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Wagram

noun
1.
A town in northeastern Austria.
2.
A battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809); Napoleon defeated the Austrians.  Synonym: battle of Wagram.





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"Wagram" Quotes from Famous Books



... three or four old soldiers of the Empire had each undertaken to write the life of Napoleon from memory. It is clear that their narratives would contain numerous errors, and great discordances. One of them would place Wagram before Marengo: another would write without hesitation that Napoleon drove the government of Robespierre from the Tuileries; a third would omit expeditions of the highest importance. But one thing would certainly result with a great degree of truthfulness from ...
— The Life of Jesus • Ernest Renan
... news of the battle,[65] but long enough for him to clear several millions from off the panicky state of the money market. Marshal Massena, one of Napoleon's bravest generals, the defender of Genoa and the hero of Wagram, was of ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino
... causes (Du Cases, tome i. p. 322). Bernadotte was equally unfortunate in putting in his appearance too late at Eylan (see Due de Rovigo's Memoirs, tome ii. p. 48), and also incurred the displeasure of Napoleon at Wagram (see ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... truth; but people repeat the story, just as they repeat that Napoleon I. was a great chess-player. If his statecraft and his strategy had been on a par with his chess, we should never have heard of Tilsit or Wagram. ...
— Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General - Originally Published In Blackwood's Magazine - 1864 • Charles Lever


Words linked to "Wagram" :   Austria, town, Oesterreich, pitched battle, battle of Wagram, Napoleonic Wars, Republic of Austria


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