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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river, about 105 km (65 mi) long, of northwest Italy flowing northward to the Po River. Hannibal defeated the Romans on the banks of the river in 218 BC.
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Carthage Bay, especially a man looking at those sodden pools that were the sound harbours of Carthage, might be in an uninhabited world; and the loop of the Trebbia is the same, and the edge of Fontenoy; and even here in England that hillside looking south up which the Normans charged at Battle is a quiet and a drowsy sort of place ....
First and Last Hilaire Belloc 1911
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Actually, in history, Trebbia was not a curb stomp for the Carthaginians.
Trebbia, or My Lose Record as Hannibal Returns | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010
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The town Rivergaro marks your entrance into the Trebbia valley.
Summer Road Trips 2009
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Suvorov foiled MacDonald's efforts to unite his army with the French forces in Italy by defeating him at the Battle of the Trebbia (June 1719).
1799 2001
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The first task he undertook was the formation of a “zone of security” between the rivers Oglio and Trebbia to the east and south of the city in order to ward off the danger of any Austrian intervention from the direction of Mantua.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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The first task he undertook was the formation of a “zone of security” between the rivers Oglio and Trebbia to the east and south of the city in order to ward off the danger of any Austrian intervention from the direction of Mantua.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Macdonald at the Battle of the Trebbia, the Frenchman being but thirty-four; and a few months later he defeated Joubert, who was thirty, at Novi.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various
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The city is situated on the right of the Po, near its junction with the Trebbia, in an important strategic position.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Scipio, defeated near the Trebbia, retreated to this town.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Mt. Ebro (5570 feet) and Mt. Lesima (5760 feet), and it terminates near the Po, forming the Pass of Stradella; that of Mt. Penna, with numerous branches between the Trebbia and the Taro Rivers, contains
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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