Franco-Prussian War - Quiz
A) 6 August B) 15 August C) 5 August D) 4 August
A) Von Steinmetz B) Bazaine C) MacMahon D) Frossard
A) General Le Bœuf rejected the logistics plan B) Intendant General Wolff stated it was not feasible C) The trains had been destroyed D) The French lacked horses
A) Decoy fires B) A note left behind C) A sudden drop in gunfire D) Abandoned cannons
A) At the Moselle river B) Near the city of Wissembourg C) Between Spicheren and Forbach D) On the banks of the Rhine
A) He was confident in his position B) His telegraph lines were cut C) He treated the attacks as minor skirmishes D) He was injured during the first assault
A) Dreyse needle gun B) Krupp artillery C) Chassepot rifle D) Gatling gun
A) A direct order from Napoleon III B) Heavy rain and mud C) The destruction of a key bridge D) Seriously flawed communications
A) He feared he was being outflanked B) He was captured by German troops C) He received orders to surrender D) He ran out of ammunition
A) They were ordered to retreat back to Saarbrücken B) They were startled to find Frossard had abandoned the heights C) They were disappointed that the French had reinforced D) They began a major victory parade
A) Le Bœuf B) Bazaine C) Frossard D) MacMahon
A) Drawing them out into an open field battle B) Forcing a surrender through blockade C) Immediate total destruction by artillery D) Keep them on the Saar until surrounding armies arrived
A) Von Steinmetz B) Von Glume C) Moltke D) Friedrich Karl
A) The German 2nd Army B) The German 1st Army C) A French army D) The Prussian reserve
A) A highly concentrated line of deep reserves B) A unified front across the entire border C) Protected against every attack point but unable to support each other D) A mobile defense meant for rapid retreat
A) The Seven Weeks' War B) The Crimean Conflict C) The Napoleonic Wars D) War of 1870
A) 19 July 1870 B) 10 May 1871 C) 4 September 1870 D) 28 January 1871
A) Leopold of Hohenzollern B) Napoleon III C) Emile Ollivier D) Wilhelm I
A) Bavaria B) Baden C) Saxony D) Württemberg
A) Paris Communiqué B) Berlin Telegram C) Frankfurt Dispatch D) Ems Dispatch
A) Treaty of Berlin B) Treaty of Frankfurt C) Treaty of Paris D) Treaty of Versailles
A) The Reign of Terror B) The Napoleonic Coup C) The Second Empire D) Paris Commune
A) Realpolitik B) Politique des pourboires C) The tipping policy D) The French ambition
A) Jacques Louis Randon B) Agenor, duc de Gramont C) Adolphe Thiers D) Emile Ollivier
A) 19 July 1870 B) 2 August 1870 C) 15 July 1870 D) 13 July 1870
A) The imperial guards B) The diplomatic corps C) The war party D) The republican opposition
A) 426,000 soldiers B) 800,000 soldiers C) 400,000 soldiers D) 288,000 soldiers
A) By ballot B) By lottery C) By volunteer application D) By physical fitness testing
A) Seven years B) Five years C) Ten years D) Three years
A) 288,000 men B) 800,000 men C) 1,000,000 men D) 426,000 men
A) Adolphe Niel B) Patrice de MacMahon C) François Achille Bazaine D) Napoleon III
A) 800,000 men B) 400,000 men C) 288,000 men D) 1,000,000 men
A) 426,000 men B) 288,000 men C) 400,000 men D) 800,000 men
A) 2,000 metres B) 1,000 metres C) 500 metres D) 1,500 metres
A) A screw-in bolt B) A rubber ring seal C) A metal spring lock D) A hydraulic pressure valve
A) Breech-loading steel howitzers B) Modern field mortars C) Rifled, muzzle-loaded La Hitte guns D) Smoothbore iron cannons
