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Wagram

noun

A town in northeastern Austria.

A battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809); Napoleon defeated the Austrians. Synonym: battle of Wagram.

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"Wagram" Quotes from Famous Books

... drove to the Rue de Rivoli, where the lady alighted and entered the Hotel Wagram, while he went along to the Hotel du Louvre," was ...

— The Stretton Street Affair • William Le Queux

... of an hour of horrible misgiving. He saw the mad panic of the first Bull Run. He led the only compact body of troops off that fatal field himself. It was his own brigade. In his first-fought field, he showed the unshakable nerve of Macdonald at Wagram. But he has also seen the fruits of the wild stampede of McCook and Crittenden's divisions since at Chickamauga. It tore the laurels from Rosecrans' brow. Is this to be a panic? Rosecrans' defeat made Sherman the field-marshal of ...

— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage

... fearful rein and ride, Though twice ten thousand men have died On this eventful day To gild the military fame Which thou, for life, in traffic tame Wilt barter thus away. Shall future ages tell this tale Of inconsistence faint and frail? And art thou He of Lodi's bridge, Marengo's field, and Wagram's ridge! Or is thy soul like mountain-tide, That, swelled by winter storm and shower, Rolls down in turbulence of power, A torrent fierce and wide; Reft of these aids, a rill obscure, Shrinking unnoticed, mean and poor, Whose channel shows displayed The wrecks of its impetuous course, ...

— Some Poems by Sir Walter Scott • Sir Walter Scott

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