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Battle of Wissembourg

The Battle of Wissembourg or Battle of Weissenburg, the first of the Franco-Prussian War, was joined when three German army corps surprised the small French garrison at Wissembourg on 4 August 1870.

Battle of Wissembourg
Battle of Wissembourg · Édouard Detaille, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
4 Aug 1870
Where
Wissembourg
Era
Modern

Topics

France359 BCE – today

Before and after

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