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exploding on the surface and the cries of beasts that are found in the dungeons. These shelter not only a hospital, but also toilets, rooms for officers, rooms for the troops, a bakery, a butcher's shop, a well, a stable room, stores of food and ammunition. The 16 and
September 17, 1870, the Germans use four new pieces of campaign to bombard Bitche: they are installed at the edge of the forest of Rothenstieg and on the ground located between the hills of Grand- and Petit-Otterbiel. The bombardments slow down fromSeptember 18, 1870, which does not prevent the French pieces from constantly retaliating. The September 19, 1870, Commander Teyssier decides to reduce the rice ration to forty grams per head per day.
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bombardment are very heavy. The 7,100 German projectiles which fell on Bitche and its citadel sowed death and destruction: of the 390 houses in the city, 121 buildings were completely destroyed and 184 others partially damaged. 135 Bitchois households lose their homes. As for the citadel, all the buildings except the chapel were destroyed by incendiary shells. What motivates the stopping of the German bombardments is an order of the general-governor of Alsace, the count of
Bismarck-Bohlen, who realized that the siege and the bombardment costed too much materials and immobilized too many troops. On his order, the German coins were removed on September 25, 1870.
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the place are awakened by explosions. The third shell falls on the Grosse-Tête of the citadel, more exactly on the prison where several German prisoners are locked up, one of whom is wounded. German fire continued for two hours, causing fifty-two cluster shells and twenty-five incendiary shells to fall on the citadel. As there was no result in the response from the citadel, Colonel
Kohlermann had the fire stopped at seven in the morning and sent a parliamentarian to ask Teyssier again to surrender. The latter reiterates his refusal and Kohlermann understands that he will need a more powerful artillery to reduce the place. Retiring to a bivouac located between
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but the French government neglects to inform the city. On March 12, 1871, a German parliamentarian comes to present
Commander Teyssier with a letter from Jules Favre in which he is ordered to evacuate Bitche with the honors of the war. Three days later, on March 15, 1871, a ceremony takes place at the entrenched camp: the flag made by the city is handed to Teyssier in front of the troops standing at attention and who march shortly after in front of the representatives of the municipality. On this same occasion, Commander Teyssier received a laurel wreath from a committee of ladies from Niederbronn.
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To support the morale of the garrison, Teyssier even organized a fanfare using musical instruments discovered in the boxes of the citadel store. When
Warrant Officer Mondelli returned from Tours on November 18, 1871, many promotions are reported to the besieged. The reshuffle of the regiment is then made with the battalion of the besieged and the other troops in the city: the new 54th Infantry Regiment, with 10 companies of 160 men each, is created. In order to pay the garrison, Teyssier sent a request to the French consul in
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sending beds, mattresses, clothes and food to the people of Bitch. This blockade becomes even more severe by rain and snow. At the beginning of the month of
November 1870, Adjutant Mondelli can escape Bitche to go to Tours and provide pay for the garrison. To alleviate the fate of the troops who camped in tents at the entrenched camp at the foot of Fort Saint-Sébastien, wagons were removed from the station and transferred to this camp to serve as shelters for the soldiers.
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neighboring villages, even by women. and children who bring food there. Four French companies carry out a diversionary exit on the night of
September 29, 1870 and pushed back German approach on the road to Sarreguemines. Another exit on October 2, 1870 results in the fire of the farm of Freudenberg during a skirmish which makes six killed French, six killed German and six wounded German. Other exits are made towards the route to Wissembourg, towards the Cense aux Loups.
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government then telegraphed
Teyssier to leave the city "with the honors of war". Stubborn, the latter rejects the term since there was no bitchoise capitulation. Teyssier claims that since March 11, 1871, he cannot be treated as a prisoner and that the Germans must recognize him "on a mission in Bitche". The Germans in fact demand the evacuation of the citadel without their weapons and the provision of Teyssier to the head of the German troops in Lemberg.
