Cambrai

American

[kahn-bre] / kɑ̃ˈbrɛ /

noun

a city in N France: battles 1917, 1918.

Cambrai British

/ kɑ̃brɛ /

noun

a town in NE France: textile industry: scene of a battle in which massed tanks were first used and broke through the German line (November, 1917). Pop: 33 738 (1999)

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In 1508, he formed a coalition of European powers, the League of Cambrai, setting them upon the Venetians and then taking the field himself.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2024

A French farmer harvests wheat in Honnecourt-sur-Escaut, near Cambrai, France, August 9, 2016.

From Reuters • Jul. 22, 2022

The next day the camper van is bound for the ancient town of Cambrai.

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2017

Not only did Jack survive, he went on to fight at Ypres and Passchendaele before being wounded at the Battle of Cambrai.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2016

He takes the Empress in a canal barge from Brussels to Malines and himself descends the subterranean vault of the Escaut-Oise canal, between St. Quentin and Cambrai.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe

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