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Valmy

noun
1.
The French defeated the Austrian and Prussian troops in 1792 (with a famous cannonade from the French artillery).  Synonym: battle of Valmy.





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"Valmy" Quotes from Famous Books



... a way of defying military precedent. The ragged armies of the French Revolution are not forgotten-Valmy and the Lines of Weissembourg. Massed against the Soviet forces were yunkers, Cossacks, land-owners, nobility, Black Hundreds-the Tsar come again, Okhrana and Siberian chains; and the vast and terrible menace of the Germans.... Victory, in the words of Carlyle, meant ...
— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed


Words linked to "Valmy" :   pitched battle, France, French Republic, battle of Valmy


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