Wagram
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- proper noun
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Examples
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With an alien feminine smile on his face, which was covered with a beard, young Opujic had crossed Europe, first as a boy with his father and later on his own in the French cavalry, traveling from Trieste, Venice, and the Danube to Wagram and Leipzig, and had grown up in French military camps, seeing a war every decade.
Fiction book (1998) -
After winning the Battle of Wagram in July, Napoleon forced Vienna to make new major territorial concessions.
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A considerable amount of the armies that swept Europe at Austerlitz, Jena, Friedland, and Wagram were recruited in Italy.
Blog text (10) -
The artifacts Martinon-Torres studied are from Schloss Oberstockstall, a castle in Kirchberg am Wagram in Lower Austria, about 30 miles from Vienna, where in 1980 archaeologists discovered the best-preserved Renaissance laboratory ever found.
Academic text (2004) -
The Austrians declared war on France once more in 1809, but were dispatched at the Battle of Wagram and signed yet another peace treaty.
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With the Old Guard left in Spain, Larrey found himself ministering to the needs of a newly created Young Guard at the battles of Wagram.
Synonyms
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A major 1809 battle where Napoleon defeats the Austrian army near Wagram
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Etymology
The word Wagram is the name of a village near Vienna. The famous 1809 battle in the Napoleonic Wars is called the Battle of Wagram because it was fought there, so the place name now stands for that important military victory.