Decision-making place

Usage examples of crossroads.

All that the French needed to do was take the crossroads at Quatre Bras.

Better still, instead of retreating back to the crossroads, they were going to the cover of the dark wood which ran like a bastion down the left flank of the French route to Quatre Bras.

Consciousness at the Crossroads is the result of a series of meetings between the Dalai Lama and a group of eminent neuroscientists and psychiatrists.

If that crossroads was lost, then Napoleon would have successfully swung the two doors apart.

Sharpe instinctively reined in his horse as he stared at the small cluster of buildings that marked the crossroads called Quatre Bras.

Nothing moved at the crossroads, or nothing that threatened a soldier's life.

There were no troops at the crossroads and the highway was empty, just a pale dusty strip between its vivid green verges.

If the French cut it, we're on our own, so if we lose these crossroads, the Crapauds have won the damned campaign.

That sighting had been only twelve miles south of this crossroads, yet now there was no sign of any Frenchmen.

Or maybe the French had marched past this crossroads and were already nearing Brussels?

The French troops had not stopped in Frasnes, but were marching doggedly on towards Sharpe who supposed that their orders were to seize the crossroads at Quatre Bras before nightfall.

If Saxe-Weimar could reach the crossroads first, and if his men would fight, the French would fail, but it would be a very close race.

He twisted in the saddle to see a column of infantry at the crossroads of Quatre Bras.

Yet more men were coming from the crossroads and deploying left and right beyond the first two units.

Lieutenant Simon Doggett waited at the crossroads and frowned when he saw the blood on Sharpe's arm.