Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-10-02
National Geographic Society s
War Primer
National Geographic Society prepared
concerning places that figuring prominently
OF military operations the European
NUMBER IS

ATTIGNY-An ancient and once
celebrated town of France, on the lett
bank of the River Aisne, % miles
southwest of Mezieres and 10 miles
east of Rethel. Chilperic H. died here
in 72O. In % the famous council AZ
which Louis l performed public pen
nance in expiation of the murder Of
his nephew, Bernard, King of Italy,
was held here. Bernard had melted
6 revolt, but the rising was easily sup
pressed and he was mutilated and kill
ed Louis repented of this cruelty,
and after the death of his wife he
pardoned the followers of Bernhard
and restored their estates. The pres
ent town has a population of about
5000
PIERREFONDS-A village on a lake
at the southern border of the forest
of the town of Compiegne, France.
While the town is much frequentel fo.'
the sake of its baths, supplied by min
eral springs, it's chief interest is
centered in it's feudal castle rising
high above the houses of the village.
The stronghold was almost entirely
rebuilt for Napoleon III. at a cost of
| about $1,000,000. 1t was originally 3
fort built by Louis de'Orleans in 1890.
Having aroused the jealousy of Richie
| lieu, as the stronghold of Fronde, it
was almost battered to pieces by his
orders in 1917. The town now has a
population of about 1000.
LIE TREMBLOIS-As small town OF
northern France, west of Mezierrns
and close to the Belgian frontier, ad-
jacent to the battlefield where the
Grande Condo, at the age of %, gain
ed the greatest of his victories over
the Spanish in 1913. The plain was
formerly surrounded by marshes and
dense forests, but modern drainage has
abolished the former and the latter
have been cut down. The army OPP
posed to Condo was composed of vet
sran bands of Walloons, Spaniards AMI
Italians, commanded by the Spanish
General Fuentes, who conducted the
battle from a litter. He was after
wards found among the slain. During
the Franco-German war, a division of
| German landwehr occupied this region
and, during a thick fog on January 3,
1871, surrounded the neighboring town
of Rocroi and caused it's 800 defend
ers to surrender after a five hours
bombardment.
VARENNES-EN-ARGONNE-A little
town on the Aire River in northeast
France, Is miles northwest of Verdun,
owing its claim to fame to the fact
that Louis XVI was arrested here Ovl
his flight from Paris in June, 1891. He
was taken back to the capital and
maintained as a constitutional king
The town has about $500 inhabitants
and manufactures leather and paper
goods.
STETTIN-A German seaport, on
the Oder River. 80 miles from the Bal
tic Sea and 81 miles northeast of Ber-
lin. Extensive and strong fortifca-
lions girdled the town until 1914
when expansion of its commerce AMI
manufactures compelled the tearina
down of these barriers to its growth
From population of 99,475 in 1885
| Stettin grew to a city with 236,145 il
| 1910. Warships and other vessels a
all kinds, locomotives, boilers ant
machinery are made in great estab.
lishments, while the city manufactures
clothing, cement, bricks, soap, paper
teer, sugar, spirits and cycles. The
city is unique in the number of in
surance companies which have then
headquarters there. The town is sale
to have existed in the 9th century: II
1906 the city yielded to France VITA
out any resistance and was held b
the French until 1918.
CZENSTOCHOWA-A fortified tow
of Poland, so miles south of southeas
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