Quatre Bras
a village in central Belgium, near Brussels: battle preliminary to the battle of Waterloo fought here 1815.
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Both the allied armies hastened to unite at Quatre Bras; but their junction there was already impossible.
History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8) | John Richard GreenIn the evening he ordered concentration on Nivelles, and not till the morning of the 16th did he direct movements on Quatre-Bras.
Battles of English History | H. B. (Hereford Brooke) GeorgeAbout two o'clock however he began, with Reille's corps only, the battle of Quatre-Bras.
Battles of English History | H. B. (Hereford Brooke) GeorgeNapoleon however seems to have expected that Quatre-Bras would not be held by any serious force.
Battles of English History | H. B. (Hereford Brooke) GeorgeHe followed them—so ragged, so scarred and pierced now, that they would scarcely hold together—to Quatre Bras and Ligny.
British Dictionary definitions for Quatre Bras
/ (French 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
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