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counterparts which would later contribute to
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has received his baptism of fire; he was admirably cool and a little impressed. A division of
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managed to cross the Saar River by 2 August 1870, they encountered small
Prussian detachments at the outskirts of the town but was not delayed in their attempts to seize the garrison. Major fighting eventually broke out later that day, the 40th Prussian Regiment of the
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The battle was by no means a deciding factor of the war. The French seizure of Saarbrücken nonetheless proved the reliability and accuracy of the
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439:Noisseville
375:Lichtenberg
355:Wissembourg
350:Saarbrücken
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1051:Categories
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873:References
809:Saar River
783:Background
735:Pontarlier
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538:Le Bourget
513:Châteaudun
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395:Strasbourg
380:Phalsbourg
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856:Aftermath
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643:Beaugency
618:Villepion
558:Coulmiers
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444:Bazeilles
360:Spicheren
1035:11 April
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767:and the
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