Sadowa
Americannoun
noun
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An amazed Reichstager groaned as he beheld, in the place of a bust of Field Marshal Moltke, the victor of Sadowa and Sedan,* a bust of Friedrich Ebert, first President of the German Republic.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Austrian Army at Sadowa numbered 200,000; the French Army at Sedan some 120,000.
From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various
It is now fifty years since, through the Battle of Sadowa, Austria-Hungary was ousted from the German Confederation.
From German Problems and Personalities by Charles Saroléa
Then he went to Gotha, Hanover, and Berlin; he visited the battlefields of Langensalza and Sadowa and returned to Paris with his notebooks crammed with precious details, his pockets bulging with unpublished documents.
From The Prussian Terror by Alexandre Dumas
Benedek occupied a strong position on a range of low hills beyond the little river Bistritz, with the village of Sadowa as his centre.
From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Bayard Taylor
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