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The Battle of Cambrai ( Battle of Cambrai, 1917, First Battle of Cambrai and Schlacht von Cambrai) was a British attack in the First World War, followed by the biggest German counter-attack against the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) since 1914. The town of Cambrai, in the département of Nord, in France, was an important supply centre for ...
Cambrai ( US: / kæmˈbreɪ, kɒ̃ˈ -/, [ 3][ 4] French: [kɑ̃bʁɛ] ⓘ; Picard: Kimbré; Dutch: Kamerijk ), formerly Cambray[ 4] and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the Escaut river.
League of Cambrai. Northern Italy in 1494. The League of Cambrai was a military coalition against the Republic of Venice formed on 8 December 1508, by the main European powers ( Holy Roman Empire, Spain and France ), to maintain their hegemony over the Italian Peninsula .
Cambrésis ( French: [kɑ̃bʁezi], Dutch: Kamerijk, German: Kammerich) is a former pagus, county and prince-bishopric of the medieval Holy Roman Empire that was annexed to the Kingdom of France in 1679. It is now regarded as one of the "natural regions" of France, and roughly equivalent to the Arrondissement of Cambrai in department Nord.
Cambrai is a small town located on the eastern side of the Mount Lofty Ranges, along the River Marne. Originally named Rhine Villa, it was one of many Australian towns renamed during World War I to remove any connection with German place names and named after the Battle of Cambrai. It was located on the Sedan railway line. It served as the ...
The arrondissement of Cambrai is an arrondissement of France in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region. It has 116 communes . [2] Its population is 162,045 (2016), and its area is 901.6 km 2 (348.1 sq mi).
The War of the League of Cambrai, sometimes known as the War of the Holy League and several other names, [ 1] was fought from February 1508 to December 1516 as part of the Italian Wars of 1494–1559. The main participants of the war, who fought for its entire duration, were France, the Papal States, and the Republic of Venice; they were joined ...
Battle of Cambrai may refer to one of two British World War I campaigns near the town of Cambrai, France: Battle of Cambrai (1917), a British military offensive that involved the first successful use of tanks and combined arms. Battle of Cambrai (1918), a British military offensive during the Hundred Days Offensive of World War I.