The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire. August-September, 1870

1st Brig 2nd Brig 7th Corps advance adversary Amanvillers arrived artillery assailants attack Austria battalions batteries battle Bavarians Bazeilles Benedetti Bitsche Brig brigade camp Canrobert centre Chalons Chassepot combat command Crown Prince Cuirassiers directed Douay Dragoons Duc de Gramont Ducrot Eleventh Corps Emperor Napoleon enemy Failly Fifth Corps fight fire flank Flavigny Forbach forward France French Army front Frossard German Army Givonne Gravelotte ground Guard guns Gunstett head-quarters hills horse horsemen hour Hussars Imperial infantry King William Ladmirault Lebach Major-Gen Marshal Bazaine Marshal MacMahon Metz Meuse military Minister Moltke Moselle moved Napoleon III Nouart numbers o'clock officers Paris Pont à Mousson position Prussian railway ravine rear regiments retired retreat Rezonville Rhine road rode Roncourt Saar Saarbrück Saarlouis Sarreguemines Saxon sent side skirmishers soldiers Spicheren squadrons Staff Steinmetz Stenay stood Strasburg tion troops Uhlans Verdun village Vionville Wimpffen Woerth woods Würtemberg