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the north and west of the city. The results of the bombings and the siege were not long in coming: an epidemic of typhus and smallpox broke out among the already severely affected population. Commander
Teyssier organizes transport by ambulanceswith the help of the women of the city and her Sisters of Charity. He improvised a hospital at the College of Augustins and a white flag was hoisted above the Institute transformed into a military hospital.
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survivors of the battle of
Froeschwiller-Woerth. In fact, this motley troop represents exactly 72 different regiments. Numbering 2,400, these soldiers took refuge in part on the citadel and in the entrenched camp in front of Fort Saint-Sébastien. The armament at their disposal is composed of 53 guns of which only 17 are usable. Unlike the enemy troops, the French entrenched in Bitche do not yet have hunting pots but old models with snuff boxes.
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Niederbronn. It does the same with food surpluses. This brings him the sum of 100,000 vintage francs to carry out the imminent evacuation. Details thereof are discussed on March 22, 1871, between the delegates of Teyssier and Kohlermann in a house located beyond the railway line on the road to Strasbourg, but this interview ended in failure, with disagreement reigning over the modalities of the evacuation.
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Teyssier can see that Bitche became the victim of the differences of the two existing government authorities, one in Paris and the other in Bordeaux since she is simply forgotten. In the meantime, Mondelli, a newly appointed captain, was instructed by Teyssier to seek official instructions in Bordeaux where he arrived on February 17, 1871. Captain Mondelli then returned to Bitche with a letter from the
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and transmitted by Colonel Kohlermann who is the leader of the besiegers of Bitche. Teyssier refused any German directive and demanded instructions from the French government. He has already had pieces of 12 and 24 dismantled and transported from the citadel to the station in order to bring them back to France and to withdraw them from the Germans.
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1870, Louis-Casimir Teyssier, a combat experienced French Army officer, was appointed commander of the citadel. He set up his headquarters in the town hall. Prior to assuming command at Bitche, Teyssier commanded an infantry battalion at the city. Before coming to Bitche, he was battalion commander of an infantry regiment in
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The March 9, 1871, the municipal council decides to make make and deliver to the defenders of the city a French flag with the inscription: "The City of Bitche to its defenders - August 8, 1870 - March 12, 1871 ". On March 11, 1871, a codicil concerning Bitche is signed in Ferrières in Seine-et-Marne,
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A new German parliamentarian officially announces the conclusion of an armistice on February 1, 1871. However Teyssier rejects this news as being "worthless" for the bitchoise garrison. On February 5, 1871, two new parliamentarians bring a sealed envelope which contains the French copy of the treaty.
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As the shells continued to fall day and night on the citadel, the French soldiers lost all notion of sleep. Food is rationed, the fire and smoke seize the men by the throat, the water from the well becomes cloudy and the men who have taken refuge in the undergrounds hear only the dull sound of shells
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On the night of 22 to 23 August 1870, the Bavarians hardly installed an artillery battery on the hill of Grand-Otterbiel, located 1,100 meters north of the citadel. This hill has the advantage of being at the same altitude (366 meters) as the citadel. In the morning of 23 August 1870, the besieged of
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and responsible for sending observation patrols in Bitche. The citadel and the entrenched camp no longer sheltered, at that time, more than 2,400 men. To prevent the surviving troops from Wœrth and Forbach from spreading demoralizing rumors among his own troops who had taken refuge in the citadel and
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The Fontanges brigade takes the direction of Saverne while the Albatucci brigade moves towards Bitche. At that time, the bitchoise garrison consisted of 800 soldiers of the 86th, 250 reserve gunners of customs, Guard mobile bitchois, isolated, of lame, of linemen to riders of infantry, of Zouaves and
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consul after he had acquired a building intended to house the legation of his country. The government promptly yielded to its assiduous urges and hastened to rename it Place des États-Unis. As for the place de Bitche, an orphan of location like the city was of France, a decree of August 16, 1881,the
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A rather strange situation takes hold in the besieged and particularly demolished city: at the request of the population supported by the creation of a defense committee, the gates of the city are open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., leaving almost a life "Normal" develop before the eyes of German observers.
