Orne, the river, 193, 195, 208; cantonments on, 246. Operations, German and French, August 29th, 259, 260, 261. Palatinate, the, possible irruption into, 70. Pagny, 163. Palikao, Comte de, General, Montauban, 81, 137; made by Empress Minister of War, 235; collects new army, 235; telegram to, from Emperor, 239; views, 240, 242; responsible for disaster, 251; insists on help for Bazaine, 252, 253; utter ignorance of situation, 254, 276; and Wimpffen, 288, 324, 336. Pallières, General Martin des, 298. Pange, French position, 136, 140, 142, 143, 149, 152. Pape, Major-General von, 203; Guard prepared to attack St. Marie, 208, 209; at St. Marie, 219, 220; his Guards’ attack on St. Privat, 222. Paradol, Prévost, view of the war, and suicide, 54, 55. Paris, remonstrances from, 135; and Parisians, 146; army of the Rhine facing, 193; placed in state of defence, 233; fears of uncovering, 240; newspaper informs Moltke, 245; road to, 246; orders from, to MacMahon, 252, 253; ready for revolution, 285; Wimpffen at, 287. Parliament, Prussian, opposition to army reform, 4. Péchot, General, falls on Saxons, 210; “valiant officer” attempts to stop enemy, 224. Pellé, General, takes command on Douay’s death, 88; at Woerth, 99. Pestel, Colonel von, at Saarbrück, 73. Pfaffenwald, the, 125. Pfordten, von der, Bavarian Minister, signs secret treaty, 14. Phalsbourg, 115, 143, 144; French fortress untaken, 283. Pietri, M., telegraphs to Empress, 238. Pirmasens, 69, 77, 86. Plappeville, fort, 194; Guard at, 195; guns not heard at, 214, 215. Podbielski, General von, 245, 246; at conference of Cheméry, 295; with King William, 321; at Donchery meeting, 326. Point du Jour farm, 191, 194; quarries below, 205; burnt, 206, 207; Steinmetz hopes to capture, 212; repulses attack, 214; attempts to storm, 217. Poix, 156; German guns at, 279, 293. Pommérieux, 165. Pont à Mousson, 141, 142, 143; Prince Frederick Charles at, 158; 163, 171; Royal head-quarters, 189; Moltke starts for, 197; Moltke at, 283. Porru au Bois, Prussian Guard in, 292. Possesse, 232. Pouilly, Germans at, 275; bridge constructed, 291. Preuil, General du, at Vionville, 175. Preuschdorf, 104. Provisions, French scarcity of, 243. Prussia, King of. _See_ William I. Prussian Army, now German, characteristics of, 5, 6; victories in Denmark with needle-gun, 7; augmented, 8; mobilizing, 11, 12; enters Austria, fights Sadowa, 13. Prusso-Italian Alliance, 10. Puttelange, Castagny marches to, 129; French generals assemble at, 130. Puxieux, 163, 164. Quarries of Amanvillers and St. Hubert, 192, 205, 217, 218. Quatre Champs, 258. Queleu, Fort, Metz, 141, 148.