Identifier: onehundredyearso00morr (find matches)
Title: One hundred years of conflict between the nations of Europe, the causes and issues of the great war;
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Printed by G. F. Lasher & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR 269 victory and triumph. By the end of July King William had alsoset out from Berlin to join the armies that were then in rapid motiontowards the frontier. The emperor made his way to Metz, where was stationed hismain army, about 200,000 strong, under Marshals Bazaine andCanrobert and General Bourbaki. Further east, under MarshalMacMahon, the hero of Magenta, was the southern army, of about100,000 men. A third army occupied the camp at Chalons, whilea well-manned fleet set sail for the Baltic, to blockade the harborsand assail the coast of Germany. The German army was likewisein three divisions, the first, of 61,000 men, under General Steinmetz;the second, of 206,000 men, under Prince Frederick Charles; andthe third, of 180,000 men, under the crown prince and GeneralBlumenthal. The king, commander-in-chief of the whole, wasin the center, and with him the general staff under the guidance ofthe alert Von Moltke. Bismarck and the minister of war VonRoon were also

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