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plateau. This diversion allows the French to destroy sites intended for German pieces and to shoot at the bivouacs of the latter. On August 31, 1870, two German parliamentarians presented themselves again at the foot of the citadel with newspapers intended to demonstrate to the besieged the futility
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The civilian population had six deaths, a relatively low figure compared to the extent of the damage suffered. The military defense of Bitche by Commander Teyssier caused a sensation in French military circles, arousing considerable interest in military training to the point of being included for a
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The March 26, 1871, the German troops enter Bitche by the Phalsbourg gate where Commander Teyssier hands over the keys of the place to Colonel Kohlermann. We must mention a very significant fact but very important to describe the state of mind of the people of Bitch at that time. The day before the
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On March 7, 1871, Commander Teyssier then exposes the situation to his troops and the inhabitants of the city. The evacuation of the French troops is decided. In the evening of March 9, 1871, a new German parliamentarian brings to Teyssier with another ultimatum sent by the Count of Bismarck-Bohlen
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and Guillaume I er is under the walls of the capital. Teyssier dismisses the parliamentarian after declaring that he wants proof. The noise of the cannons ceases on September 21, 1870: the shootings on the citadel and on the town of Bitche lasted exactly ten days and ten nights. The results of this
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The locations of the artillery pieces dominate the top of the citadel by about thirty meters: the bombardment can begin. September 11, 1870, the bombardment begins without warning at ten o'clock in the morning with twenty-four pieces starting to spit fire. The citadel immediately responded with its
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at the start of the conflict and despite the army's equipment, it was not prepared for war. Dressed too conspicuously and mis-use of its superior equipment, the French army presented a perfect target for the enemy. The facts will prove later that if the soldiers of the Imperial German army defeated
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in Switzerland. He thus obtained the sum of 50,000 francs at the end of November. It was at this time that 25 French officers left Bitche to join troops inside France, which left the city at the beginning of the month of December 1870 with 79 officers and civil servants, 2,800 soldiers, 2 officers
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But the Germans are on their guard, the element of surprise fails and the fight that follows lasts three hours, finally forcing the French to retreat. The Bavarian losses amount to nine soldiers, two officers and twenty-nine wounded, while Teyssier's soldiers deplore nine killed, sixty-two wounded
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hill after having left an infantry battalion and a squadron of light horses in observation near Bitche. As for the 12th German Division from near Pirmasens, it gains the same day the villages of Lengelsheim and Schorbach, after taking the old road Roman of Walschbronnin Schorbach by the heights of
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According to an account on January 1. 1870, the Citadel of Bitche contained 53 cannons, 4,662 rifles and 1,399,416 cartridges, more than 120 tons of powder and 26,128 large caliber projectiles. When conflict broke out on July 19, 1870, there was no additional supply to the fortress. On July 9,
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and, from six o'clock in the afternoon, the German gunners, overwhelmed by the bitchoise resistance, received the order to bomb the houses of the town spared until then. The vision becomes Dantesque : the buildings on the citadel and the burning houses of the city light up the night, as the
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Colonel Kohlermann summons Teyssier: if the French garrison does not evacuate the city, it will be considered as "usurper of German territory". Large caliber pieces were brought by the Germans to Bitche to intimidate Teyssier and thus signify a possible resumption of the bombardments. The French
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In order to find the money necessary for the start-up of his troops and to remove the equipment from the citadel, Teyssier ordered the destruction of the powder that remained and had the doors, windows and iron gates of the drawbridge demolished and other works to sell the plant metallurgical of
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The next day the September 13, 1870, Mr. Lautenschlager, mayor of the city, asks Commander Teyssier to suspend firing in order to ask Colonel Kohlermann, the leader of the besiegers, to allow those who wish to leave the city. Kohlemann refuses at first, then declares that the population who left
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The October 7, 1870, a new German parliamentarian comes to the citadel. Commander Teyssier instructs the adjutant of the place to have him turned away with the answer: "Any step is useless: we will not give back!". In Sarreguemines and Niederbronn support committees are created which succeed in
