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Canrobert

American  
[kahn-raw-ber] / kɑ̃ rɔˈbɛr /

noun

  1. François Certain 1809–95, French marshal.


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For whatever good it might do, Adhemar was careful to drop in on War Minister Canrobert Pereira da Costa and Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes, both presidential possibilities themselves.

From Time Magazine Archive

The two guests of honor, General Canrobert Pereira da Costa, Brazil's war minister, and Lieut.

From Time Magazine Archive

There never was a greater admirer of the English soldier than Canrobert.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

Here all the great soldiers of the Empire, Arnand, Pelissier, Canrobert, Bosquet, have won their first laurels.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 by Various

They lay passive upon the ground waiting for the French under Canrobert and Louis Napoleon to begin the attack in front, and thus divert the attention of Menzikov.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin

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