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My Days of Adventure: The Fall of France, 1870-1871

My Days of Adventure: The Fall of France, 1870-1871

Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

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Biographies GeneralFrench HistoryGeneral Military History

ISBN10: 1985036630
ISBN13: 9781985036635
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 15 2018
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
While this volume is largely of an autobiographical character, it will be found to contain also a variety of general information concerning the Franco-German War of 1870-71, more particularly with respect to the second part of that great struggle-the so-called People's War which followed the crash of Sedan and the downfall of the Second French Empire. If I have incorporated this historical matter in my book, it is because I have repeatedly noticed in these later years that, whilst English people are conversant with the main facts of the Sedan disaster and such subsequent outstanding events as the siege of Paris and the capitulation of Metz, they usually know very little about the manner in which the war generally was carried on by the French under the virtual dictatorship of Gambetta. Should England ever be invaded by a large hostile force, we, with our very limited regular army, should probably be obliged to rely largely on elements similar to those which were called to the field by the French National Defence Government of 1870 after the regular armies of the Empire had been either crushed at Sedan or closely invested at Metz. For that reason I have always taken a keen interest in our Territorial Force, well realizing what heavy responsibilities would fall upon it if a powerful enemy should obtain a footing in this country. Some indication of those responsibilities will be found in the present book.

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