Quatre Bras

[ kah-truh brah; French ka-truh brah ]

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noun

a village in central Belgium, near Brussels: battle preliminary to the battle of Waterloo fought here 1815.

Quatre Bras

/ katrə bra /

a village in Belgium near Brussels; site of a battle in June 1815 where Wellington defeated the French under Marshal Ney, immediately preceding the battle of Waterloo

Both the allied armies hastened to unite at Quatre Bras; but their junction there was already impossible.

In the evening he ordered concentration on Nivelles, and not till the morning of the 16th did he direct movements on Quatre-Bras.

About two o'clock however he began, with Reille's corps only, the battle of Quatre-Bras.

Napoleon however seems to have expected that Quatre-Bras would not be held by any serious force.

He followed them—so ragged, so scarred and pierced now, that they would scarcely hold together—to Quatre Bras and Ligny.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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