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    "ocrText": "3. BATTLE FI EL DS CE MBTZ.\nThe Batt 0 Fields of 16th and 18th August, 1870, lie to the To of Metz,\non the road to Verdun. & visit to them cocupies a whole day. The Battle of\nRezonville, fought on the 16th AUG. was one of the bloodiest of the whole war.\nIn the course of the day no fewer than 138,000 Fronch troops and 476 guns were\nengaged at intervals, while the Gemman foIces amounted to 67,000 men With 222\nguns. The Fronch loss was estimated at 379 officers and 16 .128 men, and the\nCorners loss at 711 Officcrs and 15,069 rank and file. The eight Geman Corps\nd'Arme C ongaged in the Battle OI Crevelotte, fought a the 18th Aug., numbercd\nabout 230,000 men, opposed to whom vere 180,000 French. The Comans lost 899\nofficers and 19,260 men, the French 609 ficers and 11,705 men.\nIo the I.. of Lietz lic the Battle Ficlès of 14th Auge air of 31st AUG . and\nlst Scjo. 1870. The formor battle is known to the Frerch as the battle of\nBorny, while the Gemans have it the battle of as the\nground between these villages was the pinc ipal object of attack. Its resuli\nwa.s. to cause fatal dolay in the intended march of the Fronch to Verdon. The\nbattle of 31 st Aug. mdlst Sopt was faight on the oc casion of the first and yn\nand most detemincd attem* of Maishal Bezaine to break thraugh the Cemion amy\nWhich had surrounded Mctz since 19th Argust. The chief object of di soute vas\nthe small village of Noisseville, 5 M. from Lictz, on the road to Saarlouis.\nTO the N. of Metz, not far from BIC road to Thionville, lies Woippy, vhore\nBazeine is last sortic, on 7th Oct., teminated in the retreat of the Fronch,\nbattle of ninc hours' duration. - At the chateau of Prescati, 23 M.\nto the S. of Metz, on 27th oct. wes signed trc capitulation 0= Mctz, Whercby\nthe fortress, with 3 marshels, 50 geneiels, 6000 oth er officers, 173,000 men\n(including 20,000 sick and. wounded), 55 cagles, 66 mitraillenses, 541 field-\npicces, and 800 fortress-guns, to gother with a vast quantity of othor munitions\nof wer, vissurrendered to the\nP. S. TATI CISE,\nMajor, Infantry,\ni. G. of S. Ca22"
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