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Battle of Fontenoy

noun

A battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland. Synonym: Fontenoy.

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... charitable lady, who distributed alms not only to the poor of her own parish, Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, but to the unfortunate of other quarters. Her husband, Roch-Eustache-Jeremie, Count of Grenouillere, had fallen gloriously at the battle of Fontenoy, on the 11th of May, 1745. The noble widow had long mourned for him, and even now at times wept over his death. Left without children, and almost entirely alone in the world, she gave herself up to a strange fancy,—a fancy, it is true, which in no manner detracted from her real virtues ...

— The Story of a Cat • mile Gigault de La Bdollire

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Words linked to "Battle of Fontenoy" : War of the Austrian Succession, pitched battle, Belgium, Kingdom of Belgium, Belgique