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Definition of Fontenoy
1. 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.
Generic synonyms: Pitched Battle
Group relationships: War Of The Austrian Succession
Geographical relationships: Belgique, Belgium, Kingdom Of Belgium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fontenoy
Literary usage of Fontenoy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Every Day in the Year: A Poetical Epitome of the World's History by James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford (1902)
"Thrice at the huts of fontenoy the English column failed, And twice the lines of St.
Antoine ... Betwixt the wood and fontenoy, as though a furnace blast, ..."
2. The Early Hanoverians by Edward Ellis Morris (1886)
"During all the battle of fontenoy the general was carried about the field in a
litter of basket-work, for he could not sit on horseback. ..."
3. Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainments: And for the Use of edited by Robert McLean Cumnock (1898)
"Thrice, at the huts of fontenoy, the English column failed, And, twice, the lines
of Saint Antoine ... On fontenoy, on fontenoy, how fast his generals ride! ..."
4. The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918 (1918)
"And fontenoy, famed fontenoy, had been a Waterloo, Had not these exiles ready
... On fontenoy, on fontenoy, nor ever yet elsewhere, Rushed on to fight a ..."
5. The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics by Charles Welsh (1907)
"fontenoy' THRICE at the huts of fontenoy the English column failed, And twice
the lines of Saint Antoine the Dutch in vain assailed; For town and slope were ..."
6. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline & Fall of the by William Russell, Charles Coote (1822)
"The Dutch, having failed in an attack upon fontenoy, which valour might have
rendered successful, had shamefully left the field. An English and Hanoverian ..."
7. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1897)
"TWO DESPATCHES RELATIVE TO THE BATTLE OF fontenoy. AMONG the various accounts of
the battle of fontenoy by eyewitnesses there are two which deserve ..."
8. History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles by Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope (1853)
"Abat- tis were constructed in the wood of Barre'; redoubts between Antoin and
fontenoy; and the villages themselves had been carefully ..."
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