Battle of Quatre Bras
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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[lower-alpha 1] 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. The battle was a tactical victory for Wellington (as he possessed the field at dusk), but because Ney prevented him going to the aid of Blucher's Prussians who were fighting a larger French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte at Ligny it was a strategic victory for the French.
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Battle of Quatre Bras | |||||||
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Part of the Waterloo campaign | |||||||
The Prince of Orange at Quatre Bras, by Jan Willem Pieneman | |||||||
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France | |||||||
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20,000–21,000[1] | 32,000[1]–36,000 | ||||||
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4,140–4,400[1] killed or wounded | 4,800[2]–5,600[1] killed or wounded |
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