The siege of Marsal was a battle of the Franco-Prussian War on August 13 to 14[8][3] between the French Empire and the combined German forces of Prussia and Bavaria in Marsal.[9] Under the command of Lieutenant General Jakob von Hartmann,[4] after replacing the Prussian 4th Cavalry Division, II Corps of the Kingdom of Bavaria forced the surrender of the French Empire's defenses,[3][8] after a brief resistance by the French troops stationed at the fortress.[10] Marsal fell to the German army in the same period as the French fortresses of Lichtenberg, La Petite-Pierre and Vitry.[11] With the quick victory of the Bavarian army at Marsal,[3] the road from Dieuze to Nancy was open to the Germans. In addition, the siege also brought the Germans a lot of raw materials for the war,[8] as well as hundreds of prisoners[1] (including some officers of the French army).[8]
- ^ a b Frederick III, German Emperor, The war diary of the Emperor Frederick III, 1870-1871, original: "An old fortress of the days of Vauban, Marsal by name, has to-day surrendered without loss of time to the Bavarians, whereby 250 prisoners and some fifty guns, together with a large number of muskets, fell into our hands...".
- ^ a b c d Wilhelm Rüstow, The war for the Rhine frontier, 1870: its political and military history, Volume 1, pages 297-298.
- ^ a b c d "Men who have made the new German empire. A series of brief biographic sketches"
- ^ a b Charles Kendall Adams, Johnson's universal cyclopaedia, Episode 4.
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- ^ a b "The Franco-German War, 1870-1871..."
- ^ a b c d e "The siege operations in the campaign against France, 1870-71."
- ^ "The earth and its inhabitants.."
- ^ "The Franco-German War of 1870—71" (of the Marshal Helmuth Von Moltke)
- ^ Edmund Ollier, Cassell's history of the war between France and Germany, 1870-1871, page 321
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