Ehrenbreitstein
Americannoun
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On the opposite bank is the spectacular fortress of Ehrenbreitstein.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since Coblenz was too small to hold them, they massed on green fields beneath the crags of Ehrenbreitstein, a fortress surveying the Rhine, and the Moselle.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Nazis began shelling the city from the Ehrenbreitstein fortress across the Rhine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marlborough, sheltered by the complicity of Heinsius, politely disregarded their orders and started on his famous march, by Ehrenbreitstein and Heilbronn, meeting Eugene on his way.
From Lectures on Modern history by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
Coblentz is completely commanded by the heights of Ehrenbreitstein, a rock as high as Dover, the summit and side covered with the ruins of the fortress which the French blew up.
From Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) by Stanley, Edward
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