Jemappes

[ French zhuh-map ]

noun

1. a town in SW Belgium, near Mons: French victory over Austrians 1792.

Jemappes

/ ʒəmap /

noun

1. a town in SW Belgium, in Hainaut province west of Mons: scene of a battle (1792) during the French Revolutionary Wars, in which the French defeated the Austrians

Example Sentences

No opposition was made, and the prince marching rapidly to the plateau of Jemappes, invested Mons on the French side.

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His son as a young man had served in the revolutionary army and had been one of its leaders in the important victory of Jemappes.

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We were actually beaten before we fought; we were ruined at Vienna before a shot was fired at Jemappes.

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That which marched against Mons fled as soon as they came in sight of the Austrians near Jemappes.

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Dumouriez, following them, won the battle of Jemappes (November 6), and overran Belgium.

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