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 orders were to fall back on St. Quentin, and by the time the first shot was fired at Le Cateau, the brigade was well on its way to Etreux.

From The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Hamilton, Ernest W.

On the 24th, whilst the squadrons were moving from Maubeuge to Le Cateau, the enemy advance as seen from the air looked menacing enough.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

The second route would invariably begin at the Somme and run along the plateau between the Sambre and Meuse via way of Le Cateau, Mons, Charleroi to Namur.

From "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by Currie, John Allister