St. Amand

The most ancient writings known in this district were charters and other documents, and the pious effusion of the occupants of the monasteries, such as St. Amand, Lobbes, St.velot, etc.

Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873

He would drive all night and much of the next morning, until he reached a certain small cabin on a certain small lake twenty-odd miles north of St. Amand l'Eglise,

Dance Of Death Preston, Douglas 2005

Company D, with Company A, 1st Battalion, 23d Infantry, [2d Infantry Division,] mounted on the tanks 'decks ... by 0250, 1 August, had reached the village of St. Amand without encountering resistance.

Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

The Count gave me a memorandum of the Christian and surnames of the deceased, his age, the complaint he died of, and the usual particulars; also a note of the exact position in which a grave, the dimensions of which were described, of the ordinary simple kind, was to be dug, between two vaults belonging to the family of St. Amand.

The Room in the Dragon Volant 2003

J. Servier, Histoire de l'utopie (St. Amand, 1967).

UTOPIA ROGER L. EMERSON 1968

Accordingly the Young Guard swept forward to retake St. Amand, arriving just in time to sustain the morale of the shaken IIIrd Corps, which was again wavering on the verge of flight.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

It is fairly clear from an examination of the Correspondance that until at least 8:00 A.M. on the 16th the Emperor was convinced in his own mind that Blücher would retreat; it seemed beyond the bounds of reason that the Prussian commander in chief, for all his well-known “hussar habits,” would deliberately court battle in the exposed position around the villages of St. Amand and Ligny.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

This onslaught, led by the Field Marshal in person, caught the French somewhat by surprise, and the Prussians profited from their advantage to retake part of St. Amand.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

General of Division Girard was killed at St. Amand, and it took herculean efforts on the part of IVth Corps—as we have already related—to capture even part of Ligny.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

Thus do not hesitate even for a moment to carry out the maneuver ordered by the Emperor, and direct your advance on the heights of Brye and St. Amand so as to cooperate in a victory that may well turn out to be decisive.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966