Wayside Cross at Grivesnes.
Continue along G.C. 26 to Cantigny.
The village and its surroundings were attacked by the Germans at the end of March 1918. Sharp fighting occurred there on the night of the 29th and the whole of the following day. Cantigny fell in the evening of the 30th. On April 4 and 5, a counter-attack in this region by the French 45th Division, drove back the enemy and gave the French the northern and western outskirts of the village, which they were, however, unable to hold. On May 28, the American 1st Division, supported by a regiment of the French 60th Division and a group of tanks, brilliantly carried the village and salient of Cantigny along a 2 kms. front, capturing 170 prisoners and a large quantity of stores.
The American Attack on Cantigny,
May 28, 1918. (See p. 39.)
Cantigny Entrance to the Chateau Park.
The village was razed to the ground. The ruins of the church and Château may be reached by taking the street on the left, in the middle of the village.