A) Mounted on horseback B) Distributed to infantry squads C) Fixed in permanent concrete bunkers D) Grouped in batteries like cannons
A) Napoleon III B) François Achille Bazaine C) Patrice de MacMahon D) Adolphe Niel
A) Offensive B) Naval blockading C) Defensive D) Guerrilla warfare
A) Prussia B) Austria C) Bavaria D) Saxony
A) Königgrätz B) Cannae C) Austerlitz D) Waterloo
A) Chassepot rifle B) Dreyse needle gun C) Mauser bolt-action D) Krupp rifle
A) 300 meters B) 1,200 meters C) 600 meters D) 1,000 meters
A) British naval artillery B) Austrian iron smoothbore cannon C) French bronze muzzle loading cannon D) Krupp 6-pounder steel breech-loading cannon
A) Berlin Military College B) Potsdam Officer School C) Prussian Kriegsakademie D) Royal Cadet Academy
A) Contact-detonated shell B) Solid shot C) Time-fused shell D) Incendiary projectile
A) 250,500 B) 150,000 C) 300,000 D) 202,448
A) General Frossard B) Marshal MacMahon C) Marshal Canrobert D) Marshal Niel
A) Paris B) Metz C) Châlons-sur-Marne D) Wissembourg
A) General Lebrun B) Marshal François Canrobert C) Napoleon III D) Marshal MacMahon
A) Prussian Rhineland B) Châlons-sur-Marne C) Belgium D) Bavarian Palatinate
A) 16 B) 86 C) 83 D) 40
A) General Karl von Steinmetz B) Prince Friedrich Karl C) General Frossard D) Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm
A) Saarbrücken B) Saarlouis C) Wissembourg D) Forbach
A) 20 miles B) 30 miles C) 48 miles D) 50 miles
A) Abel Douay B) Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot C) General Le Bœuf D) General Frossard
A) 2nd Division B) 4th Division C) 3rd Division D) 1st Division
A) He was captured and executed B) He was shot by a Prussian sniper C) During the hand-to-hand fighting in the town D) A caisson exploded near him
A) Wissembourg B) Saverne C) Bitche D) Frœschwiller
A) 35,000 B) 9,200 C) 10,500 D) 140,000
A) About 50% B) About 25% C) About 75% D) About 10%
A) A valley B) A mountain pass C) A hilltop D) A riverbank
A) Southerly B) Easterly C) Northerly D) Westerly
A) The Jura mountains B) The Alps C) The Pyrenees D) The Vosges mountains
A) 13,761 B) 15,780 C) 12,275 D) 20,163
A) 112,800 B) 160,000 C) 188,332 D) 30,000
A) Roncourt B) Rozérieulles C) St. Privat D) Rezonville
A) Rozérieulles B) Vionville C) St. Privat D) Mance ravine
A) II Corps B) XII Corps C) III Corps D) VII Corps
A) Flamethrowers B) Mitrailleuses C) Mortars D) Grenades
A) 15,780 B) 13,761 C) 20,163 D) 12,275
A) Two months B) Two weeks C) One month D) Three days
A) Reading poetry B) Writing memoirs C) Painting portraits D) Playing dominoes
A) Bismarck B) The Crown Prince of Saxony C) Frederick William D) Moltke
A) Southeast B) Northwest C) Southwest D) Northeast
A) Beaumont B) Châlons C) Floing D) Metz
A) The battle at Beaumont B) The retreat from Gravelotte C) The defeat at Sedan D) The surrender at Metz
A) 100 B) 564 C) 774 D) 40
A) Bonapartist B) Socialist C) Royalist D) Republican
A) 19 September B) 6 September C) 26 October D) 4 September
A) Léon Gambetta B) Jules Favre C) M. Edmond Regnier D) General Trochu
A) Léon Gambetta B) General Trochu C) Jules Favre D) Napoleon III
A) Marshal Bazaine B) Léon Gambetta C) General Trochu D) Giuseppe Garibaldi
A) Twenty-six B) Three C) Eight D) Eleven
A) 888 B) 11 C) 173 D) 238 |
Created with That Quiz —
where test making and test taking are made easy for math and other subject areas.