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Identifier: onehundredyearso00morr (find matches)
Title: One hundred years of conflict between the nations of Europe, the causes and issues of the great war;
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Printed by G. F. Lasher & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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O ft 9 w ft THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR 285 field. Of the troops that had been set free by the capitulation ofMetz, a part remained behind in garrison, another divisionmarched northwards in order to invest the provinces of Picardyand Normandy, to restore communication with the sea, and tobar the road to Paris, and a third division joined the second army,whose commander-in-chief, Prince Frederick Charles, set up hisheadquarters at Troyes. Different detachments were despatchedagainst the northern fortresses, and by degrees Soissons, Verdun,Thionville, Ham, where Napoleon had once been a prisoner, Pfalz-burg and Montmedy, all fell into the hands of the Prussians, thusopening to them a free road for the supplies of provisions. Thegarrison troops were all carried off as prisoners to Germany; thetowns—most of them in a miserable condition—fell into theenemys hands; many houses were mere heaps of ruins and ashes,and the larger part of the inhabitants were suffering severely frompoverty, hung

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