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The Battle of Le Cateau was fought on the Western Front during the First World War on 26 August 1914. The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and the French Fifth Army had retreated after their defeats at the Battle of Charleroi (21–23 August) and the Battle of Mons (23 August).
The Battle of Le Cateau (29 March 1794) took place at the start of the 1794 Flanders Campaign during the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars. It saw three Republican French divisions led by Antoine Balland, Jacques Gilles Henri Goguet and Jacques Fromentin attack a Habsburg Austrian force commanded by Paul Kray ...
Battle of Le Cateau Siege of Landrecies Jacques Gilles Henri Goguet (11 March 1767 – 21 April 1794) rose to command a French division during the French Revolutionary Wars before he was assassinated by his own soldiers after a defeat.
During the Battle of Le Cateau (26 August) part of Gough's brigade again assisted 5th Infantry Division. After the battle, lacking orders or information, he managed to make contact with Wilson (sub chief of staff, BEF) on the civilian telephone system, who told him – by Gough's account – "As you are on the spot, do as you like, old boy."
British dead at Le Cateau. Elkington deployed with the 1st battalion of his regiment to the Western Front of the First World War.They fought at the 26 August 1914 Battle of Le Cateau, a delaying action during the Great Retreat from Mons and afterwards retreated towards the Marne. [10]
Horace Smith-Dorrien [3] was born at Haresfoot, a house near Berkhamsted, in the county of Hertfordshire to Colonel Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien and Mary Ann Drever. He was the twelfth child of sixteen; his eldest brother was Thomas Smith-Dorrien-Smith, the Lord Proprietor of the Isles of Scilly from 1872 until 1918.
3.1 Battle of Le Cateau. 3.2 Rearguard Affair of Le Grand Fayt. ... Of the 40,000 Entente troops fighting at Le Cateau, 5,212 men were killed or wounded, ...
On 26 August 1914, Fowler took part in the Battle of Le Cateau, but he was cut off from his regiment during a German advance.For five months, Fowler lived in the local woods, until he was discovered by a local man, Louis Basquin, on 15 January 1915. [1]