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How to use Cambrai in a sentence

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Her life was written by Thomas de Cantimpre, the coadjutor of the Bishop of Cambrai.
Cambrai was an important town as it contained a strategic railhead.
Numerous small Frankish kingdoms existed during the 5th century around Cologne, Tournai, Le Mans, Cambrai and elsewhere.
Saint Vindicianus, the bishop of Cambrai made the first recorded reference to the place Brosella, in 695, when it was still a hamlet.
The earliest Old Irish passages may be the transcripts found in the Cambrai Homily, which is thought to belong to the early 8th century.
A few years later, he killed Ragnachar, the Frankish king of Cambrai, along with his brothers.
Spain launched a concerted offensive in 1595, taking Doullens, Cambrai and Le Catelet and in the spring of 1596 capturing Calais by April.
His mother, Jeanne le Franc, was the daughter of an innkeeper from Cambrai.
On 8 October the line was pierced again by British and Dominion troops at the Battle of Cambrai.
Such battles include Ypres, the Marne, Cambrai, the Somme, Verdun, and Gallipoli.
On 20 November the British launched the first massed tank attack during the Battle of Cambrai.
Plans for a III Corps attack at Cambrai had been proposed as far back as May.
Haig left the War Cabinet with the impression that he thought the Germans would launch small attacks on the scale of Cambrai.
In 1510, France, with a fragile alliance with the Holy Roman Empire in the League of Cambrai, was winning a war against Venice.
A few years later, he killed Ragnachar, the Frankish king of Cambrai, and his brothers.
The southern attack at Cambrai also failed, because V Corps had been too disorganised after the fighting in Belgium to make a serious effort.
It is in the same side chapel as the noted icon Our Lady of Cambrai.
According to the Gesta he took part in tournaments in Cambrai.
Only two local offensives, by the British and French in the north at Arras on 21 May and by the French from Cambrai in the south on 22 May, took place.
Belloc placed a memorial tablet at the nearby Cambrai Cathedral.
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It was to break the Hindenburg lines at their nodal point in front of Cambrai.
The next day, Monsieur Conyncks of Cambrai came to fetch his great-niece.
The surrender of Cambrai provoked the execution of Marie Antoinette.
The main road from Audenarde to Valenciennes and Cambrai passes here.
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