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Real Time History
Season 2021 · Episode 18
The Battle of Orléans 1870 - French Raw Recruits vs. Experienced German Soldiers
0.013mOctober 14, 2021
All across France French Armies have been raised from any available troops. From international volunteers to raw teenaged recruits. How these sub-par soldiers fair against professional German soldiers is not hard to guess and we can see how that goes in the first battles for Orléans.
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
- Episode 8Opening Battles of the Franco-Prussian War: Saarbrücken, Wissembourg, Wörth I GLORY & DEFEAT Week 4
- Episode 9Battle of Colombey-Nouilly - Strasbourg Under Siege I GLORY & DEFEAT Week 5
- Episode 10Bloody Victories - The Battles For Metz | GLORY & DEFEAT Week 6
- Episode 11An Entire French Army Trapped in Metz During the Franco-Prussian War
- Episode 12Battle of Sedan - German Victory and Fall of the French Empire (Franco-Prussian War)
- Episode 13Why France Did Not Surrender After Sedan - Empress Eugénie Flees The Country I Franco-Prussian War
- Episode 14Paris Fights Back - The French Battle Against German Encirclement I Franco-Prussian War 1870
- Episode 15How the Pope's Army Marched Against Prussia 1870 - Fall of Rome I Franco-Prussian War
- Episode 16This French General Saved Strasbourg From Total Destruction During the Franco-Prussian War 1870
- Episode 17Rise of Guerrilla Warfare & Daring Balloon Escapes - The Franco-Prussian War Early October 1870
- Episode 18The Battle of Orléans 1870 - French Raw Recruits vs. Experienced German Soldiers
- Episode 19French Guerrilla War & German Retaliation during the Franco-Prussian War 1870
- Episode 20The Last Imperial Army Surrenders at Metz - Battle of Le Bourget 1870
- Episode 21The 1st (Failed) Paris Commune Uprising During the Franco-Prussian War 1870
- Episode 22The Weird And Only Naval Battle of The Franco-Prussian War
- Episode 23Bismarck Gets Closer To German Unification - A New Spanish King I GLORY & DEFEAT
- Episode 24The Battles of Amiens and Beaune-La-Rolande 1870 - Bismarck Wants His Kaiser
- Episode 25French Breakout Attempt During The Siege of Paris 1870 - Battle of Villiers-Champigny
- Episode 26The Frozen Battlefields of France - Battle of Beaugency 1870
- Episode 27German States Vote For Unity - Battle of Nuits-St. Georges 1870 I GLORY & DEFEAT Week 23
- Episode 28How Soldiers and Civilians Celebrated Christmas During the Franco-Prussian War 1870
- Episode 29German Artillery Shells Paris Into Submission I GLORY & DEFEAT