Cambrai
a city in N France: battles 1917, 1918.
Contemporary Examples
The ‘GOT’ Red Viper and Mountain Duel, and a History of Medieval Trial by Combat Steven Isaac June 2, 2014
Historical Examples
Wounded and a Prisoner of War Malcolm V. (Malcolm Vivian) Hay
Hortense, Makers of History Series John S. C. Abbott
1914 John French, Viscount of Ypres
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume IV. (of XXI.) Thomas Carlyle
Wounded and a Prisoner of War Malcolm V. (Malcolm Vivian) Hay
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) John Morley
The Great War As I Saw It Frederick George Scott
Henry VIII. A. F. Pollard
The Escaping Club A. J. Evans
noun
a town in NE France: textile industry: scene of a battle in which massed tanks were first used and broke through the German line (November, 1917). Pop: 33 738 (1999)
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