Jemappes

[ French zhuh-map ]

noun

1. a town in SW Belgium, near Mons: French victory over Austrians 1792.

Jemappes

/ ʒəmap /

noun

1. a town in SW Belgium, in Hainaut province west of Mons: scene of a battle (1792) during the French Revolutionary Wars, in which the French defeated the Austrians

Example Sentences

La Bonne Bière had its own flower-and-candle memorial, and its own crowd of mourners and onlookers, which began to roil and shift as a small group, circled by media, broke off and made for the Quai de Jemappes.

From The New Yorker

To the left of the R. Fusiliers, were the R. Scots Fusiliers, and beyond them again half the Northumberland Fusiliers reaching as far as Jemappes.

From Project Gutenberg

The three brigades of this latter division, after putting up a heroic defence and suffering very severe casualties, got the order to retire at 3 p.m., whereupon the R. Fusiliers fell slowly back through Mons to Hyon, and the R. Scots Fusiliers, who had put up a great fight at Jemappes, through Flénu.

From Project Gutenberg

The blowing up of the Jemappes bridge gave a lot of trouble.

From Project Gutenberg

When the enemy had quitted France, he invaded Hainaut and defeated the Austrians at Jemappes on the 6th of November.

From Project Gutenberg