Aisne is a French department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It is named after the river Aisne.
Marne is a department in the Grand Est region of France. It is named after the river Marne which flows through it. The prefecture (capital) of Marne is Châlons-en-Champagne. The subprefectures are Épernay, Reims, and Vitry-le-François.
Haute-Marne is a department in the Grand Est region of Northeastern France. Named after the Marne River, its prefecture is Chaumont. In 2016, it had a population of 178,084.
Val-de-Marne is a French department, named after the Marne River, located in the Île-de-France region. The department is situated to the southeast of the city of Paris and in the Grand Paris. The population is sightly larger than Estonia.
Château-Thierry is a French commune situated in the department of the Aisne, in the administrative region of Hauts-de-France and in the historic Province of Champagne.
The 369th Infantry Regiment, formerly known as the 15th New York National Guard Regiment and commonly referred to as the Harlem Hellfighters, was an infantry regiment of the New York Army National Guard during World War I and World War II. The regiment consisted mainly of African Americans, though it also included several Puerto Rican Americans during World War II. With the 369th Infantry Regiment, it was known for being one of the first African-American regiments to serve with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I.
Meaux is a commune on the Marne River in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is 41.1 km (25.5 mi) east-northeast of the center of Paris.
Les Authieux-sur-Calonne is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.
Sillery is a commune in the north-eastern French department of Marne.
Vitry-le-François is a commune in the Marne department in northeastern France. It is located on the Marne River and is the western terminus of the Marne–Rhine Canal.
Saint-Venant is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
Azy-sur-Marne is a commune in the department of Aisne in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France.
Juillac is a commune in the Corrèze department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southern France. From 1790 to 2015, the municipality was the capital of the canton of Juillac.
Dormans is a commune located in the Marne department and in the Grand Est region of France.
Marfaux is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.
Suippes is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. It was part of the so-called la Champagne pouilleuse, a region battered by conflict during World War I. In the early months of the war, British soldiers were deployed here and were to march to Châlons-sur-Marne to fight the First Battle of the Marne. In October 1918, the United States also deployed a brigade in the area and was assigned as Fourth French Army reserve. The commune was pillaged and razed by the Germans in the same way they attacked Heiltz-le-Maurupt, Marfaux, Fromentieres, and Esternay.
Romain is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.
Baron is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.
Meuse is a department in northeast France, named after the River Meuse. Meuse is part of the current region of Grand Est and is surrounded by the French departments of Ardennes, Marne, Haute-Marne, Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle, and it shares the small portion of the border with the Belgian Province of Luxembourg on the north. Parts of Meuse belong to Parc naturel régional de Lorraine. Front lines in trench warfare during World War I ran varying courses through the department and it hosted an important battle/offensive in 1916 in and around Verdun.
The Harlem Hellfighters is a graphic novel written by author Max Brooks with illustrations done by Caanan White. It is a fictionalized account of the experiences of the largely African American 369th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the "Hell-fighters" by German soldiers, during the First World War.
