Tag: Mars-La-Tour
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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…
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01 Work, The art of War, Pierre Georges Jeanniot’s La ligne de feu/ The line of fire, with Footnotes
The Battle of Mars-la-Tour was fought on 16 August 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, near the village of Mars-La-Tour in northeast France. One Prussian corps, reinforced by two more later in the day, encountered the entire French Army of the Rhine in a meeting engagement and, following the course of battle, the Army of the Rhine…