Battle of Monnaie

Battle of Monnaie
Part of Franco-Prussian War
DateDecember 20, 1870[1]
Location
Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, France[2]
Result German Victory[3][4]
Belligerents
 French Republic

 North German Confederation

Commanders and leaders
Ferry Pisani[5] Konstantin von Voigts-Rhetz[3]
Emil von Schwartzkoppen
Units involved
Garde Mobile 19th Division
Strength
6,000 troops , 6 field artillery[3] 12,000 - 14,000 troops, 24 cannons[3]
Casualties and losses
Unknown "High Casualties"[3]

The Battle of Monnaie,[6] also known as the Battle of Tours[7] was a battle of the Franco-Prussian War.[8] It took place on the December 20, 1870 at[1] Indre-et-Loire, France.[5] During this engagement, a Hanover division of the Imperial German Army under the command of General Schwarzkoppen, belonging to Legion X under the command of Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz attacked and won the victory against an army of Garde Mobile's[2][3][4] 234 led by General Ferry Pisani, driving the French to Langreais.[5] This victory allowed the Germans to enter and occupy the city of Tours.[3]

  1. ^ a b Wilhelm Hufnagel, Über Resectionen des Ellbogen- und Schultergelenkes nach Schusswunden: Inaug. Dissertation, Page 52
  2. ^ a b Wilhelm Rüstow, The war for the Rhine frontier, 1870: Its political and military history, Volume 1, Pages 62-63.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Edmund Ollier, Cassell's history of the war between France and Germany, 1870-1871, Volume 2, Page 86
  4. ^ a b Daily News (London), Daily News, London, The war correspondence of the Daily news, 1870, Page VIII
  5. ^ a b c Journal, Volume 27, Page 681
  6. ^ Reginald Welbury Jeffery, The new Europe: 1789-1899; with short notes, bibliographies, biographies, diagrams, and maps, Page 347
  7. ^ Franco-Prussian war, Chronik des deutsch-französischen Krieges 1870 (-71)., Page 205
  8. ^ "The French Campaign, 1870-1871: Military Description"