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Real Time History
Season 2021 · Episode 10
Bloody Victories - The Battles For Metz | GLORY & DEFEAT Week 6
0.013mAugust 19, 2021
The French Army of Marshal Bazaine was hoping to reach Verdun or even Paris after the first engagements around Metz. But the French troops were exhausted which allowed the Germans to catch up. With the Battle of Gravelotte and the Battle of Mars-la-Tour, the fate of the French Rhine Army is sealed; they are trapped in Metz.
Episodes
- Episode 1The World of the Franco-Prussian War – The 19th Century up to 1870 I GLORY & DEFEAT
- Episode 21848 -The Year of (Failed) Revolutions I GLORY & DEFEAT
- Episode 3In The Shadow of Napoleon - The 2nd French Empire Before 1870 I GLORY & DEFEAT
- Episode 4The Ems Dispatch - The Outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War I GLORY & Defeat Week 1
- Episode 5The German Wars of Unification - Bismarck's Rise I GLORY & DEFEAT
- Episode 6Franco-Prussian War - First Fighting and Casualties I GLORY & DEFEAT Week 2
- Episode 7French and German Armies in 1870 - Dreyse and Chassepot Rifle Overview I GLORY & DEFEAT Week 3