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This global population of 4,334 people, although under siege, manages to live almost normally thanks to supplies from the surrounding villages. At the end of the month of January 1871, a newspaper reaches the besieged informing them of the surrender of Paris. Despite this news, the French flag
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The tactic of the besieged French troops is henceforth to harass the Germans by outside patrols. Although they have displayed bilingual signs saying that "Any action and any attempt to supply the square would be punished with death", the town is supplied day and night by the inhabitants of the
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The end of the talks would have concrete and unfortunate consequences when Mondelli again succeeded in contacting Gambetta in Bourges, which decided Teyssier to proceed with the evacuation of the city. Finally, the March 25, 1871, the armed garrison leaves the city taking the flag made by the
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After the departure of these volunteers (including the mayor and the parish priest), Commandant Teyssier appoints a municipal commission chaired by Mr. Lamberton. It should be noted, however, a very important fact: the Germans push back inside the city a group of patients affected by
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would do so on their own responsibility. Teyssier then made arrangements for the evacuation. He is not unhappy to save food for his rationed troops in this way. In thisSeptember 13, 1870, a certain number of Bitchois left the city to settle in the surrounding villages, mainly in
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besiegers. Come Germersheim, it splits equally between Schorbach and Reyersviller while the battalion 4th Infantry meets at the center of the line to farms Simserhof and Légeret. From the artillery heavy is placed in the tile of Hottviller. Place de Bitche is now isolated.
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enjoins the Bitchois troops to send a division without delay to Philippsbourg, seventeen kilometers to the south-west, to join Wissembourg the next day with the rest of the Corps. In the morning of August 6, 1870, Lespart's division leaves the Place de Bitche to go to
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on July 31, 1870, which was a village six kilometers north of Bitche. On August 1, 1870, The light horse of Major von Egloffstein and men of the 12th Prussians under the command of Major Von Parry form a group of fifty soldiers to
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fourteen cannons and the exchange of fire continued most of the day. Near the buildings set ablaze on the citadel, the French guns ceased to reply around noon while the Germans continued their fire until eleven o'clock.
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of their resistance. On Teyssier's orders, Lieutenant Mondelli had them turned away. That same day, the German troops received reinforcements with the order to definitively reduce the inner-city of Bitche.
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and in the entrenched camp at the foot of this fort. To strengthen the morale of his soldiers in the citadel, Teyssier explains to them the strategic importance of Bitche in the event of a German retreat.
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by the Germans and the progression of the 3rd East German Army. He was ordered to assemble all his troops in Bitche. Following these directives, the Lespart division which had advanced to the vicinity of
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German entry, the mayor of Bitche, Mr. Lamberton, had asked his fellow citizens not to boo the Germans for fear of reprisals. After having been French since 1766, the city of Bitche became German.
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Bitche's resistance neutralized the main lines of communication, which considerably hampered the advance of German troops. The 2nd Bavarian Corps then went to Lemberg by taking forest paths by the
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These shots resumed during the night, forcing the citadel to retaliate until the morning of September 12, 1870 at nine. The German guns continued their bombardment on the entrenched camp behind
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on the left of the road to Sarreguemines. The German headquarters are also located not far away, on the Freudenberg farmland. This day is however a day of joy for the Germans who learn of the
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housed a casemate with ten tons of powder in barrels. The fire was brought under control at the last minute, and it is easy to imagine what could have happened if the powder had caught fire.
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initially caused by the German forces on August 8, 1870 to March 26, 1871, where the two nations would sign a armistice. The siege was considered a brave siege under the command of governor
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and having fired a few shells at the citadel, she received a sharp French response. An artilleryman is killed and four others wounded. The piece of artillery destroyed, the
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by taking the steep paths by the Mühlenbach farm. A German hussar was captured at the Mühlenbach farm while treating his injured horse.
