Königgrätz

[ German kœ-nikh-grets ]

noun

1. German name of Hradec Králové.

Königgrätz

/ køːnɪçˈɡrɛːts /

noun

1. the German name for Hradec Králové

Example Sentences

When mourning Neudeck villagers were admitted they saw lying on the coverlet just below Old Paul's hands a piece of shrapnel which stunned him at the Battle of Koniggratz in 1866 when he was a dashing young lieutenant.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1879 he married Princess Louise Marguerite Alexandria Victoria Agnes of Prussia, daughter of Prince Frederick Charles, the "red prince" hero of Koniggratz in the Austro-Prussian war, cousin of the onetime Kaiser.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1866, Prussia won from Austria the important victory of Königgrätz or Sadowa, and thereby asserted its leadership.

From Project Gutenberg

"Even the battle of Königgrätz?"

From Project Gutenberg

There is a favourite German game of cards called Sixty-six, and it was reported that when the French in 1870 shouted À Berlin, the then Crown-Prince who had won the battle of Sadowa, or Königgrätz, said: “Ah, they want another game of Sixty-six!” that is they want a battle like that of Sadowa.

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