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LEFT CHATEAU-THIERRY 439 CHATHAM tack against the American position at Jaulgonne and Dormans. Twenty-five thousand of the choicest of the German troops were hurled across the Marne. The American front was held by the 1st, 2d, 3d and 26th Divisions, with the 4th and 28th Divisions in support. Under the first fury of the assault, the Ameri- can line was pushed back, but it promptly rallied and threw the Germans back across the Marne with tremendous losses. front of the 3d Division sector except the dead." "On this occasion," writes General Pershing in his official report, "a single regiment of the 3d Division wrote one of the most brilliant pages in our mili- tary annals. It prevented the crossing at certain points on its front, while on either flank the Germans, who had gained a footing pressed forward. Our men, firing in three directions, met the Ger- HOTEL DE VILLE, CHATEAU-THIERRY A paragraph from the report of the commanding General of the 3d Division thus summarized the result of the fight- ing on his front: "Although the rush of the German troops overwhelmed some of the front line positions, causing the infantry and machine gun companies to suffer in some cases a 50 per cent, loss, no German soldier crossed the line from Fossoy to Crezancy except as a prisoner of war, and by noon of the following day (July 16) there were no Germans in the fore- man attacks with counter-attacks at crit- ical points, and succeeded in throwing two German divisions into complete con- fusion, capturing 600 prisoners." CHATELAINE, the wife of the chatelain or Castellan, the commander of a feudal castle. CHATHAM (chat'am), a parliamen- tary borough, naval arsenal, and port of England, county Kent, on the Medway, about 34% miles by rail from London. The importance of Chatham is due to the