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Society of the First Division, History of the First Division During the World War (1922), p. 103: the First Division's front at Soissons. The 20th Corps assault southwest of Soissons and the First Division's front of about twenty-eight hundred meters.

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The main force of the assault was to be made by the 20th

Corps, whose zone of action included a succession of exceed-

ingly strong positions southwest of Soissons.⁶ The front

assigned to the First Division on the left of the Corps covered

about twenty-eight hundred meters.

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