The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-12-13
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The War in France.


grams and show the magnitude of che despe-
rate effort made by General Trocbu to raise
the siege of Paris and effect q junction with
the Army of the Loire.
The movement began on November rs,
when the forts around Paris opened furious
cannonade against the German positions.
At midnight on attempt was made to throw
bridges across the Seine, northwest OF Paris,
and early in the morning OF Tuesday, the
29th, the Garde Mobiles made q vigorous
feint upon the German Fifth Corps. About
an hour later the real sortie was made, the
besieged coming out from Villejuif in front
OF the southern forts Bicetre and Ivry, and
advancing against the Prussan Sixth Corps
and the Second Bavarian Corps, stationed
around L'Hay, Chevilly and Choisy-le-Roi.
After two hours fierce fighting, in which the
Germany batteries did good service, Gene
raj vinoy who commanded the French,
withdrew his forces. General Ducrot was to
have made concerted movement further
east. across the Marne, but was prevented
from so doing by sudden rise in the river.
In the various actions OF the 29th, the entire
German loss was few hundred men, while
the French, according to Versailles tele-
.Gran, lost sixteen hundred in prisoners
alone.
On the next day, Wednesday, the 3Oth, sor-
ties were made under Vinoy, Ducrot and per-
haps Trochu himself. against the Prussians
on the south, the Wurtemburgers on
the southeast and the Saxons on the
east. These were accompanied by serious
demonstrations on the north and west
against the Prussian Fourth Corps and the
Guard. The principal fighting took place
on the southeast and east, around the double
curve of the Marne, where Ducrot crossed,
at Mont Mesly, Bonneuil, Ormesson, Cham
pigny, villiers, Brie and Noisy LIE Grand.
Fighting with unusual vigor, the French
took number of positions, but ultimately
most OF them were retaken. The Wurtem-
burgers bore the brunt of the battle. About
sixteen hundred men we're lost by the Wur-
tembargers and the Prussian Second Corps,
and the French retained possession OF the
Marne peninsl q, east of the Bois de Vim
cennes, and OF various bridges thrown across
the river. On Thursday the opposing forces
remained in position, but at daylight on Fri
day, the Sd, the Duke of Saxony, with two
corps and q division OF Wurtemburgers,
made an assault upon the French positions
at Brie and Champigny. Ducrot withdrew
within the peninsula, covering his flanks
with the river, and the advancing Germans
suffered severely from the fire OF Forts No
gent and Rosny. When met by fresh troops
they momentarily gave way, but rallied, and
the contest ended with the retreat of the
French, who abandoned Brie and Cham
niguy, with the loss OF eighteen hundred
prisoners and seven guns The losses in
killed and wounded were heavy on both
sides. The Wurtemburgers acknowledge a
loss of eight hundred and forty-eight, and
from the I'd to the 4th these gallant troops
lost three thousand two hundred, while the
French lost two thousand killed. On the Sd
there was no fighting of any moment, and
at the lastaccounts the French were mass
ing at Creteiki in front of Fort Charenton,
between the Marne and the Seine.
simultaneously with these conflicts the
German and French armies, north of the
Loire, were engaged in a no less serious
and important conflict. On Monday, the
2sth, General D'Anrelles le Paladines made
an attack on Prince Frederick Charles's
army at Beaune-la- -Rolande, northeast OF
Orleans, Montargis and Pithiviers, with the
inteDtion, it is presumed, of cutting the Ger
man semi-circle and then pushing directly
on Paris by way Of Fontainebleau. This
movement met with a signal repulse, in
which the French lost five thousand killed
and wounded and sixteen hundred prisoners,
while the total German loss was only one
thousand. Contracting their forces the Ger
mans resumed the offensive, and on the 3Oth,
according to the French reports, they met
with defeat. On the next day, however,
Won der Tam defeated the Army OF the
Loire in several engagements, and on Fri
day, December 2, the right wing of.the Ger
mans smashed up two French army corps at
sBuzaches. les -Hautes, driving them towards
Orleans and capturing seven hundred pris-
onersS and eleven guns. The next day,
Prince Frederick Charles completed the de-
feat by forcing the French from their en-
strenched position at and around Chevilly,
.whereupon Palladiues advised the evacua-
stion OF Orleans, and a retreat to the south
bank Of the Loire. The government hest
tated, and Palladines, for the moment,
changed his opinion, but the capture by the
Germans OF q suburb OF Orleans, with thirty
guns and thousand prisoners, decided the
fate of the city. The fruits of the reoccupa-
tion OF Orleans by the Germans were 10000
prisoners, II cannon and gunboats. This
intelligence was communicated by General
Won Moltke to General Trochu, who at once
issued q proclamation to the people, in
which he gave them the unwelcome tidings,
and said that, even if the German state
ments were true, the government would
still have righ: to expect "a great move
s'ment of the mutton" to their assistance,
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