The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire. August-September, 1870G. Bell and sons, 1887 - 362 sider |
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Side 71
... rear the Ninth and Twelfth Corps as a reserve . They were destined to march on the great roads leading from Manheim and Mainz upon Kaiserslautern . The Third Army , or left wing , under the Crown Prince , was made up of the Fifth and ...
... rear the Ninth and Twelfth Corps as a reserve . They were destined to march on the great roads leading from Manheim and Mainz upon Kaiserslautern . The Third Army , or left wing , under the Crown Prince , was made up of the Fifth and ...
Side 75
... of four battalions of foot , several squadrons of horse , and one battery , and the nearest immediate support was some miles to the rear , near Lebach . Colonel von Pestel had held the position from CHAP . III . ] 75 STAGE THUNDER .
... of four battalions of foot , several squadrons of horse , and one battery , and the nearest immediate support was some miles to the rear , near Lebach . Colonel von Pestel had held the position from CHAP . III . ] 75 STAGE THUNDER .
Side 76
... rear . At other points on the river the French had failed to pass , but in the evening they sent parties into Saarbrück , then unoccupied . The French in this skirmish lost 86 , and the Prussians , 83 officers and men killed and wounded ...
... rear . At other points on the river the French had failed to pass , but in the evening they sent parties into Saarbrück , then unoccupied . The French in this skirmish lost 86 , and the Prussians , 83 officers and men killed and wounded ...
Side 79
... rear . There was not a point between Pirmasens and Saarlouis which escaped the notice of these vigilant and tireless horsemen . Behind them came the masses of the First and Second Armies , which latter , on the 4th , had passed " the ...
... rear . There was not a point between Pirmasens and Saarlouis which escaped the notice of these vigilant and tireless horsemen . Behind them came the masses of the First and Second Armies , which latter , on the 4th , had passed " the ...
Side 81
... rear of the left at Les Etangs . The position of the cavalry it is difficult to determine , but they were not where they should have been - feeling for and watching the enemy . Nor is it easy to ascertain the numerical strength of the ...
... rear of the left at Les Etangs . The position of the cavalry it is difficult to determine , but they were not where they should have been - feeling for and watching the enemy . Nor is it easy to ascertain the numerical strength of the ...
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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