The Franco-Prussian War: Its Causes, Incidents, and Consequences, Volume 2W. Mackenzie, 1870 - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 |
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... Defence -Proclamation of General Trochu to the National Guard - Sketch of the Sieges of Paris , and Historical and General Description of the Fortifications - Activity displayed in placing the latter in a thorough State of Defence ...
... Defence -Proclamation of General Trochu to the National Guard - Sketch of the Sieges of Paris , and Historical and General Description of the Fortifications - Activity displayed in placing the latter in a thorough State of Defence ...
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... defence of the capital , was appointed governor of Paris . Nothing could have shown more clearly the precarious condition of the empire than this appointment . General Trochu had displayed the qualities of an able soldier and a high ...
... defence of the capital , was appointed governor of Paris . Nothing could have shown more clearly the precarious condition of the empire than this appointment . General Trochu had displayed the qualities of an able soldier and a high ...
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... Defence Committee is invested under the authority of the minister of War with the powers necessary for carrying out the decisions at which it may arrive . 3. For the execution of such decisions our minister of War will attach to the Defence ...
... Defence Committee is invested under the authority of the minister of War with the powers necessary for carrying out the decisions at which it may arrive . 3. For the execution of such decisions our minister of War will attach to the Defence ...
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... defence at the octroi wall . Mortier , in the plain of St. Denis , was also in an all but hope- less condition , though he still kept a brave front to the enemy . The divisions at La Villette were now in the centre of a mass of Russians ...
... defence at the octroi wall . Mortier , in the plain of St. Denis , was also in an all but hope- less condition , though he still kept a brave front to the enemy . The divisions at La Villette were now in the centre of a mass of Russians ...
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... defence of the country . They not to approach the interior of France . That which only did not oppose , but combated in the columns without fortifications was little more than a coup of the National , then their principal organ under de ...
... defence of the country . They not to approach the interior of France . That which only did not oppose , but combated in the columns without fortifications was little more than a coup of the National , then their principal organ under de ...
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advance Alsace ancient arms Artenay artillery attack Baden Basel battalions batteries battle Bavarian Bazaine besiegers bombardment Bourbaki capital capitulation captured castle cathedral cavalry century Chanzy Chassepots Châteaudun church columns command Constanz corps Count von Bismarck D'Aurelles d'Aurelles de Paladine defence despatch division duke emperor enemy erected feet fight fire force fortifications fortress forts France French army front Gambetta garrison German army grand-duke guns honour houses imperial infantry inhabitants investment Jules Favre king Loire Marshal Marshal Bazaine Mecklenburg ment Metz miles military mobiles morning Moselle national guards night o'clock occupied officers Orleans Paris peace population position Prince Frederick Charles prisoners Prussian railway regiment republic retreat Rhine river road Roman ruins Schaffhausen sent shells side siege soldiers sortie Strassburg surrender TAYLOR INSTITUTION Thiers tion tower town treaty Trochu troops valley Versailles victory village Von der Tann walls Werder wounded
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Page 298 - The negligently grand, the fruitful bloom Of coming ripeness, the white city's sheen, The rolling stream, the precipice's gloom, The forest's growth, and Gothic walls between, The wild rocks shaped as they had turrets been, In mockery of man's art ; and these withal A race of faces happy as the scene, Whose fertile bounties here extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though empires near them fall.
Page 182 - That noble, patient, deep, pious, and solid Germany should be at length welded into a nation, and become Queen of the Continent, instead of vapouring, vainglorious, gesticulating, quarrelsome, restless, and over-sensitive France, seems to me the hopefullest public fact that has occurred in my time.
Page 6 - By the grace of God and the national will, Emperor of the French...
Page 299 - As it flows down from the distant ridges of the Alps, through fertile regions into the open sea, so it comes down from remote antiquity, associated in every age with momentous events in the history of the neighbouring nations.
Page 299 - ... and negotiations of modern times, of the coronations of emperors, whose bones repose by its side ; on whose borders stand the two grandest monuments of the noble architecture of the middle ages ; whose banks present every variety of wild and picturesque rocks, thick forests, fertile plains; vineyards, sometimes gently sloping, sometimes perched among lofty crags, where industry has won a domain among the fortresses of nature; whose banks are ornamented with populous cities, flourishing towns...
Page 79 - Men are not wanting. What has failed us has been a decisive resolution and the consecutive execution of our plans. That which failed us after the shameful capitulation at Sedan was arms. All supplies of this nature had been sent on to Sedan, Metz, and Strasburg, as if, one would think, the authors of our disaster, by a last criminal combination, had desired, at their fall, to deprive us of all means of repairing our ruin.
Page 217 - Seine has not yet arrived, but, as far as our intelligence goes, the general outine of the facts is known. ^] You are authorized, in consequence, to say to Lord Granville that we sincerely regret that our troops, in order to avert immediate danger, were obliged to seize ships which belonged to British subjects. We admit their claim to indemnification, and shall pay to the owners...
Page 260 - We, William, by God's grace, King of Prussia, hereby announce that the German Princes and Free Towns having addressed to us a unanimous call to renew and undertake with the re-establishment of the German Empire the dignity of Emperor...