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Hohenlinden

noun

A town in Bavaria (near Munich).

A battle during the Napoleonic Wars (1800); the French defeated the Austrians. Synonym: battle of Hohenlinden.

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"Hohenlinden" Quotes from Famous Books

... vaillant rien d'impossible!" she said, with an envoi of her lorgnon, and a smile that should have intoxicated him—a smile that might have rewarded a Richepanse for a Hohenlinden. "Superbly ridden! I absolutely trembled for you as you lifted the King to that last leap. It ...

— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]

... coffee-houses along the course of the river, when the beanflowers are in bloom. For out of the old city you go easily beyond the walls to the grey glacier water of "Isar rolling rapidly," not red with blood now as after Hohenlinden, but brilliant and boisterous always, with washerwomen leaning over it with bare arms, and dogs wading where rushes and dams break the current, and the hay blowing breast-high along the banks, and the students chasing the girls through it, and every now and then upon the wind the music ...

— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida

... sacred ground. The vegetation is rank with the blood of gallant invaders, and of no less gallant patriots. In the words of Campbell's 'Hohenlinden' - ...

— Prose Idylls • Charles Kingsley

... French at Hohenlinden in December of the same year brought Austria to terms, and she agreed to conclude a separate peace with the French republic. This was the beginning of a general pacification. During the year 1801 treaties were signed with all the powers with which France ...

— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson

... which every newspaper filled its Poet's Corner, good poems which else might have hid their little light under a bushel—Campbell's "Hohenlinden," Mrs. Hemans' "Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers," Hunt's "Abou ben Adhem," Hood's "The Song of the Shirt," and many others—are now as widely known as are the best works ...

— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long