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arrived the day before with his 4th Corps from Volmunster in order to cut the road to MacMahon that the Germans still assume Bitche.
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with his 3rd Division consisting of 17th, 27th, 30th and 68th infantry regiments. On July 24, 1870, The German regiment,
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on August 7, 1870. The Germans observed, on the night of 7 to August 8, 1870, that routed French soldiers crossed
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inhabitants for the defenders of their city. Teyssier's troops left Bitche by the railroad: they passed through
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continues to fly over the citadel. The armistice of January 28, 1871 does not modify the situation of the city.
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believed that a Franco-German war is necessary to achieve the unity of Germany for the benefit of Prussia—. The
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and under the direction of an artillery captain, Captain Rossin who retreated shortly after battle.
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relegated in the 19th arrondissement, in the old "place of the Church."
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The Franco-Prussian War.the German Conquest of France in 1870-1871.
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934:Lengelsheim
925: [
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873:In Bitche,
835:Wissembourg
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698:St. Quentin
676:Villersexel
606:Chateauneuf
456:Nompatelize
412:Noisseville
348:Lichtenberg
328:Wissembourg
323:Saarbrücken
1710:Categories
1626:, trang 42
1562:, trang 35
1527:, trang 94
1448:January 18
1408:References
1359:Literature
1301:Sarrebourg
1178:Meisenthal
1166:Baerenthal
820:Eppenbrunn
780:Thionville
750:Background
708:Pontarlier
551:Thionville
511:Le Bourget
486:Châteaudun
384:Gravelotte
368:Strasbourg
353:Phalsbourg
1470:) of the
1456:Louis XIV
1429:năm 1870"
1305:Lunéville
1286:Aftermath
1243:Neuchâtel
1124:Schimberg
1039:Simserhof
991:Hanviller
974:Karlsruhe
940:to reach
938:Schorbach
915:Bavarians
891:Pirmasens
840:Pirmasens
815:Hanviller
616:Beaugency
591:Villepion
531:Coulmiers
471:Châtillon
417:Bazeilles
333:Spicheren
1293:Haguenau
1213:Republic
1198:smallpox
1107:Haguenau
1028:Rosselle
1007:Rosselle
922:Hochkopf
879:Hospital
621:Fréteval
586:Villiers
561:Mézières
491:Sélestat
461:Bellevue
451:Chevilly
434:Soissons
429:Montmédy
407:Beaumont
250:Strength
245:II Corps
57:Location
26:Part of
1464:Emperor
1460:William
1427:tháng 9
1403:, 1992.
1396:, 1992.
1389:, 1989.
1382:, 1984.
1375:, 1988.
1368:, 1990.
1297:Saverne
1170:Lemberg
1079:Lemberg
1043:Légeret
1005:on the
980:Bombing
883:Forbach
881:, near
688:Lisaine
682:Le Mans
666:Bapaume
661:Péronne
641:Epuisay
636:Longeau
626:Vendôme
601:Orléans
526:La Fère
521:Belfort
466:Artenay
397:Buzancy
235:I Corps
156:Bavaria
143:Prussia
1607:France
1468:Kaiser
1342:Legacy
1317:Nevers
944:where
772:Bitche
693:Longwy
671:Rocroi
656:Hallue
631:Pesmes
581:Varize
571:Amiens
536:Havana
476:Verdun
446:Sceaux
402:Nouart
358:Marsal
343:Bitche
258:20,000
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77:Result
70:France
66:Alsace
62:Bitche
1313:Dijon
1217:Paris
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887:Wœrth
651:Tours
611:Buchy
556:Ladon
541:Dreux
516:Dijon
501:Ognon
440:Paris
423:Sedan
338:Wörth
1446:"On
1309:Gray
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1164:and
1105:and
1041:and
989:and
955:and
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885:and
734:The
506:Gray
391:Metz
373:Toul
49:Date
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