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they had won the day and began to congratulate themselves and focus on reestablishing their positions rather than on continuing the battle at hand. When the
Prussians renewed their attack, opening fire on the French from an unexpected direction, they took the French completely by surprise and broke the French line again. Du Bessol launched yet another counterattack, which this time failed, and Du Bessol was wounded. The French troops began to flee, falling back several miles by nightfall. Thirteen batteries of Prussian artillery silenced the French artillery near Villers-Bretonneux. In a determined advance, the Prussians pushed straight into Villers-Bretonneux, which fell to them at 1600. Their arrival caused a panic among the civilian population; tragically, a number of women and children were killed in the crossfire when they ran in between Prussian and French troops, and other women and children drowned in the surrounding
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Villers-Bretonneux and Cachy. At first the French seemed to waver, but then French reinforcements — mostly artillery — arrived from Amiens and stiffened the defense, and at around 1300, the French prepared a counterattack against the
Prussian 3rd Brigade. The counterattack pushed the Prussian 4th Infantry Regiment out of the Hangard Wood and back against the heights of DĂ©muin. Running out of ammunition, the Prussians also had to pull out of Gentelles and fall back to Domart-sur-la-Luce. The commander of the Prussian 30th Brigade, General Otto von Strubberg, intervened by driving four battalions of his 28th and 68th Infantry Regiments to the Luce, bringing the temporary Prussian crisis at Gentelles to an end.
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remain in command of it at least until the arrival of his successor, rather than turn over provisional command of the army to the relatively junior Farre. The
Prussians supposed that, in his journey from Lille to Amiens and from Amiens to Rouen, Bourbaki had no other goal than to bring the left and right wings of his supposedly unified army together to concentrate around Amiens at the center of the line the Prussians thought he was maintaining in northern France. Leaving behind the 4th Brigade (under
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ordered his forces to advance into Amiens from the south via the road through Hébécourt and Dury. The
Prussians passed numbers of dead French soldiers and horses as they advanced along the road through the abandoned French defenses and captured the artillery pieces the French had left behind. After Goeben and his troops arrived in Amiens, three battalions of the Prussian 40th Regiment and two batteries of artillery paraded past him in review.
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and Lille. Expecting a
Prussian pursuit, entire French regiments remained concealed in the forests near Amiens in the days following the battle, hoping to avoid detection and destruction by advancing Prussian troops, but when they realized that the main body of Manteuffel's army had instead moved off
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Prussians advanced through the wood that stretched from Villers-Bretonneux to Boves. Emerging from it not long before noon, they opened fire with 18 artillery pieces on French forces massed on the plateau surrounding Villers-Bretonneux, and fighting began to intensify steadily in the area between
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at a range of only 1,200 yards (1,097 m) from the French defenses. Despite losing five officers and half their horses killed, the
Prussian artillerymen held their position rather than pull back to a safer range of 2,000 yards (1,829 m), and it was the Prussian artillery fire than ultimately
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on 25 November, and without waiting for the rest of the 1st Army to concentrate its forces fully along the line of the Oise, Manteuffel decided to attack what he thought was
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broke into the far left of the French line and captured the French entrenchments there. The French mounted a counterattack organized by
Colonel du Bessol which retook the entrenchments and pushed the Prussians back some 3 kilometres (1.9 mi). The Prussians having withdrawn, the French assumed
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road completely unprotected, although the French did not take advantage of the opportunity. After driving the French out of Hébécourt, the Prussians encountered French earthworks about 0.75 miles (1.2 km) south of Dury, including four pieces of heavy artillery placed on the road itself. About
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relieved Farre of his provisional command of the Army of the North on 3 December 1870 and arrived at Arras in early December to reorganize the army. Reinforced by the troops who belatedly made their way north after the Battle of Amiens as well as with fresh troops, Faidharbe's army soon grew to a
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At 16:30, with the Army of the North almost out of ammunition and losing ground along its entire line, Farre ordered a general retreat. He ordered his artillery batteries to fall back to Corbie in order to protect the army's line of retreat to the north, instructing the rest of his troops to fall
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and charged with the defense of the city. In additional to its numerical advantage, the Prussian 1st Army also had better equipment and better-trained and more experienced troops than the Army of the North. Nonetheless, to prevent the Prussians from occupying Amiens without a fight, Farre did not
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near Amiens and reported that Bourbaki was present at Amiens. Bourbaki had, in fact, spent the previous day there before heading for Rouen. The Prussians had learned from the newspapers that Bourbaki had been relieved of his command of the Army of the North, but apparently believed that he would
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and its fortress on 9 December and held them briefly, then began to move toward Amiens. In mid-December 1870 Manteuffel ordered Goeben's VIII Corps back to the Amiens area to guard against an attack there by Faidharbe. Eventually, Faidharbe's advance on Amiens in an attempt to retake the city
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between Boves and Saint-Nicolas and launched an assault from it against French artillery positions and Boves itself, supported by a battery of Prussian artillery firing at a range of 2,000 yards (1,829 m) from a position about 0.25 miles (0.4 km) in front of the farm at
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with his subordinates which came to the conclusion that a further defense of Amiens was impractical given the army's weakness and its loss of Villers-Bretonneux, Boves, and Dury. Farre ordered the Army of the North to abandon Amiens and continue the retreat, withdrawing toward
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strength of 43,000 men and later reached 50,000. Reorganized into two corps, and ordered to interfere with Manteuffel's advance on Le Havre and to retake Amiens, Faidharbe's army posed a renewed threat to Manteuffel's northern flank. Elements of Faidharbe's army retook
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existed just outside Amiens, but Farre deemed them too weak and too close to the city. He chose to make his stand east, southeast, and south of Amiens along a line about 25 kilometres (16 mi) in length. It ran south from the left bank of the
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led a French counterattack along the Avre and at Saint-Fuscien in attempt to restore the flank, but was pushed back on Boves, where he resisted Prussian assaults for a time. Later in the day, the Prussian 33rd Regiment moved into a
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provided any, and most of the graves were marked with iron crosses rather than headstones — but held out under heavy French fire for over two hours. Meanwhile, Prussian artillery supporting the attack moved up toward Dury and
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battle, while Bruce places its strength at 25,000 men. Other sources estimate the strength of the army as somewhere between Howard′s and Bruce′s estimates, often claiming a strength of 22,000 to 23,000.
