Excerpt from Short Tactical Studies: I. The Battle of Wӧrth, August 6th, 1870 The ridge cast of Worth, which had been surveyed and reported on so early as 1818 as an excellent flank position against an invasion of Alsace, is a spur of the Vosges Mountains. The Vosges in this district nowhere attain a height of more than 1550 feet; but they are covered with forest from crest to foot, broken up into many parallel ridges, and traversed by few roads. The passes are narrow, the slopes steep; and the range, 16 - 20 miles in breadth, constitutes a formidable military obstacle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.