Assertion: napoleon's battle | /r/CapableOf | take place
Facets:
value: on a plain
type: LOCATION
value: in quatre-bras
type: LOCATION
value: to the east of alessandria
type: LOCATION
value: in ligny
type: LOCATION
value: on june
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The Battle of Waterloo took place on 18 June, 1815 near the town of the same name in Belgium.
text: The battle to take these sites stretched on through the day, causing great losses among the French, who were able to launch successive attacks on the allies’ infantry.
text: A double battle took place on June 16 in Quatre-Bras and Ligny; both were French victories, although neither was a fatal blow to Napoleon’s enemies.
text: Nevertheless it was in the Battle of the Pyramids (more accurately the Battle of Embabeh in the Gaza plain where the battle actually took place) that Napoleon famously routed the Mameluke cavalry by putting into practise his innovative use of the massive so-called ‘divisional square’, a tactic first deployed in Antiquity.
text: The battle took place to the east of Alessandria, on a plain crossed by a river forming meanders, the Bormida, over which the Austrians installed a bridgehead.
text: The battle took place the day after the Battle of Ulm, and Napoleon did not hear about it for weeks—
text: The first real battle took place July 21, 1861, on the hills around Bull Run creek outside Manassas, Virginia, a railroad junction some 30 miles south of the Northern capital at Washington City (Washington, D.C.) and about 90 miles north of the Confederate capital at Richmond on July.