Author: Nigel Cave
Le Cateau
Pen and Sword Military
Battleground Europe
2008
Format: EPUB
Pages: 224
Size: 10 Mb
Language: English
Le Cateau (26-27 August 1914) was the second major action fought by the BEF in the Great War. His men exhausted after fighting at Mons and by the subsequent speedy retreat, Lieutenant-General Horace Smith-Dorrien (commanding II Corps) decided that he had to make a stand in the vicinity of Le Cateau.