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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • 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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  • noun a battle in the Meuse-Argonne operation in World War I (1918); the battle in which American troops launched their first offensive in France

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Examples

  • No sooner had Pershing disengaged his forces from the Saint-Mihiel battle than he mounted a final American offensive to punch like a battering ram through German lines on the Western Front between the Meuse River and the dense Argonne Forest with more than a million men.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • No sooner had Pershing disengaged his forces from the Saint-Mihiel battle than he mounted a final American offensive to punch like a battering ram through German lines on the Western Front between the Meuse River and the dense Argonne Forest with more than a million men.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • My nephew was killed on the 18th of the following September, 1918, at Saint-Mihiel.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • The attack was part of the huge American-led offensive around Saint-Mihiel, France, that came as allied forces battered the German army in the closing months of the war.

    WWI soldier buried at Arlington, 91 years after he died during battle in France 2010

  • Rising rapidly, he rocketed to brigadier general and directed the Allied air effort supporting the huge Saint-Mihiel offensive in September 1918.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • My nephew was killed on the 18th of the following September, 1918, at Saint-Mihiel.

    The Remembrance Ceremony Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • The attack was part of the huge American-led offensive around Saint-Mihiel, France, that came as allied forces battered the German army in the closing months of the war.

    WWI soldier buried at Arlington, 91 years after he died during battle in France 2010

  • Rising rapidly, he rocketed to brigadier general and directed the Allied air effort supporting the huge Saint-Mihiel offensive in September 1918.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • The attack was part of the huge American-led offensive around Saint-Mihiel, France, that came as allied forces battered the German army in the closing months of the war.

    WWI soldier buried at Arlington, 91 years after he died during battle in France 2010

  • Those who did told stories of places like Belleau Wood, Soissons, Château-Thierry, Saint-Mihiel.

    Devil Dog David Talbot 2010

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