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mtncorg Says: Running parallel to the St Quentin-Cambrai highway, the Canal de St Quentin disappears into a 3.5 Km tunnel that dates to the time of Napoleon I. During the latter stages of WWI, the tunnel - which had been dried up and used as an underground haven for hospitals, barracks,...
mtncorg Says: Montmirail is a small town on the road from Paris to Chalons-en-Champagne. Two monuments can be found across from each other on that road – D 933 – just west of town. Each monument is related to one of Napoleon’s last victories, achieved on 11-12 February 1814 – he had...
mtncorg Says: Craonne is a little village on the eastern end of the Chemin des Dames, a road built by Louis XV for his daughters. It was here 5 March 1814 that Napoleon won one of his last victories. A much larger Prussian-led Coalition army under Blucher was advancing upon Paris when...
mtncorg Says: Varennes is a pretty little village lying on the Aire River along the eastern edge of the Argonnes Forest. The town was the scene of battle in the early period of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918 and a large monument was erected by the State of Pennsylvania in...
mtncorg Says: Not only were French revolutionaries present on the field at Valmy, but so was Don Francisco de Miranda, one of Kellerman’s important subordinates who served with distinction on 20 September 1792. Miranda would go on to prime the way for Simon Bolivar’s eventual success in...
mtncorg Says: A short distance from the windmill is the 1892 monument dedicated to General Kellerman. He rallied his untried troops that day with the cry, “Vive la Nation!” In front of the monument is a pyramid within which lies Kellerman’s heart, placed here after his death in 1820....
mtncorg Says: A short distance from the windmill is the 1892 monument dedicated to General Kellerman. He rallied his untried troops that day with the cry, “Vive la Nation!” In front of the monument is a pyramid within which lies Kellerman’s heart, placed here after his death in 1820....
mtncorg Says: The windmill – Moulin – was the site around which Kellerman placed his artillery whose accurate fire was to influence the Austro-Prussian army to not launch a full-scale attack on the French. Local community efforts helped rebuild the windmill after it had been destroyed by...
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The windmill – Moulin – was the site around which Kellerman placed his artillery whose accurate fire was to influence the Austro-Prussian army to not launch a...
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VALMY – BIRTHPLACE OF THE FIRST REPUBLIC OF FRANCE
On the eastern edge of the Champagne, just west of the Argonne Forest stands the rebuilt windmill on the battlefield of Valmy. You can see it from the Strasbourg TGV or the Auto route Est. As far as...
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