The Battle of Wörth, August 6th, 1870
Author | : George Francis Robert Henderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Wörth, Battle of, 1870 |
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Author | : George Francis Robert Henderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Wörth, Battle of, 1870 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Francis Robert Henderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 77 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 |
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Author | : L. J. Marcy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Lantern projection |
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Author | : Glen C. Forrest |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2011-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 144884794X |
Chronicles battles, military campaigns, and wars throughout history, from the skirmishes of the first empires of ancient Mesopotamia to the armed conflicts in the Middle East being waged today.
Author | : George Francis Robert Henderson |
Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
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ISBN | : 9781230330600 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...with the flying foe, and carried the Elsasshausen Copse. The French line was now forced back on Elsasshausen and the road which runs through it east and west. 4 battalions of Pelle's Division and 2 batteries of mittrailleuses were brought up, and for some short time they still held on to the blazing village and the ridge westward. " The French artillery (4 batteries)," says the German Official Account, "played so effectively upon the N. edge of the Niederwald and the Copse, that the Prussians had to choose between a further advance, or the relinquishment of the ground that had been won at such heavy sacrifice. Against the former alternative was the consideration that the troops were exhausted, that their unity had been broJcen in the previous struggles, and that there were only 3 intact battalions in reserve. On the other hand, any pause in the attack would relieve the enemy, and enable him to turn with his whole force on the V. Army Corps." Capture or Elsasshausen. A further advance, before order had been restored, was undoubtedly a most risky proceeding. But the German generals were not yet at the end of their resources. Their infantry, for the moment, had been brought to a standstill, and was practically thrown on the defensive. A new phase of battle had opened. The French now occupied a concentrated position; threatened indeed on three sides, but formidable in this, that the two villages formed strong rallying points, and that their guns were at last able to lend effective support to the infantry. The attack against such a position must needs be prepared, and the means for so doing were at hand. Von Bose, when his troops entered the Niederwald, had ordered the whole of his artillery to march north by the Hagenau high-road. Von...