The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire, August-September 1870Hooper, George
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The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire, August-September 1870
Hooper, George
Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871; Sedan Campaign, 1870
Liébert, General, 313, 315, 316.
Ligny, 232;
Great Staff and Crown Prince at, 245.
Loftus, Lord Augustus, 46.
Longeville, 241;
camp, 161.
Longuyon, 230.
Longstreet, General (United States), 255.
Lorencez, General de, at Colombey-Nouilly, 153, 155, 157, 162.
Lunéville, 144, 159, 162.
Luxemburg, negotiations, and question, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.
Lavalette, Napoleon’s letter to, 20.
Mack, General, at Ulm, 229.
MacMahon, Marshal, assembling 1st Corps near Strasburg, 68;
scattered condition of command, 84, 85;
at Reichshofen, 89–99;
at Woerth, 109, 112, 114;
back on Sarrebourg, 116;
ordered to Chalons, 134, 135, 138, 144;
still at large, 231;
at Rhetel, 234;
at Chalons, 236, 237;
receives command of army, 238;
moves army to Reims, 240;
on the Aisne, 248;
turns from Stenay to Mouzon, 259;
will pass the Meuse, 265;
near Beaumont, 270, 271, 276, 284;
285;
directs retreat on Sedan, 286, 287;
relations to the Emperor, 288;
account of conduct, 297;
wounded, gives up command, 300;
wound a great misfortune, 303.
Magdeburg and Altmark regiments, losses, 178, 179.
Mainz, 65, 67, 69, 72, 77, 92.
Malancourt, 223, 281.
Malmaison, 177.
Malroy on Moselle, 278.
Manèque, General, mortally wounded at Noisseville, 281.
Mance, brook, 177, 191, 193, 194, 195;
gully, 205;
eastern, 207;
ravine, 214, 216, 217.
Manstein, General von, at Gravelotte, 198–204, 219, 220;
crosses Moselle, 280.
Manteuffel, General Baron von, at Berlin Council, 10;
makes Austrians retreat beyond Elbe, 12;
precaution, 150;
joins in at Colombey-Nouilly, 153, 155;
at Noisseville, 278, 280.
Marbache, 158;
-Custines, 163, 189.
Margueritte, General, 141, 235, 243, 249, 251, 258, 260,
261, 275, 287;
his cavalry, 296, 300, 307;
on the Calvaire d’Illy, 308, 309;
mortally wounded, 313.
Marines, French, in Bazeilles, 298, 305.
Marsal, 148, 232.
Marshals of France, three caged in Metz, 231.
_See_ Bazaine, Canrobert, Lebœuf.
Mars la Tour, French Army directed on, 159, 163, 164;
road from Gravelotte to Verdun passes, 168;
battle of Vionville, 170;
ravine, 181;
German Cavalry at, 183;
German guns hold on near, 183;
cavalry at, 186;
Germans occupy, 191, 197.
Mattstal, 98, 100, 102.
Maxau on the Rhine, 64.
Ménil sur Saulx, letters seized by German cavalry at, 233.
Mensdorff, Count, Austrian Foreign Minister, 9.
Mercy le Haut, or Mercy les Metz, 151, 278.
Metman, General, at Spicheren, 129, 130;
60, 161;
at Vionville, 177;
leaves Rezonville, 191.
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