Le Cateau

British  

/ lə kato /

noun

1. a town in NE France: site (August 26, 1914) of the largest British battle since Waterloo, which led to the disruption of the German attack on the Allies. Pop: 7460 (1999)

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Example Sentences

Within days of joining the war he was captured at Caudry, near Le Cateau, on 27 August 1914 and taken to a POW camp in Giessen, north of Frankfurt.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2015

This law student from Le Cateau in the north of France saw the picture plane flat and saw it whole.

From Time Magazine Archive

For General Smith-Dorrien it is urged that his stand at Le Cateau broke the full force of the German pursuit, and checked its course in time.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various

By skillful maneuvering he extricated his men at Le Cateau in the most critical moment of the retreat.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan

Farther south the British Third and Fourth Armies were close to Le Cateau on 17th Oct.; and Mangin and the French had re-entered Laon—so long the German Great Head-quarters—on 13th Oct.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various