Scharnhorst

[ shahrn-hawrst ]

noun

1. Ger·hard Jo·hann Da·vid von [gair, -hah, r, t , yoh, -hahn , dah, -veet f, uh, n], 1755–1813, Prussian general.

Example Sentences

Thirty-five hits upon the ill-fated Good Hope were counted by the Scharnhorst's gunners.

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The heavier British guns had now begun definitely to tell, however, and the Scharnhorst was already on fire forward.

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Perhaps not knowing they were firing into a German vessel, the Gneisenau and the Scharnhorst continued their wild cannonades.

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Prussia was prevented from "throwing herself into the arms of Russia," much to the disgust of Scharnhorst and his friends.

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Clausewitz saw all this; he conversed227 intimately with such men as Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, who saw and guided it, too.

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