The Battle of Le Cateau 26th August 1914

The British Expeditionary Force faced disaster in August 1914. Driven from Belgium after the Battle of Mons, it found itself isolated from its French allies and closely pursued by numerically superior German forces. At the darkest moment of the retreat General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien made the bold decision to turn his forces and fight.

The Battle of Le Cateau on August 26, 1914, was a crucial rearguard action where the British Expeditionary Force (BEF)'s II Corps fought a delaying engagement against the advancing German First Army, allowing the main BEF to continue its retreat from Mons.

Dr. Spencer Jones is an award-winning historian and author. He is Senior Lecturer in Armed Forces and War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton and serves as the Regimental Historian for the Royal Regiment of Artillery.

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