Battle of Wissembourg

Quand

4 août 1870

Type

Bataille

Coordonnées

49.02° N, 7.95° E

Description

1870 first battle of the Franco-Prussian War

Part of the Franco-Prussian War

The Battle of Wissembourg or Battle of Weissenburg, the first of the Franco-Prussian War, was joined when three German army corps surprised the small French garrison at Wissembourg on 4 August 1870. The defenders, greatly outnumbered, fought stubbornly "especially considering they were surprised and greatly outnumbered, that the French sustained their old renown as fighting men and that the first defeat, although sev…

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