Ehrenbreitstein
Americannoun
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The Nazis began shelling the city from the Ehrenbreitstein fortress across the Rhine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since Coblenz was too small to hold them, they massed on green fields beneath the crags of Ehrenbreitstein, a fortress surveying the Rhine, and the Moselle.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the opposite bank is the spectacular fortress of Ehrenbreitstein.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just as we were looking at Nuendorf, on our right, we were all called, by a bend in the river, to gaze on the giant rock of Ehrenbreitstein, bristling to its very summit with fortifications.
From Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland by Choules, J.O.
Marlborough, sheltered by the complicity of Heinsius, politely disregarded their orders and started on his famous march, by Ehrenbreitstein and Heilbronn, meeting Eugene on his way.
From Lectures on Modern history by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
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