The Campaign On The Loire, 1870-1871 by Barry, Quintin, Like New Used, Free P...

by Barry, Quintin

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The Campaign On The Loire, 1 by Barry, Quintin, ISBN 1804517828, ISBN-13 9781804517826, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK The campaign on the Loire was in many ways the most dramatic, and most important, of the various campaigns of the German army during the winter of 1. It was fought for the most part in dreadful weather conditions which subjected its participants to extremes of physical hardship. The culmination of the campaign was the battle of Le Mans, and this tested the aimies on both sides to an even greater extent than the months which had gone before. With the collapse of the Second Empire after the crushing French defeat at Sedan on September 1 1870, it was widely assumed that it would not be long before the Franco-Prussian War came to an end. This assumption, while understandable, proved entirely incorrect. The hastily assembled Government of National Defence unexpectedly succeeded in raising very substantial forces, organised with the aim of relieving Paris, now besieged by the advancing German armies. Inevitably, these new French forces lacked the training and discipline of their adversaries, and in many instances were not well led. Nonetheless, in the autumn and winter of 1, the offered a serious threat to the besieging armies, advancing as they did from several directions. The author has previously examined two of the campaigns directed to the relief of the capital. In The Somme, 1: The Winter Campaign in Picardy, he traced the campaign of the Army of the North

• Year: 1870
• ISBN: 9781804517826
• Condition: Fine

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