Quatre-Bras
a village of Belgium; about 10 miles S. S. E. of Waterloo; at the intersection of the great roads from Brussels to Charleroi, and from Nivelles to Namur, whence its name ("four arms"). On June 16, 1815, two days before the battle of Waterloo, Quatre- Bras was the scene of a desperate battle between the English under Wellington and the French under Ney. The honors of the field remained with the former; but the severe defeat of Blücher the same day at Ligny compelled Wellington to retreat. The loss on the English side was 5,200, on the French 4,140, among the allies being the Duke of Brunswick, the gallant chief of the Black Brunswickers. A monument to his memory, a bronze lion 10½ feet high, was erected in 1890.