atlas
atlas (plural: atlantes). A sculpted male figure functioning as a column or other supporting feature in architecture, particularly popular in the
Baroque period. In Greek mythology, Atlas was the giant who held up the sky, and atlantes are often depicted so as to suggest the strain of carrying a huge weight on the shoulders. The female equivalent—the
caryatid—is, in contrast, usually shown standing serenely upright.
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Orange parade.(City Desk)(the Gates in New York)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: National Review; 3/28/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Island (ex-press in Qns, local in Man and Bklyn); William III, clashing with the Duke of Luxembourg at Steenkirk and Neerwinden; subways and campaigns, punctuated by express stops and hecatombs. Simile is the refuge of lazy critics. What of the objects...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/18/1994; 700+ words
; ...of Italy, 1983. On this day: the First Lateran Council began, 1123; the Austrians defeated the French at the Battle of Neerwinden, 1793; in Tolpuddle, Dorset, six farm labourers were sentenced to be transported for forming a trade union, 1834; a...
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A poppy primer.
Magazine article from: Country Living; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...a Belgian plain in 1693, after more than 20,000 soldiers had died when the French defeated William III at the Battle of Neerwinden, the soil "broke forth into millions of poppies," the English writer and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay noted...
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Representations of the Republic at war: Lille and Toulon, 1792-1793. (France)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...represented the military history of the revolution as a series of campaigns resolved by great battles - Valmy, Jemappes, Neerwinden, Wattignies, Fleurus - it is striking that revolutionary politicians, journalists, poets, playwrights and artists devoted...
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Neerwinden
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Neerwinden , village, Liège prov., E Belgium. In the War of the Grand...there. In the French Revolutionary Wars, a French defeat (1793) at Neerwinden resulted in the defection of General Dumouriez to the Austrians.
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Neerwinden, battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Neerwinden, battle of, 1693. On 29 July Marshal Luxembourg with 80,000 men attacked William III with 50,000 near Liège. William suffered severe losses of men and guns, but retreated in good order and saved Brussels.
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League of Augsburg, War of the (1688–1697)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...war gained the military advantage in the Spanish Netherlands at Fleurus (July 1690), Steenkerque (August 1692), and Neerwinden (July 1693), while their victory at Staffarda (August 1690) in Piedmont threatened the collapse of allied power in northern...
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Landen, battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Landen, battle of See neerwinden .
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William III
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...repelled an invasion at La Hogue in May 1692; but on the Continent, William barely held his own. William's defeat at Neerwinden in July 1693 cost the French so many lives that Louis XIV began peace overtures. Sporadic campaigning cont
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