Sadowa

American  

[sah-daw-vah] / ˈsɑ dɔˌvɑ /

noun

1. a village in NE Bohemia, in the W Czech Republic: Prussian victory over Austrians 1866.

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Sadowa British  

/ ˈsɑːdəʊvə /

noun

1. Czech name: Sadová.  a village in the Czech Republic, in NE Bohemia: scene of the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian war (1866) in which the Austrians were defeated by the Prussians

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Example Sentences

Future French President Adolphe Thiers shrewdly remarked in 1866 that “it was we who were beaten at Sadowa.”

From Forbes

After the 1870 plebiscite, an imperial politician said, “Now we have won our own Sadowa.”

From Forbes

The speech was, in brief, a powerful, passionate denunciation of Austria, and the principles which Austria represented before Sadowa taught her a lesson of tardy wisdom.

From Project Gutenberg

With the success of Prussia at Sadowa ended King William's personal unpopularity in Europe.

From Project Gutenberg

Little did even he himself think when, after Sadowa, he accused the Emperor's Government of having left itself no blunder more to commit, that it had yet to perpetrate one crowning and gigantic mistake, and that one effect at least of this stupendous error would be to compel Paris to treat au sérieux, and as a supreme necessity, that system of defences so long regarded as good for little else than to remind the present generation that Louis Adolphe Thiers was once Prime Minister of France.

From Project Gutenberg