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The territory opposite the city belongs to the duchy of Nassau, but enough has been ceded to the King of Prussia to enable him to erect the celebrated Ehrenbreitstein, which is one of the strongest forts in the world, occupying the summit of a rocky height, whose base is washed by the Rhine, and whose outworks are pushed to all the neighbouring eminences.
A Residence in France Cooper, J Fenimore 1836
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The fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, which is intended to protect Coblentz on the right bank, is so difficult of access that it would be quite easy to blockade it, and the egress of
The Art of War Henri Jomini 1824
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He was taken up that very evening by a soldier at Coblentz, for making a sketch of Ehrenbreitstein.
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Ehrenbreitstein, with a perennial well of water within the walls.
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There were Ehrenbreitstein and Rolandseck and Coblentz, which I knew only in history.
Walking 1969
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Ehrenbreitstein, which formed the principal barracks for the
Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs Homer Randall
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From something he said I have an idea that he was concerned in the plot to blow up Ehrenbreitstein.
Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs Homer Randall
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Drusus fortified this place and Ehrenbreitstein thirteen years before Christ.
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The next _lion_ is Ehrenbreitstein, lying on the right bank of the
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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While some of the prisoners were weeping, others wringing their hands, and others standing in an attitude of completest dejection, he was apparently as self-possessed and unalarmed as though he had been standing in front of the barracks at Ehrenbreitstein.
Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs Homer Randall
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