THE BATTLE OF CHÂTEAUDUN - 18 October 1870
THE BATTLE OF CHÂTEAUDUN - 18 October 1870

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 supporting them. On 18 October 1870, in the small, quiet town of Châteaudun in Eure-et-Loir, 1,200 francs-tireurs, National Guardsmen and firefighters, with no cavalry and no artillery, faced for half a day 6,500 men of the German 22nd Infantry Division in an unequal and symbolic engagement, inflicting negligible losses on the enemy, yet keeping the memory and the remembrance of that fight alive across the whole country.

Why and how did it happen? This is what this book attempts to explain, drawing on numerous sources scattered across archives and libraries. It is thus that a handful of francs-tireurs and National Guardsmen, almost in spite of themselves, entered History, preceding the Jean Moulins, the Charles Tillons, the Gabriel Péris and all the others.

 

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Author 1
Pierre-Henri Zaidman
Publication date
27/02/2023
Pages
282
Cover
Paperback
Language
French
Publisher
L'Harmattan
EAN
9782140333149

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