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.
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