Argentan

But in a local book, in which a great deal of information about Argentan is brought together, _Le Vieil Argentan_, by M. Eugène Vimont, it is distinctly asserted that the case is the other way.

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

They had been but a few days settled in Argentan, when this wretched woman sent word to the lieutenant's son that he was the most wicked of men, and that she was not ignorant that he publicly maligned her and the prelate; but that she would yet find means to make him repent of this.

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

Attached to the 80th Infantry Division on 8 August, operated in Argentan-Bordeaux area during closure of Falaise Gap.

Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

It seems from where I sit that Ike later gave Monty too much latitude, especially in setting the boundaries between the British and American army groups at Falaise and Argentan in August of 1944.

General Ike John S.D. Eisenhower 2003

Anglo-Canadian forces, meanwhile, would pivot toward Falaise and Argentan.

Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

Patton drove eastward and then First Army, on his left, turned north and nearly closed the gap between Falaise and Argentan, south of Caen, resulting in the deadly killing ground known as the Falaise Pocket.

General Ike John S.D. Eisenhower 2003

But on 13 August, SHAEF ordered the 90th Infantry and French 2d Armored divisions to stop in Argentan and wait for Montgomery's troops, who were pushing south to close the gap; the rest of XV Corps was ordered to turn east toward Paris.

Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

When his spearheads were a hundred miles from the Paris–Orléans gap, he turned one corps northward to Argentan, there to form the southern shoulder of the “Falaise Gap,” so murderous to the German army.

General Ike John S.D. Eisenhower 2003

August, Patton ordered XV Corps, which had captured Le Mans seventy miles to the rear and southeast of the enemy's Mortain line, to attack north across the German rear toward Argentan and Falaise. 47

Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

Jamie had pulled a muscle in his thigh during the rescue at Argentan, and was limping badly by the time we returned to Paris.

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992