Battle of Quatre Bras

Wann

16. Juni 1815

Art

Schlacht

Koordinaten

50.57° N, 4.45° E

Description

1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition

1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition

The Battle of Quatre Bras was fought on 16 June 1815, as a preliminary engagement to the decisive Battle of Waterloo that occurred two days later. The battle took place near the strategic crossroads of Quatre Bras and was contested between elements of the Duke of Wellington's Anglo-allied army and the left wing of Napoleon Bonaparte's French Armée du Nord under Marshal Michel Ney.

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