Tag: Emil Johannes Hünten
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01 Work, The art of War, Emil Hünten’s Battle of Mars-La-Tour, August 16, 1870, with Footnotes
Battles of Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte, (Aug. 16–18, 1870), two major engagements of the Franco-German War in which the 140,000-man French Army of the Rhine, under Marshal Achille-François Bazaine, failed to break through the two German armies under General Helmuth von Moltke and were bottled up in the fortress of Metz. It was followed by the…