Battle of Longeau

Battle of Longeau
Part of Franco-Prussian War

Stele of the Mobiles
Date16 December 1870[1][2]
Location
Longeau-Percey, Haute-Marne, France[3]
Result German victory[4][5]
Belligerents
 French Republic

 North German Confederation

Commanders and leaders
General Arbellot [6]
Stanislaus Koch †[5]		 August von Werder[7]
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz[8]
Strength
2,000 – 6,000 troops and 4 cannons[9][5] 6,500 troops and 15 cannons[5][9]
Casualties and losses
200 wounded, 50 captured, 2 artillery pieces and 2 ammunition wagons captured[10] 20 casualties (4 killed and 15 wounded, 1 officer)

The Battle of Longeau,[11] was a battle of the Franco-Prussian War[9] on 16 December 1870[4] in Longeau-Percey, near Dijon, France.[3] The fighting lasted about three hours,[12] and ended in a French retreat. Victory went to the Prussian Infantry Brigade under Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz and the German XIV Corps infantry under the command of Lieutenant General August von Werder,[9] over French troops commanded by General Pierre Arbellot de Vacqueur, semt from Langres to Longeau.[4][13] The French suffered significant losses of both manpower and equipment.[12]

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  2. ^ Colmar Goltz (Freiherr von der), The nation in arms, Page 343
  3. ^ a b Georges-Ernest-Jean-Marie Boulanger, L'invasion allemande, Volume 3, Page 2234
  4. ^ a b c Wilhelm Rüstow, The war for the Rhine frontier, 1870: Its political and military history, Volume 1, Page 188
  5. ^ a b c d Joseph Mills Hanson, The Marne: historic and picturesque, Page 41
  6. ^ Eugène Désiré Édouard Sergent, L'armée de l'Est: relation anecdotique de la campagne de 1870-71, d'après de nombreux témoignages oculailes et de nouveaux documents, Volume 2, Volume 137
  7. ^ Johannes Baumgarten, Handbuch der französischen Sprache und Litteratur für Polytechniker: eine Sammlung gediegener und interessanter Abhandlungen und aufsätze aus der neuesten polytechnischen Litteratur Frankreichs nebst militärischen studien und Schilderungen von französischen darstellern des letzten Krieges. Mit Anmerkungen und Sacherklärungen..., Page 382
  8. ^ "Men who have made the new German empire. A series of brief biographic sketches"
  9. ^ a b c d August Niemann, The French campaign, 1870-1871: Military description, Page 377
  10. ^ "The Franco-German War of 1870—71" (Helmuth Von Moltke)
  11. ^ Dominique Auzias, Pascaline Ferlin, Jean-Paul Labourdette, Guide des lieux de mémoire: champs de bataille, cimetières militaires, musées, mémoriaux (Guide to Historical Sites: Battlefields, Military Cemeteries, Museums, Memorials), Page 102
  12. ^ a b Edmund Ollier, Cassell's history of the war between France and Germany, 1870-1871, Page 69
  13. ^ Eugène Désiré Édouard Sergent, L'armée de l'Est: relation anecdotique de la campagne de 1870-71, d'après de nombreux témoignages oculaires et de nouveaux documents (The Army of the East: Anecdotal Account of the 1870-71 Campaign, According to Numerous Eyewitness Testimonies and New Documents), Volume 2, Page 137