise, the Marne, Picardy (1914); Soissons (1915).
Private Lupo, a member of the 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, was killed in action in 1918 in the French-American attack on the Germans near Soissons, which became known as the Second Battle of the Marne.
Principal battles: Belleau Wood (near Chateau-Thierry), Soissons (1918).
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