The Battle of Charleroi (French: Bataille de Charleroi) or the Battle of the Sambre, was fought on 21 August 1914, by the French Fifth Army and the German...
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Charleroi (UK: /ˈʃɑːrlə.rwʌ/, US: /-rɔɪ, -rwɑː/, French: [ʃaʁləʁwa] ; Walloon: Tchålerwè [tʃɑːlɛʀwɛ]) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located...
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Charles Lanrezac (category Grand Crosses of the Order of the Crown (Belgium))
west than anticipated, through Belgium at the Battle of Charleroi. He was frustrated by the reluctance of his superior, General Joseph Joffre, who was...
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commonly known as the Battle of Charleroi, between French and German forces Battle of the Sambre (1918), the final British offensive of World War I This disambiguation...
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inflicted 3,000 casualties, and drove Jourdan away from Charleroi back across the Sambre in the battle of Lambusart. While it was a setback, the French army...
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the Battle of Charleroi (22 August) and began a greater withdrawal from the area south of the Sambre on 23 August. The BEF fought the Battle of Mons...
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Great Retreat (category Battles of the Western Front (World War I))
War had been defeated by the armies of the German Empire at the Battle of Charleroi (21 August) and the Battle of Mons (23 August). A counter-offensive...
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Sambre (category Tributaries of the Meuse)
of Namur in 1914 (Battle of Charleroi) and in the last month of the war Battle of the Sambre (1918). Edwards-May, David (2010). Inland Waterways of France...
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following day and the siege of Namur began on 21 August. After the Battle of Mons and the Battle of Charleroi, the bulk of the German armies marched south...
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right of the BEF, was engaged with the German 2nd and 3rd armies at the Battle of Charleroi. French refused, instead agreeing to hold the line of the...
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