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

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No 1. Les Flandres

- 2. Artois, Picardie

- 3. Aisne & Oise

- 4. Argonne — Côte de Meuse

- 5. Lorraine

- 6. Vosges et Alsace

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A region and départment of France through which flows the Rivers Marne, Aisne, and Vesle. The principal city is Reims with its great cathedral. The region was one of the primary French battlegrounds of the war.

After their defeat on the Marne, German forces retreated to the Aisne River in the Race to the Sea. The First Battle of the Aisne was fought in 1914.

Trying to break through the German line, and testing its strength, the French attacked repeatedly in the First Battle of Champagne from December 20, 1914 to March 17, 1915. This included a German counter-offensive in January at Soissons in the Aisne départment to the west.

The Second Battle of Champagne, was the major French offensive in the great Franco-British offensive in Champagne and Artois in autumn 1915.

The Second Battle of the Aisne along Chemin des Dames was the largest and final assault of General Robert Nivelle's disastrous offensive in the spring of 1917.

In their great advance of 1918, German forces launched the Aisne Offensive, the third of five German drives in 1918.

In July, 1918, Marshall Foch launched the Franco-American Aisne Offensive.

Champagne is a region in France.

Some books about Champagne (2)

Title	Author Last Name	Author First Name
The Memoirs of Marshal Foch, translated by Col. T. Bentley Mott	Foch	Ferdinand
The First Hundred Thousand; Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K (1)"	Hay	Ian