Battle of Gravelotte
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The Battle of Gravelotte on 18 August 1870 was the largest battle of the Franco-Prussian War. Named after Gravelotte, a village in Lorraine, it was fought about 6 miles west of Metz, where on the prev
The Cemetery of St. Privat by Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville c. 1881
The "Rifle Battalion 9 from Lauenburg" at Gravelotte, painting by Ernst Zimmer
French and German forces at 14:45.
French Cuirassiers in Metz
Siege of Metz (1870)
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The Siege of Metz was a siege fought during the Franco-Prussian War from 19 August to 27 October 1870, and ended in a decisive allied German victory.
Battle of Gravelotte
…Metz fortress on the morning of 19 August. The German victory at Gravelotte ended Bazaine's army's last chance of retreating west to Verdun. After a siege lasting over two months, the Army of the Rhine surrendered on 27 October 1870. The German Second Army, commanded by Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia…
One of the Metz forts under German occupation after the French surrender
Defence of Metz by the French Army – painting by Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville
The Surrender of the French Army at Metz, Conrad Freyberg (1876)