Radetzky

[ rah-dets-kee ]

noun

1. Count Jo·seph [yoh, -zef], 1766–1858, Austrian field marshal.

Radetzky

/ raˈdɛtski /

noun

1. RadetzkyJoseph17661858MAustrianMILITARY: generalPOLITICS: statesman Count Joseph (ˈjoːzɛf). 1766–1858, Austrian field marshal: served in the war against Sardinia (1848–9), winning brilliant victories at Custozza (1848) and Novara (1849): governor of Lombardy-Venetia in N Italy (1849-57)

Example Sentences

Rather like the way of life it celebrates, The Radetzky March hinges on trivia and bathos more than any real grand gesture.

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Radetzky, the Austrian Northern Italy aflame commander-in-chief, proclaimed martial law.

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Preferring the loss of Milan to a possible annihilation of the army, Radetzky fell back upon Verona.

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In truth, the fate of the Austrian empire now rested on the aged shoulders of Radetzky.

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Fearing another reversal of his orders, Radetzky forthwith Radetzky firm threw his army into Venetia.

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Radetzky instantly threw himself on the weakly Custozza guarded centre of the long Sardinian line.

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