The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire. August-September, 1870G. Bell, 1887 - 362 sider |
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Side iii
... Staff is minute even to weariness , but it must always stand as the authentic foundation of every narra- tive . Unreadable to the general public , it is invaluable to the soldier - student , and to all who wish to know what the German ...
... Staff is minute even to weariness , but it must always stand as the authentic foundation of every narra- tive . Unreadable to the general public , it is invaluable to the soldier - student , and to all who wish to know what the German ...
Side iv
... Staff narrative is the basis of this book , which is an endeavour to present its essence in a succinct and readable form . Unhappily , the French accounts are wanting in precision , so that it is difficult to comprehend how they fought ...
... Staff narrative is the basis of this book , which is an endeavour to present its essence in a succinct and readable form . Unhappily , the French accounts are wanting in precision , so that it is difficult to comprehend how they fought ...
Side v
... ” 66 Page 248 , line 16 , for " Mézrières " read " Mézières . " Page 330 , line 20 , for " I " read " Je . " Page 331 , line 3 , for “ seal " read " seat . " It need scarcely be said that the Staff narrative is PREFACE . vii.
... ” 66 Page 248 , line 16 , for " Mézrières " read " Mézières . " Page 330 , line 20 , for " I " read " Je . " Page 331 , line 3 , for “ seal " read " seat . " It need scarcely be said that the Staff narrative is PREFACE . vii.
Side vi
... Staff narrative is the basis of this book , which is an endeavour to present its essence in a succinct and readable form . Unhappily , the French accounts are wanting in precision , so that it is difficult to comprehend how they fought ...
... Staff narrative is the basis of this book , which is an endeavour to present its essence in a succinct and readable form . Unhappily , the French accounts are wanting in precision , so that it is difficult to comprehend how they fought ...
Side 3
... Staff , which that able man soon converted into the best equipped and the most effective body of its kind known to history . It rapidly became , what it now is , the brain of the army , alike in quarters and in the field . Finally ...
... Staff , which that able man soon converted into the best equipped and the most effective body of its kind known to history . It rapidly became , what it now is , the brain of the army , alike in quarters and in the field . Finally ...
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1st Brig 2nd Brig 7th Corps advance adversary Amanvillers arrived artillery assailants attack Austria battalions batteries battle Bavarians Bazeilles Benedetti Bitsche Brig brigade camp Canrobert cavalry centre Chalons Chassepot combat command Crown Prince Cuirassiers directed Douay Dragoons Duc de Gramont Ducrot Eleventh Corps Emperor Napoleon enemy Failly Fifth Corps fight fire flank Flavigny Forbach forward France French Army front Frossard German Army Givonne Gravelotte ground Guard guns Gunstett head-quarters hills horse horsemen hour Hussars Imperial infantry King William Ladmirault Leboeuf Major-Gen Marshal Bazaine Marshal MacMahon Metz Meuse military Minister Moltke Moselle moved Napoleon III Nouart numbers o'clock officers Paris Pont à Mousson position Prussian railway ravine rear regiments retired retreat Rezonville Rhine road rode Roncourt Saar Saarbrück Saarlouis Sarreguemines Saxon sent side skirmishers soldiers Spicheren squadrons Staff Steinmetz Stenay stood Strasburg tion troops Uhlans Verdun village Vionville Wimpffen Woerth woods Würtemberg