Germans in France report from Sedan front lines
Eyewitness excerpts describe famine and exposure on the Meuse island near Iges and Bouillon bread distribution to French troops. Cavalry horses die in river, corpses drift, and French ambulance operations struggle for medicines as prisoners and civilians suffer across the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bouillon
Jeland
International Society
Menge
Iges
Legrand
Sedan
Meuse
France
Noted War Facts from Magdeburg to Sedan
Reports detail virulent smallpox among French prisoners in Magdeburg and Wittenberg. French war matériel captured at Sedan includes 100,000 Quassepots and 80,000 awt. of powder. German losses at Vionville on Tuesday August 16 total 17,000 killed wounded or missing. Prussia plans to memorialise other powers over Geneva Convention violations by France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Paul Cassagnac
Baron Stoffel
Berlin
Paris
London
de Failly
Mayence
Breslau
Bonn
Wiesbaden
Dusseldorf
Deutz
Germany
Palikao
Wesel
Cologne
Russia
Department of the Seine
M. Bombonnel
Neufchateau
Baden
Metz
Gravelotte
Bazaine
MacMahon
Meuse
Daily News
Steinmetz
Spicheren
Forbach
Moltke
Kreuzeitung
Prussia
Seden
Bon Frére
William
General Failly
Mac- Mahon
Luneville
Lorraine
Bonin
Silesia
Tur GerMans II Algack
Alsace
Wurtemberg
Heidelberg
Edgar Woening
Chauvin
Hagenau
France
Gaul
Seneschal
Truchsess
Mundachenk
Frankfort
Freency
Marshal Leboeuf
Tue Bugnina
Bazeilles
Duke de Fitzjames
Sedan
Chalons
Prince de Sagan
International Society For
Beaumont
Schooler
Magdeburg
Wittenberg
Vionville
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Herr Wickede
Nancy
Stanislaus of
Poland
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