Fontenoy
Fontenoy , village, Hainaut prov., SW Belgium, near Tournai. There, in 1745, Count Maurice de Saxe, in his most celebrated victory, led the French against the British and their allies under the duke of Cumberland in the War of the Austrian Succession.
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Letter from Dresden; Wayne Gooding finds a city that's renovating its musical heritage brick by brick.
Magazine article from: Opera Canada; 6/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...Heinrich Schuz lived and worked from 1629-1627. On another side of the square is the Hotel de Saxe, rebuilt in 2005 to recreate the original Hotel de Saxe where Clara Schumann premiered husband Robert's famous A minor piano concerto in 1845. [ILLUSTRATION...
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A Curious Void.(urban warfare)
Magazine article from: CML Army Chemical Review; 8/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...however, they did not touch upon--combat, where life is centered. Run through the list of writers and their works--Frederick, de Saxe, Clausewitz, Jomini, Kuropatkin, Bernhardi, Henderson, Foch, Fuller, Hart, et al. Not one has anything to say about military...
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Salmonella typhimurium DT104, Italy.(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases; 8/1/2006; ; 681 words
; ...Infantis from human infections foodstuffs and farm animals in Italy. Epidemiol Infect. 2004;132:245-51. (4.) Anderson ES, Ward LR, De Saxe MJ, Old DC, Barker R, Duguid JP. Bacteriophage-typing designations of Salmonella Typhimurium. J Hyg (Lond). 1977;78: 297-300...
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War in the Age of Enlightenment, 1700-1789.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2005; ; 539 words
; ...who sought to understand the principles of war--Folard, Vauban, Frederick II, Guibert, Bourcet, and, preeminently, Maurice de Saxe--focuses on the richness of their imaginations and the breadth of their curiosities. Starkey believes that these writers have...
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Fontenoy, Battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Fontenoy, Battle of (11 May 1745) A battle in the War of the AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION , fought at Fontenoy, a village in Hainault in south-west Belgium: it saw a major victory for the French over Austria and her allies. SAXE...
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Fontenoy, battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Fontenoy, battle of, 1745. In the War of the Austrian Succession , the French were besieging Tournai. The duke of Cumberland , in command...
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William Augustus Cumberland, duke of
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Entering the army shortly before the outbreak (1740) of the War of the Austrian Succession , he was defeated by the French at Fontenoy (1745). Returning to England to put down the 1745 rising of the Jacobites , he defeated Prince Charles Edward Stuart at Culloden...
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Amherst, Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...was lieutenant‐colonel by 28. After serving with distinction in the War of the Austrian Succession at Dettingen and Fontenoy , he was made commander‐in‐chief in America in 1758, and acquired a great reputation bythe conquest of Canada...
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Lothair I
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...with his father from 817. On Louis's death (840), war broke out between Lothair and his two brothers. Lothair was defeated at Fontenoy (841), and the Treaty of Verdun (843) split the Frankish Empire into three. Lothair retained the title of Emperor and ruled...
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