1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Colombey

COLOMBEY, a village of Lorraine, 4 m. E. of Metz, famous as the scene of a battle between the Germans and the French fought on the 14th of August 1870. It is often called the battle of Borny, from another village 21/2 m. E. of Metz. (See Metz and Franco-German War.)