Battle of Loigny–Poupry | |||||||
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Part of the Franco–Prussian War | |||||||
![]() Hugo von Kottwitz with the Lübecker Bataillon | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
![]() | General Gaston de Sonis | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
ca. 35,000 | ca. 90,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
4180 |
ca. 8000 killed ca. 3000 Captured |
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The Battle of Loigny–Poupry was a battle of the Franco–Prussian War. It took place on 2 December 1870 during the Loire Campaign near the town of Loigny. An army detachment (Armee-Abteilung) under the command of Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, engaged the French Army of the Loire and defeated them. The French force was led by General Gaston de Sonis, an experienced cavalry commander. His core troops (about 300) comprised a mixture of Saraphis and Zouaves. Their support troops (the 51st Foot, a largely untrained motley group of conscripts) fell back, leaving de Sonis to make a stand, which he and his Zouaves and Saraphis did.
Sources[]
- THE ORLEANS CAMPAIGN OF 1870 from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- History of the Franco–Prussian War
- A Soldier's Message by DCN, Comet Press, 1958
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