Quatre Bras is the name of a crossroads in Belgium where the Charleroi-Brussels Road and the Nivelles-Namur Road.
On June 16, 1815 near the crossroads of Quatre Bras, the Battle of Quatre Bras was fought between contingents of the Anglo-allied army and the left wing of the French Army.
The centre and right columns would attack the Prussian army, while Marshal Ney, commanding the left column, was to seize the QuatreBras crossroads to prevent Wellington coming to Blücher’s assistance.
Napoleon expected Ney to occupy the QuatreBras cross-roads during the afternoon of the 15th June 1815.
Ney was unable to take QuatreBras and his attack deprived Napoleon of a significant force that would have enabled him to defeat the Prussians conclusively, thereby preventing them from taking any part in the Battle of Waterloo the next day.
The Battle of QuatreBras was fought between contingents of the Anglo-Dutch army and the left wing of the French Army on June 16, 1815, near the crossroads of QuatreBras, in Belgium.
The crossroads of Quatre-Bras was of strategic importance because the side which controlled it could move south-eastward along the Nivelles-Namur road towards the French and Prussian armies at the Battle of Ligny.
At the beginning of the battle Marshal Michel Ney, with the left wing of the Armee du Nord, faced a force of some 8,000 Dutch infantry and 16 guns, under the command of the Prince of Orange, thinly deployed south of the crossroads of QuatreBras.
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