Quatre Bras

[ kah-truh brah; French ka-truh brah ]

noun

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

Quatre Bras

/ 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

Example Sentences

Both the allied armies hastened to unite at Quatre Bras; but their junction there was already impossible.

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In the evening he ordered concentration on Nivelles, and not till the morning of the 16th did he direct movements on Quatre-Bras.

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About two o'clock however he began, with Reille's corps only, the battle of Quatre-Bras.

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Napoleon however seems to have expected that Quatre-Bras would not be held by any serious force.

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He followed them—so ragged, so scarred and pierced now, that they would scarcely hold together—to Quatre Bras and Ligny.

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