Ratisbon
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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In the best Ratisbon tradition, he came back, managed to land in Rightist territory with photographs intact, died still at the controls.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was the only one of his staff who knew that captured Regensburg was the Ratisbon of Napoleonic fame.
From Time Magazine Archive
Regensburg, the Ratisbon where Napoleon won a battle and a wound in the heel; Augsburg, 95 miles from the Brenner Pass; Bremen in the north, Germany's second largest seaport, all fell within the week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ulm, Ratisbon and Hohenlinden in the South German Basin were all sites of Napoleonic victories against the various coalitions of Austria, Russia and England.
From Time Magazine Archive
He made a winter march, with such skill and swiftness, that he appeared before the walls of Ratisbon at the same moment with the first news of his movement.
From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard
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