Battle of Quatre Bras

Battle of Quatre Bras
	Part of the Waterloo campaign
	; The Prince of Orange at the Battle of Quatre-Bras, by Jan Willem Pieneman
Date	16 June 1815
Location	Quatre Bras, present-day Belgium50°34′17″N 4°27′12″E / 50.57139°N 4.45333°E
Result	Inconclusive
Belligerents
France	Seventh Coalition:; United Kingdom; Netherlands; Hanover; Nassau; Brunswick;
Commanders and leaders
Michel Ney; Jérôme Bonaparte;	Duke of Wellington; William of Orange;
Strength
20,000–21,000	32,000–36,000
Casualties and losses
4,140–4,400 killed or wounded	4,800–5,600 killed or wounded

Hundred Days:
Waterloo campaign

390km
242miles

8

Saint Helena

7

Rochefort

6

Waterloo

5

4

3

2

Paris

1

Elba

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Napoleon in command

Napoleon not in command

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. 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.