Borny

The village consists of about twelve little, low gray houses, stretching up a steep hill, with a very rough road toward the woods of Borny behind.

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

The three keepers (Garde de Borny and our two) looked very imposing.

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

The church is a pretty, old gray building -- standing very high, with the little graveyard on one side, and a grass terrace in front, from which one has the most lovely view down the valley, and over the green slopes to the woods -- Borny and Villers-Cotterets on one side,

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

The most egotistic and incapable of all the generals half-heartedly engaged the enemy in the Battles of Borny, Gravelotte and Saint-Privat, on the pretence of getting out of Metz, and when they were half won, he fell back upon the town.

The Diary of a French Army Chaplain Felix, Klein 1915

But one M. le Borny, two or three years since, by force took it, so that the violence was on Le Borny's part. '

The Acadian Exiles : a Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline 1898

Frederick Charles's, which had passed the river higher up and come down along the left bank in order to bar the French from access to their country; Borny, where the firing did not begin until it was three o'clock; Borny, that barren victory, at the end of which the

The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

Then, on the 14th [*] came the affair of Borny, when the army was attacked at the moment when it was at last about to cross the stream, having to sustain the onset of two German armies: Steinmetz's, which was encamped in observation in front of the intrenched camp, and Prince

The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

French were crossing the Moselle, Steinmetz hurried forward his troops and fell upon the French detachments still lying on the south-east of Metz about Borny and Courcelles.

A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868

Charles, with his usual sagacity, confirmed all the ancient rights and privileges of the city and its corporations, which had been a good deal disturbed under the centralising rule of the French sovereigns, and a record of the year 1538 tells us that on the proclamation in that year of the truce of Borny, the Austrian authorities paid the treasurer of the city

France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 William Henry Hurlbert 1861

Woerth, Borny, even Vionville were only "Treffen."

On War — Volume 1 Carl von Clausewitz 1805