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