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  • Behind Grand-Pre, for example, Grand-Pre which is on the wrong-side of the Argonne, for we are now forced and rounded, -- the full heart, in one of those wheelings and shewings of new front, did as it were overset itself, as full hearts are liable to do; and there rose a shriek of sauve qui peut, and a death-panic which had nigh ruined all!

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • LetsRoll911. org, citing de Grand-Pre, identifies the pilot: “Major Rick Gibney fired two Sidewinder missiles at the aircraft and destroyed it in midflight at precisely 0958.”

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  • LetsRoll911.org, citing de Grand-Pre, identifies the pilot: “Major Rick Gibney fired two Sidewinder missiles at the aircraft and destroyed it in midflight at precisely 0958.”

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  • Grand-Pre -- handsome little boys and girls, the kind with which Raphael frames his Madonnas.

    The Greater Love George T. McCarthy

  • The general announced, moreover, in the confidence of his sublime ignorance, that a column of one hundred thousand men was on the way from Grand-Pre to attack them, while another, of sixty thousand, was coming up by the way of Sainte-Menehould.

    The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

  • Therefore he had sent out the 4th hussars to reconnoiter the country as far as the defiles of Grand-Pre and Croix-aux-Bois, with strict orders not to return without intelligence.

    The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

  • Grand-Pre road, extending straight away to a seemingly infinite distance between two rows of handsome trees.

    The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

  • Grand-Pre was a matter of surprise, considering the distances.

    The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

  • Two hours later a courier came galloping in, breathless with terror, to announce that General Bordas had positive information that the enemy were on the Vouziers road, and dared not leave Grand-Pre.

    The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

  • The rumor spread that General Bordas had sent in a courier to announce that he had encountered the enemy in force at Grand-Pre and had been compelled to fall back on Buzancy, which gave cause to apprehend that he might soon be cut off from retreat on Vouziers.

    The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

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