The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire, August-September 1870
CHAPTER VIII.
THE FRENCH RETREAT THWARTED.
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—Arrival of the Tenth Corps—The Great Cavalry Combat—End of the Battle 167