Destruction of the Imperial Army
Shortly after noon on the 2nd August 1870 the Emperor Napoleon III, accompanied by his 14-year-old son the Prince Imperial, two generals and six officers of his tat-major rode out onto the old Drill…
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Shortly after noon on the 2nd August 1870 the Emperor Napoleon III, accompanied by his 14-year-old son the Prince Imperial, two generals and six officers of his tat-major rode out onto the old Drill Ground overlooking the small Prussian border town of Saarbrcken. To his right 8,600 men of General Frossard's 2nd Corps of the Army of the Rhine swept down from the Spicheren Heights, shook themselves out into formation, and advanced swiftly to the attack.After little more than an hour's brisk exchange of rifle fire the heavily outnumbered Prussians withdrew in orderly fashion and retreated across the river Sarre. With spirits buoyed by the sight of his troop's victory, later that evening Napoleon proudly telegraphed the Empress Eugnie in Paris to inform her that their son had received his 'baptism of fire.' In Paris the Journal Officiel excitedly announced that the 'French Army
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