Jemappes
Americannoun
noun
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La Bonne Bière had its own flower-and-candle memorial, and its own crowd of mourners and onlookers, which began to roil and shift as a small group, circled by media, broke off and made for the Quai de Jemappes.
From The New Yorker
The blowing up of the Jemappes bridge gave a lot of trouble.
From Project Gutenberg
To the left of the R. Fusiliers, were the R. Scots Fusiliers, and beyond them again half the Northumberland Fusiliers reaching as far as Jemappes.
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The three brigades of this latter division, after putting up a heroic defence and suffering very severe casualties, got the order to retire at 3 p.m., whereupon the R. Fusiliers fell slowly back through Mons to Hyon, and the R. Scots Fusiliers, who had put up a great fight at Jemappes, through Flénu.
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On the 6th of November he won the first great victory of the war at Jemappes near Mons and, this time advancing boldly, he overran the whole country from Namur to Antwerp within a month.
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