This battle was referred to in the last words of a ruler when he told his doctor, Henri Conneau, that "we were not cowards"here.
This battle was referred to in the last words of a ruler when he told his doctor, Henri Conneau, that "we were not cowards"here. Before this battle, another commander remarked "we are in a chamber pot, and about to be shit upon." That man tried totake command after his superior was wounded, but a secret letter produced by general Emmannuel Felix de Wimpffen showedthat he'd been appointed by the war minister to take over. He refused to surrender, even after three failed cavalry charges fromgeneral Margueritte on the village of Floing. This battle, a loss for the army under Auguste Ducrot, came shortly a.er battlesat Beaumont and Gravelotte, and was part of a campaign to relieve the besieged Marshal Bazaine at Metz. For 10 points, namethis contest where the army of General MacMahon was destroyed by Helmuth von Moltke, which was the decisive battle ofthe Franco-Prussian War.
This battle was referred to in the last words of a ruler when he told his doctor, Henri Conneau, that "we were not cowards"here.
Battle of Sedan