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Definition of Sambre river

1. Noun. A river in western Europe that rises in northern France and flows generally east into Belgium where it joins the Meuse at Namur.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sambre River

Literary usage of Sambre river

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Story of the Gallic War by Julius Caesar, John Remsen Bishop, T. T. Jones (1916)
"... is said to be of the nature of an appositive, as if to say, that the Sambre river was distant ten miles, not more;—trans id flumen: See page 91. ..."

2. Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in by Douglas Wilson Johnson (1921)
"... deposits in Lorraine plain, 455 Saloniki, 577, 584, 599; entrenched camp, 597; natural defenses (map), 598 Sambre, Battle of the, 213 sambre river. ..."

3. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1840)
"... thus given in tin- • •'' ments published by the government ' France):— Kiveri. Aa . Lys . .Lawe Escaut Scarpe sambre river navigation M."- 19 3J I .i.; ..."

4. Cavalry in the Waterloo Campaign by Evelyn Wood (1895)
"THE FRENCH CAVALRY LEADERS, AND HOW THEY CROSSED THE sambre river. MARSHAL MARMONT, in his ' De 1'Esprit des Institutions de Militaires/ points out the ..."

5. Story of the Gallic War by Julius Caesar, John Remsen Bishop, T. T. Jones (1916)
"... is said to be of the nature of an appositive, as if to say, that the Sambre river was distant ten miles, not more;—trans id flumen: See page 91. ..."

6. Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in by Douglas Wilson Johnson (1921)
"... deposits in Lorraine plain, 455 Saloniki, 577, 584, 599; entrenched camp, 597; natural defenses (map), 598 Sambre, Battle of the, 213 sambre river. ..."

7. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1840)
"... thus given in tin- • •'' ments published by the government ' France):— Kiveri. Aa . Lys . .Lawe Escaut Scarpe sambre river navigation M."- 19 3J I .i.; ..."

8. Cavalry in the Waterloo Campaign by Evelyn Wood (1895)
"THE FRENCH CAVALRY LEADERS, AND HOW THEY CROSSED THE sambre river. MARSHAL MARMONT, in his ' De 1'Esprit des Institutions de Militaires/ points out the ..."

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