Pampeluna
Americannoun
noun
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At the siege of Pampeluna in 1521, a French cannon ball whizzed between the legs of a Basque knight named ��igo de O�ez y Loyola, breaking his right shin and tearing his left calf.
From Time Magazine Archive
July 31st.—Soult attacks Anglo-Spanish army near Roncesvalles in order to succour Pampeluna.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
Spain, in Navarre, on the Ega, 24 miles south-west of Pampeluna.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
On personal grounds our monk must have been pleased at the choice of the electors, for the new Pope was the special prot�g� of the French Cardinal of Pampeluna, Simon Langham's friend and executor.
From William de Colchester Abbot of Westminster by Pearce, Ernest Harold
In this year he took Badajos, he fought the field of Vittoria, he captured Pampeluna, he stormed San Sebastian; in this year he won Salamanca.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
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