Hollabrunn

Marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers by the way, Bagration came out on the Vienna-Znaim road at Hollabrunn a few hours ahead of the French who were approaching Hollabrunn from Vienna.

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Hollabrunn and have pursued ever since to this place.

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As soon as Bonaparte (who was at Schonbrunn, sixteen miles from Hollabrunn) received

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When the three leaders, accompanied by their staffs, met for the first time in a poorly lit room in an inn at Hollabrunn, there was a moment of extreme tension, for on the rustic table confronting them lay the jeweled baton, about thirty inches long, which would be carried by the commander in chief, and no one knew who that would be.

Poland Michener, James 1983

Jan Sobieski and his Poles had an infinitely more difficult task; first he had to move from Hollabrunn, over low and marshy land, to a point opposite the Danube town of Tulln, and there he had to assemble pontoon bridges which would lift his troops across the river and onto the side of the Danube where the Turks waited.

Poland Michener, James 1983

On 31 August, when it was doubtful that Vienna could much longer withstand the dreadful siege being mounted by Kara Mustafa, Jan Sobieski rode into the small town of Hollabrunn, northwest of Vienna and only a short distance from the Danube River, which the army would have to cross before it could engage the Turks, and there he met for the first time with twoof the finest gentlemen of Europe.

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And on this prayer the remarkable meeting at Hollabrunn broke up.

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They did not follow the leisurely route which Lubonski and Lukasz had taken on their expedition into Austria, but rather a direct line to the towns of Brno and Hollabrunn, where the Austrian and German generals participating in the battle would meet them, and as they marched, always at maximum speed, Brat Piotr, with janko at his side, began to strike friendships with the noblemen who formed the contingent of wing&d hussars.

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Notwithstanding this favorable opening, the maneuver of Hollabrunn ended in new disappointment.

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Looked at from all sides, it was hardly a cheerful prospect; the French army was extended for strategical and logistical reasons in a vast arc from Ulm through Innsbruck and Graz to Vienna and beyond, and the component corps were barely within supporting distance of one another, with the exception of those gathered around Vienna and Hollabrunn facing the main Allied forces.

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