Little St Bernard Pass

noun

1. a pass over the Savoy Alps, between Bourg-Saint-Maurice, France, and La Thuile, Italy: 11th-century hospice. Height: 2187 m (7177 ft)

Example Sentences

Little St. Bernard Pass, the crossing of the, ii.

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Hannibal was 29 when he crossed the Little St. Bernard Pass in the Alps; he was 31 at Cannae and was 45 at Zama.

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He crossed the swift Rhone in the face of the Gauls who disputed the passage, and then made his memorable march over the Alps, probably by the way now known as the Little St. Bernard pass.

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He crossed the Pyrenees, went up the valley of the Rhone, and then up the valley of the Isère, and most probably crossed the Alps by the Little St. Bernard pass.

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