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

The French were a day's march ahead of them when the British reached the Le Cateau position.

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

But stories of the guns would delight him more, I think—Fuentes D'Onoro, Maiwand, Néry, and Le Cateau.

From Servants of the Guns by Jeffery, Jeffery E.

Lance-Corporal Frederick William Holmes, of the same regiment and battalion, also proved himself supremely brave at Le Cateau.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by Parrott, James Edward