"Hamel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... along the lower Ancre from Amiens to Albert. Failing in this, they struck heavily in the angle between the Somme and the Ancre in order to flank the line north of Albert from the high ground north-east of Corbie. Here also they met with defeat, so that from Beaumont-Hamel southward the Allied line ...
— World's War Events, Volume III • Various
... and the Battery took up a position on the southern outskirts of Hebuterne, overlooking the enemy stronghold at Serre. This portion of the front was now in a normal state once more, as, on the opening day of the great battle, the British assault from Hamel, northward to Gommecourt, had met with no success, and the attack was not further pressed. The enemy was content to remain quiet, and most of the firing was carried out by us. A considerable number of hostile "Minnies" made conditions ...
— Three years in France with the Guns: - Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery • C. A. Rose
... has been proposed, that the Air in Ships of War should be purified in this Way both by Dr. Lind and by Mons. de Hamel de Monceau. ...
— An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany • Donald Monro
... the town of Hamel in Germany was invaded by bands of rats, the like of which had never been seen before nor will ...
— The Red Fairy Book • Various |
