The Campaign on the Loire, 1870-1871: Orleans and Le Mans (From Musket to Maxim)
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The campaign on the Loire was in many ways the most dramatic, and most important, of the campaigns of the German army during the winter of 1870�. It was fought for the most part in dreadful weather conditions which subjected its participants to extremes of physical hardship. The culmination of the campaign was the battle of Le Mans, which tested the armies on both sides to an even greater extent than the months which had gone before.For the French, the indomitable Alfred Chanzy was by some way the ablest of their generals notwithstanding the series of defeats sustained by his 2nd Army of the Loire, he never gave up. Less fortunate was General Claude d’Auelle de Paladines, whose tenure in command of the Army