German Invasion (Franco-Prussian War)
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Was the invasion of the Second French Empire by an alliance of German states during the Franco-Prussian War. The French defeat at Sédan (1870) caused the fall of the French Empire.
Chronology
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August 1870: Battle of Wissembourg.
September 1870: The Battle of Sedan in northeastern France during September 1-2, 1870, was the most important engagement of the Franco-Prussian War). The battle brought the French Empire to an end and decided the outcome of the war.
August 1870: Battle of Beaumont.
August 1870: Battle of Wörth.
September 1870: Battle of Borny-Colombey.
August 1870: Upon learning from captured Prussian soldiers and a local area police chief that the Prussian Crown Prince's Third Army was just 48 km north from Saarbrücken near the Rhine river town Wissembourg, General Le Bœuf and Napoleon III decided to retreat to defensive positions. General Frossard, without instructions, hastily withdrew his elements of the Army of the Rhine in Saarbrücken back across the river to Spicheren and Forbach.
September 1870: Battle of Noisseville.
August 1870: Siege of Phalsbourg (1870).
August 1870: On the late afternoon of 14 August the leading Prussian VII Corps of First Army attacked the French forces still east of the Moselle in the battle of Borny (also known as Borny-Colombey or Colombey-Nouilly from the chain of villages to the east of Metz).
August 1870: Siege of Strasbourg.
August 1870: Siege of Toul.
August 1870: Siege of Metz.
September 1870: When the news of the surrender at Sedan of Napoleon III and 80,000 men arrived, the Second Empire was overthrown by a popular uprising in Paris, which forced the proclamation of a Provisional Government and a Third Republic by general Trochu, Favre and Gambetta on 4 September. The new government called itself the Government of National Defence.
September 1870: Siege of Toul.
September 1870: Siege of Strasbourg.
December 1870: Siege of Phalsbourg (1870).
August 1870: Battle of Mars-la-Tour.
August 1870: Battle of Gravelotte.
September 1870: Battle of Mars-la-Tour.
August 1870: Battle of Spicheren.
September 1870: Siege of Metz.
August 1870: Siege of Bitche (1870-1871).
Selected Sources
B. Stephen (2003): The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871, Osprey Publishing, p.37
B. Stephen (2003): The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871, Osprey Publishing, p.43
B. Stephen (2003): The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871, Osprey Publishing, p.54
B. Stephen (2003): The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871, Osprey Publishing, p.65
B. Stephen (2003): The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871, Osprey Publishing, pp.36,37
B. Stephen (2003): The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871, Osprey Publishing, pp.38,40
B. Stephen (2003): The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871, Osprey Publishing, pp.43-46
B. Stephen (2003): The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871, Osprey Publishing, pp.61-65
Graf von Moltke, H. (2022): The Franco-German War of 1870-71, Good Press, p.82
Graf von Moltke, H. (2022): The Franco-German War of 1870-71, Good Press, pp.2, 4
Tucker, S.C. (2011) Battles that changed History - An Encyclopedia of World Conflict, ABC-CLIO, p.359
Von Tiedemann, B. (1877): The siege operations in the campaign against France, 1870-71, London : Her majesty's stationery office, p. 110
Von Tiedemann, B. (1877): The siege operations in the campaign against France, 1870-71, London : Her majesty's stationery office, p. 21
Von Tiedemann, B. (1877): The siege operations in the campaign against France, 1870-71, London : Her majesty's stationery office, p. 96
Von Tiedemann, B. (1877): The siege operations in the campaign against France, 1870-71, London : Her majesty's stationery office, pp. 67-68, 84-85
