Saint-Mihiel

Saint-Mihiel
Saint-Mi·hiel (sānt-mē-yĕlʹ, săɴ-)
A village of northeast France on the Meuse River east of Paris. The World War I battle here (September 12-14, 1918) was the first major American offensive led by Gen. John J. Pershing and forced the Germans to relinquish a salient held since 1914.

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France
      town, Meuse département, Lorraine région, northeastern France. It lies on the right bank of the Meuse River, 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Verdun. The town grew around a Benedictine abbey, founded in 709. The abbey buildings (17th- and 18th-century) are now occupied mainly by a school and a library. The Churches of Saint-Michel and Saint-Étienne have works by the 16th-century sculptor Ligier Richier, who was a native of the town.

      Though less important than the great fortress of Verdun, Saint-Mihiel was historically one of the fortified towns guarding the strategic line of the Meuse River on the approach to the Paris Basin from the east. The town was captured by the Germans in September 1914, at the beginning of World War I, and it was not retaken by the Allies until September 1918, in an offensive in which American troops under General John J. Pershing played an important role; this was the first major offensive by the U.S. Army in France. Pop. (1999) 5,215; (2007 est.) 4,816.

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