Category: History - European
1. Woerth—The Battle Begins—Attack on Woerth—Attack on the French Right—Attack on Elsasshausen—MacMahon Orders a Retreat—The Close of the Battle. 2. Spicheren—The Battle-field—The Germans Begin the Fight—The Red Hill Stormed—Progress of the Action—Frossard Retires 96
While Strasburg was enduring the agonies of a siege and bombardment, and the “Army of the Rhine,” already oppressed by “la question des vivres,” was chafing in its restricted ca...
20. CHAPTER IX.Darkness had set in, and the last shot had been fired, when Marshal Bazaine rode back to his head-quarters at Gravelotte. There he became impressed with the scarcity—“penury”—of...
12. CHAPTER I.The Treaty of Prague, the secret military conventions signed at Nikolsburg, the ascendancy secured by Von Bismarck, now elevated to the dignity of a Count, together with the com...
16. CHAPTER V.Alike in Alsace and Lorraine, the actions which made the 6th of August a date so memorable in this swiftly moving war were undesigned on the part of the assailant and unexpected...
22. CHAPTER XI.It has long been a well-authenticated fact that MacMahon’s march eastward from Reims took the German head-quarter staff by surprise. The reason was that they could not believe i...
18. CHAPTER VII.Weary of his task, weakened in body by a painful malady, depressed in mind by a series of disasters, and worried by advice from Paris, the Emperor Napoleon, on the evening of th...
19. CHAPTER VIII.That feebleness and hesitation which had been so conspicuous on the side of the French from the outset of the campaign were not likely to cease when dangers and difficulties inc...
11. CHAPTER XIII.German Decision—Confusion in the French Camp—The Movements of the Germans—The Battlefield of Sedan—The Battle of Sedan—MacMahon’s Wound and its Consequences—Progress of the Batt...
21. CHAPTER X.The huge, stubborn, vehement and bloody conflict waged in the rural tract between the northern edges of the Bois de Vaux and the Forest of Jaumont, which the French Marshal call...
13. CHAPTER II.The great contest, thus precipitated by the formal defiance which Baron Wimpfen bore from Paris to Berlin, excited deep emotion all over the world. The hour had at length struck...
17. CHAPTER VI.Two such staggering and unexpected blows filled the civil population with terror, the aspiring soldiers at head-quarters with anger, and the Imperial Commander-in-Chief with dis...
15. CHAPTER IV.The first blow struck in the war—for the parade at Saarbrück does not deserve the name of a blow—was delivered on the Lauter by the Crown Prince. The French Army in Alsace, comm...
14. CHAPTER III.King William did not reach Mainz until the forenoon of the 2nd of August; and it is characteristically remarked in the official history of the War, that the journey from Berlin...
23. CHAPTER XII.At the very moment when the Army of Chalons, instead of marching on its way to Montmédy, found its Corps huddled together at Sedan, between the river and the Belgian frontier, s...
10. CHAPTER X.The Cavalry Discover the Enemy—Movements of the French—The Marshal Resolves, Hesitates, and Yields—Movements of the Germans—Effects of MacMahon’s Counter-orders—German and Frenc...
9. CHAPTER IX.Marshal Bazaine—The Battlefield of Gravelotte—The German Plans—The Battle of Gravelotte—Prince Frederick Charles at the Front—Steinmetz Attacks the French Left—Operations by the...
5. CHAPTER V.1. Woerth—The Battle Begins—Attack on Woerth—Attack on the French Right—Attack on Elsasshausen—MacMahon Orders a Retreat—The Close of the Battle. 2. Spicheren—The Battle-field—T...
7. CHAPTER VII.The French Propose to Move—The Battle of Colombey-Nouilly—Von Golz Dashes In—The End of the Battle—The French Retreat—The Germans Cross the Moselle—The Cavalry Beyond the Mosell...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Vionville-Mars la Tour—The Vionville Battlefield—The French are Surprised—The Third Corps Strikes In—Arrival of Bazaine—Bredow’s Brilliant Charge—The Fight becomes Stationary—Ar...
1. CHAPTER I.6. CHAPTER VI.3. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER IV.2. CHAPTER II.