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Battle of Dijon (1870)
| Battles of Dijon | |||||||
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| Part of the Franco-Prussian War | |||||||
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Garibaldi_in_Dijon.jpg) Garibaldi in Dijon by Sebastiano De Albertis, 1877 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Army of the Vosges[1] |
 Baden[2] German Empire[3] | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Józef Hauke-Bosak † |
 August von Werder[9] Major General Von Kettlerr[10][11] Prince Wilhelm (WIA)[12] Gustav von Beyer[12] | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| Army of the Vosges[13] | 61st Pomeranian Regiment | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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4,500 (October) 10,000 (end of November) 18,000 (mid-December) 19,500 (January) | Approx. 40.000 men | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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First battle: 100 killed 200 captured[2] |
First battle: 150 Killed and wounded[2] Third battle: 700 killed and wounded 1 flag captured[6] | ||||||
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Bourgogne-Franche-Comt%C3%A9_region_relief_location_map.jpg)  Location within Bourgogne-Franche-Comté &sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:France_relief_location_map.jpg) Battle of Dijon (1870) (France) | |||||||
The Battles of Dijon were a series of battles that took place in 1870 and 1871, as part of the Franco-Prussian War, on the current territory of the French commune of Dijon between the French Republic and the German states of Prussia and Baden and later, the German Empire.
- ^ Adam Zamoyski, Holy madness: romantics, patriots, and revolutionaries, 1776-1871, Page 433
- ^ a b c "The Franco-German War of 1870—71" (Helmuth von Moltke)
- ^ William J. Duiker, Jackson J. Spielvogel, The Essential World History, Volume 2: Since 1500, p. 481: "On January 18, 1871, in the Chamber of Mirrors in the […] Palace of Versailles of Louis XIV, William was crowned Emperor (Kaiser) Second German Empire (First was the Holy Roman Empire Middle Ages)".
- ^ Tony Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A-E, Page 302
- ^ George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple bar, Volume 110, Page 420
- ^ a b Michael Howard, The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France, 1870-1871, Page 427
- ^ John Parris, The Lion of Caprera: a biography of Giuseppe Garibaldi, Page 315
- ^ Jean François Bazin, Histoire de Dijon, Pages 54-55.
- ^ Germany 1815-90; Vol II 1852-71, Page 520
- ^ Frederick III, German Emperor, The war diary of the Emperor Frederick III, 1870-1871, trang 284
- ^ Wilhelm M Ller, Wilhelm Müller, Die Jahre 1871 Und 1872, Page 39
- ^ a b "Men who have made the new German empire. A series of brief biographic sketches"
- ^ Adam Zamoyski, Holy madness: romantics, patriots, and revolutionaries, 1776-1871, Page 433
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