The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-09-06
, THE BATTLE OF SEDAN.
THE WATERLOO OF NAPOLEON III.
The Fiercest Confict;of Modern Times.
FULL AND INTERESTING DETAILS.

the Now York Tribune gives the follow
ing interesting particulars Of the great
battle that resulted in the srrrsndcr Of
jMcMskSn'e army and Emperor Napoleon;
i-snfYD6czRrFfs Or r6x KfSo o. PAYS.
sQ,6fPIT MILES FROM SEDAN, ShsT I'd,
lq5o3fhe number Of Prussian tv0sps en-
| gSFuQsWxG estimated by Gen. Noltke at
2U,W0> and that of the FrenchN 10000.
WeNMew that Mcmahon had ~ ,him
on yeSday l2O, 900 men, that Is four Corps
No&m3 that lately commandcdg ~ Sen.
dc fN{ify, under Gen Bruno; thatbf Fol
iyDc0,tgA brother, of Gen. Add pouay,
killeas &c We.scnburgs and . folrih
corps principally coniposed of gsrds mo
ils,thad1mc of whose commander has
csenUrQ me.
AftalShon, although wounded, was the
commandment chief on The French side
II Is almost needless to say that the yoal
coIvS01tiaer- in-chief wa the Prnssisn
| Won MbYtkc. with the crown princc and
Prifice albert of Saxcny immediutels in
command There were afew straycWUion
shot. ated merely Sighting shots however
rs soon as the range vas obtained. but
the rsal euttle did not commence until 6
o'clock in. thc mornswy. There was
sharp asAIlery fight At 9, when thu batter
rics had inch got within easy range and
the shells began to do serious mischief
Al, IL .b5 the muskctsy fire in the valley
in the rear of Sedan, which had opened
sbous ll;2j O'Clock, became exceedingly
lively, being one continuous rattle, only
broken By the g1owling of the mitrailleu-
ses which played with deadly effect on Che
advancing Saxon and Bavarian ooluaans.
Gen. Sheridan, by whose side I was
standing, nd me th1 he did not remem-
Der evsf n lave witnessed such we'll ais.
tanned .maNarms fire. lit made itself
heard above the roar'ef The batteries at
our fcet. II IS
At,la O'clock precisely . Prussiaf bat
terry Of ix-Enns ON the slope above Che
broken rSglGay bridge over the Nsusc
near Ia N11ette had sIlensed two batteries
of French guns ut the ZOOS of the bare hills
already mentioned near tie village Of Fler-
W la minute. pass 10 10 clock The IT,
family, w longer supRortcd by their ar
tilery, wAyN compelled to, retire 70 ,Fcr-
ing, md 1o61 afterwards the junctice Ne
Sedan was announced ~ v by Gen Won
Room, IN was eagerly peering thr~sek
largetelsecope, as being safely con,S9Stsl
nanS 'Xrnnoer he anuh,SJ tn. 1sSS.h
were eonrpletely surrounded and breoght
w .s1anxu,. .,. n, .s,o,,.,.,
,,rnSssc ..s,..,in. F,on"S 49,,
w. SsssaS.sso"n f,or;n', .,d S"%s ",
Psussia,s battery making good practice with
ri 49, MN n. ~ vi. AIMS h'.
,as ,;,ors III, ny ,ca TX ~, Il , am n .n
va, san;d;;,' 80 ,han NE &c. tan
co., a'ii3.o C.n yan Row al. H. 1o ~.
",,sn,;on 10 nno,Scr Frs"cb coln,nn ~ gu,
rctr"a, 10 The ri"b, If sedan nn ill., " r 'u,
lsadins from Baxcillss 20 7, Gay.n"a
wood. They never halted mi ,bcy 90, 20
| .n,l oJ-ronc.a hone ,, ia. a.,SSii..
Of sedan jlsclG 70 Z -.
AlmoA a, thcsan,o moment Gen. Sher-
idan, who was using my opera glass, asked
me to look a, third French column NOV
ing up the broad grass road through LIN
CAYENNE wood in,m edin,ely above Sedan.
doubtless TO support the troops defending
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