The Battle of Bretoncelles[5][6] was an event in the Franco-Prussian War.[4] It occurred on 21 November 1870,[7] in Bretoncelles, Orne, France.[2] This engagement ended with the defeat of the French army,[3] when the Prussian army under the command of Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin forced the French to retreat. The Battle of Bretoncelles was one of the most important battles in the advance of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg in late 1870.[4]
- ^ Kurt Schmidt, Gotha, das Buch einer deutschen Stadt, Volume 2, Page 219
- ^ a b Georges d' Heylli, Journal du siége de Paris: Décrets, proclamations, circulaires, rapports, notes, renseignements, documents divers officiels et autres publiés, Volume 3, Page 622
- ^ a b Reginald Welbury Jeffery, The new Europe, 1789-1889, Page 346
- ^ a b c d e Edmund Ollier, Cassell's history of the war between France and Germany, 1870-1871, Pages 520-521.
- ^ Edmund Ollier, Cassell's history of the war between France and Germany, 1870-1871, Appendix.
- ^ Émile Louis Gustave Deshayes de Marcère, Le seize mai et la fin du septennat, Page 301
- ^ Revue de l'Anjou, Page 470
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Friedrich Franz II[4]
