Longueval
a town in northern France, department of the Somme. The population before the World War was 363. The scene of heavy fighting at different periods in the great cor conflict.
On July 14, 1916, when the battle of the Somme began, the British carried the village and trenches around it with a rush, but fighting was prolonged among the houses as the Germans refused to give or take quarter. The attack was carried out by the 26th Brigade, 8th Black Watch and the 10th Argyle and Sutherlands in the lead. During July Longueval was continually fought over and the Germans finally regained possession.
LONNROT at whose instance the dukes of Longueville were allowed the title of princes of the blood royal by Charles IX., died 1571. HENRY, who commanded against the leaguers, and in 1589 won the battle of Senlis, died 1595. His son, of the same name, served under Louis XIII., and was afterward imprisoned with Condé and Conti, as partisans of the Fronde, died 1663. The wife of the latter, ANNE GENEVIEVE, sister of the great Condé, distinguished for her part in the wars of the Fronde, died in religious retirement. The last of the family were two sons of Henry and Anne, the eldest of whom died in a convent, 1694; and the second, C. PARIS, was killed at the Rhine, 1672.