[Illustration: BROTHERS-IN-ARMS. FRENCH AND AMERICAN SOLDIERS HELPING A WOUNDED FRENCHMAN NEAR LONGPONT.]
_After visiting Longpont and the Abbey continue along the street by which the square was reached; cross the bridge in the direction of_ =Chaudun=, _keeping to the G. C. 17_. Below the road are the ruins of La Grange Farm. The table-land near the top of the hill, on the right, served as an aviation park during the War. In May, 1919, the remains of twenty burnt aeroplanes were still to be seen there.
_At the fork take the right-hand road_ (_I. C. 30_). Here the road was crossed by wire entanglements and trenches. Fierce fighting took place over the whole of this tableland. On the left is =Beaurepaire Farm=, which was little damaged.
[Illustration: GERMAN 77MM. GUN ABANDONED NEAR CHAUDUN, WITH HEAP OF WICKER BASKETS, EACH CONTAINING THREE SHELLS.]
[Illustration: BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENT IN FRONT OF CHAUDUN DURING THE BATTLE OF JULY.
At the crossing where Beaurepaire Farm stands, a road branches off on the right towards =Vierzy=, situated rather less than two miles away at the bottom of a small valley. The Americans (2nd Division) had some fierce fighting at Beaurepaire Farm and Vierzy. _If not pressed for time, the tourist should visit Vierzy, returning thence to Beaurepaire Farm and continuing to_ Chaudun (I. C. 30).
On the right of the road is Maisonneuve Farm in ruins (photo below).
On arriving at =Chaudun=, which was badly damaged, _turn to the left in the village_. On the right of the street leading to the small square is the entrance to the cemetery, from where there is a good view of the ruined church.
[Illustration: AMERICAN SOLDIERS AT MAISONNEUVE FARM.]
[Illustration: RUINS OF CHAUDUN CHURCH, SEEN FROM THE CEMETERY.]
_After visiting the church, return to the above mentioned._
_Turn to the right, and on leaving the village, to the left, in the direction of_ Cravançon Farm, which was completely destroyed. All around, the trees have been stripped of their branches or torn down by shell fire. Several lines of barbed wire entanglements enclose the farm. A little further on is a crossing with N. 2, known as the “=Croix-de-Fer=” (“Iron Cross”). The fighting around here was extremely bitter. At the time of General Mangin’s great offensive, hundreds of tanks attacked the table-land.