Western Front: Aisne & Oise. French folding postcard map of the Aisne and Oise, number 3 from the series Les Cartes du Front. The map includes the Champagne front from Compiègne in the west to Chalons-sur-Marne in the east including Soissons, Chemin des Dammes, Laon, Reims, and Château Thierry.

Les Cartes du Front

No. 3 — Aisne & Oise

Maps of the Front

Aisne & Oise

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Les Cartes du Front

tirées en 5 couleurs

Format Dble. Carte-Postale

No 1. Les Flandres

- 2. Artois, Picardie

- 3. Aisne & Oise

- 4. Argonne — Côte de Meuse

- 5. Lorraine

- 6. Vosges et Alsace

A. Hatier. Editeur.8.Rue d'Assas, Paris.

Outer front:

Correspondence of the Armies

Military Franchise

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Soissons, France is on the Aisne River, at the western end of the Chemin des Dames, the Ladies' Road. It was a rail hub and an important supply center.

The city was attacked in January 12-15, 1915, but not captured, by General von Lochow. The French had attempted to 'improve their position' on January 7, 1915 on the north bank of the Aisne. A flood carried off the French bridges. In their counter-offensive of January 12 through 15, the Germans took over 5,000 French prisoners and 35 guns.

Soissons was taken by the Germans on May 28, 1918, during the Aisne Offensive, the third of the German Drives of 1918.

Soissons is a city in France.