The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire. August-September, 1870G. Bell and sons, 1887 - 362 sider |
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Side 61
... infantry , in complete fighting trim , backed up by enormous trains- should have been brought to specified places on specified days , almost exactly in fulfilment of a scheme reasoned out and drawn up two years before . The French ...
... infantry , in complete fighting trim , backed up by enormous trains- should have been brought to specified places on specified days , almost exactly in fulfilment of a scheme reasoned out and drawn up two years before . The French ...
Side 63
... infantry , and of course the regiments , were hundreds short of their proper strength . Before a shot had been fired , General de Failly , at Bitsche , was obliged to send a demand for coin to pay the troops , adding notes won't pass ...
... infantry , and of course the regiments , were hundreds short of their proper strength . Before a shot had been fired , General de Failly , at Bitsche , was obliged to send a demand for coin to pay the troops , adding notes won't pass ...
Side 86
... infantry divisions , troops of the Line , to which were added , before the end of July , three regiments of Zouaves , and three of native Algerians , which were distributed among the French infantry brigades . There were three brigades ...
... infantry divisions , troops of the Line , to which were added , before the end of July , three regiments of Zouaves , and three of native Algerians , which were distributed among the French infantry brigades . There were three brigades ...
Side 92
... Infantry Corps , and the vexatious delay prevented the horsemen from reaching the front before nightfall . So difficult is it to move dense masses of men , horses , and guns , in accurate succession through a closed country , along ...
... Infantry Corps , and the vexatious delay prevented the horsemen from reaching the front before nightfall . So difficult is it to move dense masses of men , horses , and guns , in accurate succession through a closed country , along ...
Side 93
... infantry ; but he heard the noise of trains , the whistling of engines , and , of course , inferred the movement of troops ; while on the east , nearer the Rhine , the squadrons sent in that direction were turned back both by infantry ...
... infantry ; but he heard the noise of trains , the whistling of engines , and , of course , inferred the movement of troops ; while on the east , nearer the Rhine , the squadrons sent in that direction were turned back both by infantry ...
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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