Sedan
September 2, 1870
Trapped in the little fortress town of Sedan with his army ruined, Napoleon III surrendered his sword and eighty-three thousand men to Wilhelm I of Prussia. The Second Empire had two more days to live. The republic that was proclaimed in Paris on the 4th would lose the war and be born again out of the wreckage.
In context
Also in 1870 (4 other events on record)
- Franco-Prussian War Declared · Europe · War
- Rome Taken by Italy · Europe · Politics
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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