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On the Prussian left wing, the VIII Corps under Goeben advanced to attack the French center and right. In the center around Boves, the main body of the Prussian 15th Division under General
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of cavalry, and three batteries of artillery from the VIII Corps behind at Amiens, he moved southwest toward Rouen, which the Prussians captured without opposition on 5 December 1870.
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forced the French to abandon their earthworks and fall back on Dury. Prussian infantry including the 33rd Regiment pursued the retreating French troops and occupied Dury and
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while trying to flee the town. The fall of Villers-Bretonneux and disintegration of the French left allowed the Prussians to outflank the French center and right,
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and artillery emplacements. On the evening of 26 November 1870, Farre completed the concentration of his troops along the line. On the French left wing, Colonel
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on 31 October 1870, Farre became its provisional commander — pending the arrival of a more senior officer to take command — when Bourbaki transferred to the
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and completed the defeat of the Second Empire's army. The Government of National Defense vowed to raise a new army for the Third Republic and fight on.
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also fell after the battle, the French success in retreating preserved their forces in northern France, denying the Prussians a decisive victory.
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volunteers. The Hussars cut the French defenders to pieces but themselves suffered heavy losses, including the death of Prince
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1103:Manteuffel established his headquarters at
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1349:. Unnoticed by the French, Prussian
1203:On the French right, the French 2nd
2215:Military history of Hauts-de-France
2014:. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
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2210:Battles of the Franco-Prussian War
2112:. London, Cassell & Co., 1899.
2100:La guerre dans le Nord (1870-1871)
782:on 27 October 1870 after a 70-day
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2012:Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles
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157:Antoine Paulze d`Ivoy de la Poype
2068:. New York: Dorset Press, 1961.
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1022:(south of Amiens) and then to
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2030:Histoire de la ville d'Amiens
1952:Histoire de la ville d'Amiens
858:Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel
679:Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel
463:Chat Chateauneuf-en-Thimerais
144:Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel
2084:, London: W. McKenzie, 1870.
1686:Three batteries of artillery
1683:(Lieutenant Colonel Duhamel)
1643:(Lieutenant Colonel Galtier)
1200:, where the French stopped.
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909:Manteuffel's army halted at
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700:Battle of Villers-Bretonneux
1997:Part 5, p. 377 (in French).
1632:(Lieutenant Colonel Pittié)
1590:of Bontin and Major Cottin)
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1734:References
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1367:marshes
1339:Hangard
1260:Moreuil
1213:Rumigny
1186:charged
1105:Thennes
952:cavalry
948:I Corps
939:La Fère
794:Colonel
740:Germany
605:Lisaine
599:Le Mans
583:Bapaume
578:PĂ©ronne
558:Epuisay
553:Longeau
543:VendĂ´me
518:Orléans
443:La Fère
438:Belfort
383:Artenay
314:Buzancy
117:Prussia
2195:Amiens
2072:
2054:
2018:
1695:sniper
1677:Mobile
1637:Mobile
1596:Mobile
1414:rifles
1390:city.
1335:DĂ©muin
1289:Cambos
1284:ravine
1190:marine
1182:Hussar
1004:Corbie
911:Rheims
897:, and
895:Amiens
748:France
720:France
716:Amiens
704:French
684:
682:RIGHT:
677:
610:Longwy
588:Rocroi
573:Hallue
548:Pesmes
498:Varize
488:Amiens
453:Havana
393:Verdun
363:Sceaux
319:Nouart
275:Marsal
260:Bitche
171:25,000
168:43,000
129:
114:
100:
76:Result
69:France
65:Amiens
1703:Notes
1675:47th
1635:46th
1593:45th
1450:Rouen
1430:Arras
1380:Arras
1238:hedge
1154:Celle
1098:Arras
1060:Paris
1044:Cachy
1016:Boves
1000:Somme
976:Somme
899:Lille
875:Somme
842:Rouen
805:Lille
784:siege
675:LEFT:
568:Tours
528:Buchy
473:Ladon
458:Dreux
433:Dijon
418:Ognon
357:Paris
340:Sedan
255:Wörth
2070:ISBN
2052:ISBN
2016:ISBN
1726:men.
1621:1st
1554:2nd
1519:Two
1510:Two
1382:and
1225:Roye
1158:Noye
1113:Avre
1109:Luce
1068:Dury
1042:and
1006:and
950:, a
881:and
871:Oise
780:Metz
706:and
694:The
423:Gray
308:Metz
290:Toul
52:Date
1473:Ham
1164:to
1002:at
840:at
803:of
2186::
2153:,
2108:.
2038:,
2028:,
1993:,
1959:^
1930:^
1885:^
1862:^
1818:^
1789:^
1756:^
1658:)
1618:)
1551:)
1337:,
1274:.
848:.
722:.
718:,
67:,
2076:.
2060:.
2022:.
1318:–
1223:–
1215:–
1172:–
688:.
217:e
210:t
203:v
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