The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire. August-September, 1870G. Bell and sons, 1887 - 362 sider |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 51
Side iii
... military conditions and results of the two catastrophes . The materials at the disposal of any author who ven- tures to narrate the campaign are abundant and yet incomplete . The History of the War prepared by the German Staff is minute ...
... military conditions and results of the two catastrophes . The materials at the disposal of any author who ven- tures to narrate the campaign are abundant and yet incomplete . The History of the War prepared by the German Staff is minute ...
Side 1
... mere survival of a great military organization . He found a united people , and an army surpassing in com- pleteness , as it did in armaments - the victors of Prague , 67 B Rosbach , and Leuthen . The Germany known to the INTRODUCTION.
... mere survival of a great military organization . He found a united people , and an army surpassing in com- pleteness , as it did in armaments - the victors of Prague , 67 B Rosbach , and Leuthen . The Germany known to the INTRODUCTION.
Side 3
... military system . For this step , at least from a Prussian standpoint , there was good reason ; since the kingdom , although it was based on a strong and compact nucleus , was , as a whole , made up of scattered fragments lying between ...
... military system . For this step , at least from a Prussian standpoint , there was good reason ; since the kingdom , although it was based on a strong and compact nucleus , was , as a whole , made up of scattered fragments lying between ...
Side 4
... military reforms designed by the King and his advisers aroused an uncompromising opposition in the native Parliament , which was only overcome by the firmness with which King William supported his outspoken and audacious Minister . The ...
... military reforms designed by the King and his advisers aroused an uncompromising opposition in the native Parliament , which was only overcome by the firmness with which King William supported his outspoken and audacious Minister . The ...
Side 5
... military institutions of Prussia , dating back from the " new model , " devised during the stress of the Napoleonic Wars , had been fundamentally altered . Nothing was done except to increase the numbers , close up and oil the machinery ...
... military institutions of Prussia , dating back from the " new model , " devised during the stress of the Napoleonic Wars , had been fundamentally altered . Nothing was done except to increase the numbers , close up and oil the machinery ...
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire. August-September, 1870 George Hooper Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1887 |
The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire. August-September, 1870 George Hooper Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1887 |
The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire, August-September 1870 George Hooper Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1916 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
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