The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-10-14
The Most Wonderful Military Ram
: 10 i.,.p paiEn Of MODERN TIules,.! i.

- '%t-OS1 W OAlOGzELuA Hilary
ip IT,. paiEn Of MODERN Times.i 4. d
| Since. theinyenti0n' of t9uhpowdefthdre
| has been olwar. between. any two or IA Orc
nations which VIII compare with that be.
| tween France and Germany. whether I've
consider the strength and tettuipments d
/ the armies of both sides,i the bloody bht-
| ties fought; and within the brief limits Of
a single month, or the obstacles ot,ercoEnes
ana the results achieved by the armies of
the successful -belhgereHt. ....I-,g .i..i,4.., -
The warwas declared by. France, ] DIV
IA and 'hostilities! were commenced Eby
T rance, "Hoals ind 2 at the little '!fYoht-
leH German town of Saarbrugk! where The
Prince Imperial received his. @"batjtisnI of
| fire. ON the 2d day ,of Auedst. and Ion
| the. I'd day of September the war! results
| IN the 'eapitalation of he" aFnlv.ueR Mac
Maheh and the surrender of Napoleo1 fl
King William. .lA Within the, week from
the opening of the ball in i the dramatic
little laffalF of Saarbruclp the strong. bosi-
tons Of the advance right wing Of The
French army under MaoMahon r.! from The
.Saar to the Rhine; and. Themes up to Stras-
burg ln'whlch' a. seTIes of fierce. and blbbdy
battles were-carried on, the, whole .Frehch
line was doubled' up and pushed, backward
over the Vosges. Mountains to the lind of
the Moselle and its protecting fortresses.
In these. operations. the losses, to the
French involved 1.-the reduction of the
splendid arn4y column lof! fifty. Thousand
men, withawhioh Mac cMahon 4narclSd out
of SttaBbuFg, August 4th, to less than
fifteenethoUshnd in his halt to repair. dhm-
ages at Chalons, ten days later. s.3
When Napoleon rode back with the
Prince Imperlal tU--his headquarters at
Metz, the French army extending In.
segment of q circle FROM that point Srohnd
to Strasburg;; Numbered, perhaps, not hess
than two hundred and fifty thousand men.
The German armies confronting them.
roughly computed since at half a, million
did not probably exceed in n'allthree hun
dred and fifty thousand men. But the
weight Of 1t was thrown with crushing
force upon 'MacMahon, and i'm his. denoli-s
ton at 'Woerth the whole Campaign WAS
virtually decided. The next chapter. I'M the
sangulnary drama was in the succession
otsdesperate- -battles with the originalileft.
and center OF tire French army7 on the
hne of the. .Moselle' under Bazalne. cul-
minatirg IN the terrific Struggle of the
18th at a Gravelotte, which: resulted in
shutting up Bazaine' within the walls of
Metz, TO the extent. of from eightyIt to "a.
hundred thousdnd' men, in charge of the
Prussian General Steinmetz. y rs, =.
Thus, by the 18th 70f"August' the orig
inal French army.of the Rhine. was dis
posed of; Including a detachment be-
4eaguered' IN StGasburg" and excluding the
escaping remnant Of MacMahon's. corps
and the detachment escaping. from Metz
and. uniting, with Maemahon in the north.
To this point the French losses in. killed,
wounded andiprisoners, and IN their forces
held in several zfortresses, as under lock
and key we're equal to two hundred tAou-
sand men. The 'capitulatien of the new
army of MacMahon under Gen. WEimpfen
at the time involved an additional inme-
/ aiate loss of from forty to- fifty thousand
men, more or less. We have no. means of
estimating the aggregate Iossesl in killed
and wounded on either side but from the
reports made, we apprehend that, while
the French losses of the war will not ex-
ceed one hundred thousand men, tie
German-losses; from the exposures on}that
s4de.as-the attacking party, have hardly
been less than one hundredI and fifty
thousand men. 3, [3.j.,.-, 81; ,5..
All this was done int brief space of
a month, from the I'd day of August to
the ID day Of September; and the grand
results are the surrender. of Napoleon and
the sublQgation of France, and at point
in the contest when the French people
were only beginning to prepare for the
expulsion of the enemy .. ~ <,-