Quatre Bras

American  

[kah-truh brah, ka-tr^uh brah] / ˈkɑ trə ˈbrɑ, ka trə ˈbrɑ /

noun

1. a village in central Belgium, near Brussels: battle preliminary to the battle of Waterloo fought here 1815.

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Quatre Bras British  

/ katrə bra /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

Couve arrived an hour late for the start of the meeting at Quatre Bras, the modern Foreign Ministry building.

From Time Magazine Archive

Colonel Heym�s, Ney's chief of staff, declared that the Emperor's final words were, "Go, and drive back the enemy"; the Emperor asserted that his orders to go and hold Quatre Bras were positive.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan

Erlon had abandoned the road to Quatre Bras; had understood that he was not to join Ney after all, but to go east and help Napoleon!

From Waterloo by Belloc, Hilaire

However, this was but the Quatre Bras before the Waterloo.

From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Glazier, Willard W.

At Quatre Bras, Wellington had not been able, as he had hoped, to join the Prussians and save them from defeat.

From Waterloo by Belloc, Hilaire