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BOHN’S STANDARD LIBRARY
THE CAMPAIGN OF SEDAN
“The policy of your Government will bring you to Jena,” saidM. de Moustier to Herr von Bismarck during the Crimean War.“Why not to Waterloo?” was the prompt and prophetic reply.
Wo Kraft und Muth in deutscher Seele flammen.
THE
CAMPAIGN OF SEDAN
THE
DOWNFALL OF THE SECOND EMPIRE
AUGUST–SEPTEMBER 1870
BY
AUTHOR OF “WATERLOO: THE DOWNFALL OF THE FIRST NAPOLEON: A
HISTORY OF THE CAMPAIGN OF 1815,” ETC.
WITH MAP AND PLANS
LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
1909
CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.
PREFACE.
When it was decided to publish a new and cheaperedition of Mr. George Hooper’s “Sedan,” thequestion arose whether anything should be added to it.My father had intended, should a new edition be calledfor, to revise and correct the work, and to furnish it withan index. After due consideration it has been decided tomake no additions to the book, except the index, whichhas been carefully compiled. A few errors that had creptinto the text of the original edition have been corrected;but in other respects the volume remains as it was leftby its author.
WYNNARD HOOPER.
SOUTH KENSINGTON,
October, 1897.
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
The War of 1870–71 was opened by a campaign ofthirty days, complete in itself, and the author mustplead the dramatic unity of the great event as a reason fortreating it in a separate form. Although the foundationof those ulterior successes which enabled the Germans toproclaim the King of Prussia Emperor in Germany, and todo so in the palace of Louis XIV., yet, from an historica