2-755-845 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Map of the Battle of Sedan, 1 September 1870, (c1872). Map: 'Drawn under the Superintendance of Captain Hozier', showing the enemy positions. The Battle of Sedan was a national humiliation for the French, as their army was decisively defeated by the Prussians commanded by Moltke, and the Emperor Napoleon III captured. The defeat led to the fall of the French Second Empire and the occupation of Paris by the Germans and, in 1871, the creation of the German Empire. From "The Franco-Prussian War: its causes, incidents and consequences", Volume I, by Captain H M Hozier. [William Mackenzie, London, 1872]