Rues de la Bataille et des Chasseurs Alpins

No less than fourteen streets in the two communes recall the day of 19 August 1914. Those of the Battle and the Alpine Chasseurs are located at the foot of the Geissberg, the hill where the French 97th RIA suffered its heaviest losses. It was in fact an Alpine infantry regiment, not an Alpine chasseur regiment. The thousand men of its 1st battalion did not wear kepi but berets (like the chasseurs), hence the confusion.