FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR OF 1870

From the 9th DIC to the 9th BIMa: 80 years of a brigade... From the 9th DIC to the 9th BIMa: 80 years of a brigade... 2
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The 9th Marine Infantry Brigade, a major formation of the French Army, celebrates its 80th anniversary this year and the 60th anniversary of its establishment in the Grand Ouest. Heir to the "Blue Division" that had distinguished itself in 1870 during the fighting at Bazeilles, the 9th Colonial Infantry Division was established in North Africa in July...
WE The Children of the War - 1939-1945
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Telling in pictures the lives of children under the Occupation is unprecedented. One must trace the stories of these destinies, the most terrible as well as the most ordinary. All the children have in common that they continued to play marbles or with dolls, to enjoy Punch and Judy shows or to build dens in the forest — sometimes even in the internment...
NEW HISTORY OF FRENCH ARTILLERY - A HISTORY OF FRENCH... NEW HISTORY OF FRENCH ARTILLERY - A HISTORY OF FRENCH... 2
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The discovery of the collective weapon that artillery represents, born of the combination of advances in science, technology and tactical innovation in the field. Decisive on the battlefield, artillery nonetheless remains one of the great forgotten subjects of military history. This paradox is, in our country, all the more striking given that French...
MY WAR OF 1870 - Diary of a Prussian Soldier
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From July 1870 to June 1871, Fusilier Fritz Fischer was on campaign: he fought several times, marched a great deal, and discovered a country — France! 2,500 km on foot, around a hundred different billets — some for a single night, others interminable such as the two months spent in the mud before Metz — major battles (Gravelotte, Orléans…) and skirmishes,...
FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles FIGHTING FOR HONOUR - 13 Heroic Battles 2
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Alamo, Sidi-Brahim, Camerone, Bazeilles, Fort de Vaux, the Alcázar of Toledo, Westerplatte, Wizna, Saumur, Bir Hakeim, Les Glières, Iwo Jima, Diên Biên Phu. What do Alamo, Camerone, Iwo Jima, and Bir Hakeim have in common? The determination of the defenders who, without faltering, face an adversary vastly superior in numbers and materiel. Surrounded and...
THE BATTLE OF CHÂTEAUDUN - 18 October 1870
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August–September 1870: as the French army is in full retreat and regular troops are attempting to reorganise, National Guardsmen and francs-tireurs spring up everywhere, inflicting losses on the enemy — admittedly modest, but sufficient for the German high command to decide to eradicate them by intimidating, if necessary, the civilian populations...
Men at War: Chronicles of '70 – Unpublished Testimonies...
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From the regimental postman to the priest, from the Pontifical Zouave to the sailor, discover eight testimonies from the Franco-Prussian War. These texts, published here for the first time, will bring this first modern war to life at ground level: the sieges, the social and political upheavals that led to the episode of the Commune and the collapse of the...
Guides of the Imperial Guard, Napoleon III - 1852-1870 Guides of the Imperial Guard, Napoleon III - 1852-1870 2
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The Guides of the Imperial Guard 1852-1870 « He who has not seen the regiment of the Guides has seen nothing », James de Chambrier could write in 1904. The memory of the Guides is linked to all that is most magnificent in the Second Empire, to that ceremonial splendour of which the reign of Napoleon III provides a last display. It is less through their...
THE NEUVILLOIS DURING "THE TERRIBLE YEAR" 1870-1871
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September 1870... ... Suddenly, as if waking roughly from a good night's sleep, Neuville and Chilleurs-aux-Bois, small towns in the Loiret, were plunged headlong into the War of 1870 and found themselves brushing against history. December 1870... ... Less than three months later, Neuville and Chilleurs, having tried to resist the war and its share of...
GERMAN FORTIFICATIONS IN ALSACE-LORRAINE 1870–1918 GERMAN FORTIFICATIONS IN ALSACE-LORRAINE 1870–1918 2
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1870… Alsace-Lorraine becomes German for nearly half a century. Between 1871 and 1914, the victor built there a powerful fortified system articulated around the strongholds of Strasbourg, Neuf-Brisach, Metz and Thionville. All the new concepts developed in Germany were put into practice there, from the von Biehler forts to the powerful armoured and...
From Sedan to Sedan: A History of the French Army, 1870–1940
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The only history of the French Army from 1870 to 1940. Gathered here in a single volume are the texts of the new revised, corrected and expanded edition of the landmark work by General André Bourachot. The history of the French Army between the two great defeats that marked it indelibly is presented here in the most detailed and scrupulous manner...
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