Metz, 68, 76, 79, 82, 92, 93; defences incomplete, 94; disorder and consternation in, 131–135; entire army moves back on, 136; (Colombey battle), 151, 152; excitement in, 159; Bazaine’s army moves nearer to, 188; shutting up in, not thought of, 190; Bazaine’s theory about, 192; French Army by, 193, 195, 197; Steinmetz’s mistaken hope of driving French into, 212; magnetism of stronghold like, 229, 230; blockade of, 231, 239, 241, 242, 244–246; two corps sent back to, 257; army, 277; military situation about, 282; fortress, 283, 336. Metz, road from, to Strasburg, 67; from Mainz to, 67; road at Spicheren, 128; railway, 129; roads out of, 159; road to, 194; and Montmédy road closed, 292. Meurthe, valley of the, 144, 158, 232. Meuse, the, 134, 136, 171, 189, 232; MacMahon near, 234; crossing at Stenay, 242, 246; Verdun, 248, 249; MacMahon’s army ordered to, 253; Germans on, 256, 257, 260, 262; French Corps on left bank, 263, 270, 271, 273; dammed to fill Sedan ditches, 274; 280, 285, 286, 289; passage at Mouzon held by Saxon Crown Prince, 292; pontoon over, 294; 295; loop of, 296; roads near, 307. Mexico expedition, 7. Mey, village (Colombey-Nouilly), 151–156. Mézières, route for Chalons, 242; MacMahon to retreat on, 251–253, 255, 257; French to be cut off from, 286; retreat to, given up, 290, 295, 297, 301, 303; road, 307. Michel, General, unique telegram, 62; at Woerth, 107, 108; charges of his Cuirassiers, 109; cavalry, 296. Mitchell, M. Robert, 48, 50. _Mobiles_, unfurnished with munitions, 132; bad behaviour of, returned to Paris, 236; reasons for, 238. Mobilization, French, 59; defects and difficulties, 60–63. Mobilization, German, 2, 3, 57, 58, 59.