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On Far Right: Le 70eme Régiment d'Infanterie est formé en 1674 sous le nom de Navailles ou régiment de Médoc en 1691 . Sur son étendard était inscrit : Montenotte 1796 - Marengo 1800 - Oporto 1809 - Magenta 1859.
In October 1870, while the Franco-Prussian War still dragged on, despite the surrender of the Emperor Napoleon III and 83,000 of his men, a party of travellers on their way home to England witnessed a group of German soldiers fishing for Eagles, the famous French regimental standards, that they believed had been thrown into the River Meuse. A reward of four pounds was offered for each one recovered.
At the end of German Field-Marshal Count Helmuth Von Moltke's 1892 book about "The Franco-German War" he says that the Germans lost 6247 officers, 123,453 men, 6 guns, and 1 German flag, and by contrast took 723,556 French officers and men as prisoners, 7441 guns, and
captured 107 French 2nd Empire Napoleon the 3rd Eagles!
"The Dream" .......... and the Reality of War
Emperor Louis Napoleon III
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, born on 20 April, 1808, in Paris - third and last son of King Louis and Queen Hortense (1783-1837) of Holland, nephew of Napoleon I. Died like his uncle in exile on 9 January, 1873 at Chislehurst in England.
