Franco-Prussian War - Quiz
A) 4 August B) 15 August C) 5 August D) 6 August
A) MacMahon B) Bazaine C) Frossard D) Von Steinmetz
A) Intendant General Wolff stated it was not feasible B) General Le Bœuf rejected the logistics plan C) The French lacked horses D) The trains had been destroyed
A) A note left behind B) Decoy fires C) A sudden drop in gunfire D) Abandoned cannons
A) At the Moselle river B) On the banks of the Rhine C) Near the city of Wissembourg D) Between Spicheren and Forbach
A) He was confident in his position B) His telegraph lines were cut C) He was injured during the first assault D) He treated the attacks as minor skirmishes
A) Krupp artillery B) Chassepot rifle C) Gatling gun D) Dreyse needle gun
A) The destruction of a key bridge B) Seriously flawed communications C) A direct order from Napoleon III D) Heavy rain and mud
A) He was captured by German troops B) He ran out of ammunition C) He feared he was being outflanked D) He received orders to surrender
A) They were disappointed that the French had reinforced B) They were startled to find Frossard had abandoned the heights C) They began a major victory parade D) They were ordered to retreat back to Saarbrücken
A) Frossard B) Le Bœuf C) MacMahon D) Bazaine
A) Drawing them out into an open field battle B) Immediate total destruction by artillery C) Forcing a surrender through blockade D) Keep them on the Saar until surrounding armies arrived
A) Moltke B) Von Steinmetz C) Friedrich Karl D) Von Glume
A) The German 2nd Army B) A French army C) The Prussian reserve D) The German 1st Army
A) A unified front across the entire border B) A highly concentrated line of deep reserves C) A mobile defense meant for rapid retreat D) Protected against every attack point but unable to support each other
A) The Seven Weeks' War B) War of 1870 C) The Crimean Conflict D) The Napoleonic Wars
A) 10 May 1871 B) 4 September 1870 C) 28 January 1871 D) 19 July 1870
A) Wilhelm I B) Emile Ollivier C) Napoleon III D) Leopold of Hohenzollern
A) Württemberg B) Saxony C) Baden D) Bavaria
A) Frankfurt Dispatch B) Paris Communiqué C) Ems Dispatch D) Berlin Telegram
A) Treaty of Versailles B) Treaty of Paris C) Treaty of Frankfurt D) Treaty of Berlin
A) The Napoleonic Coup B) The Reign of Terror C) Paris Commune D) The Second Empire
A) The French ambition B) Realpolitik C) Politique des pourboires D) The tipping policy
A) Emile Ollivier B) Adolphe Thiers C) Agenor, duc de Gramont D) Jacques Louis Randon
A) 13 July 1870 B) 19 July 1870 C) 15 July 1870 D) 2 August 1870
A) The war party B) The republican opposition C) The imperial guards D) The diplomatic corps
A) 288,000 soldiers B) 400,000 soldiers C) 426,000 soldiers D) 800,000 soldiers
A) By ballot B) By physical fitness testing C) By lottery D) By volunteer application
A) Seven years B) Ten years C) Five years D) Three years
A) 288,000 men B) 1,000,000 men C) 800,000 men D) 426,000 men
A) Patrice de MacMahon B) Adolphe Niel C) François Achille Bazaine D) Napoleon III
A) 1,000,000 men B) 288,000 men C) 800,000 men D) 400,000 men
A) 800,000 men B) 426,000 men C) 400,000 men D) 288,000 men
A) 1,000 metres B) 1,500 metres C) 500 metres D) 2,000 metres
A) A rubber ring seal B) A hydraulic pressure valve C) A screw-in bolt D) A metal spring lock
A) Modern field mortars B) Rifled, muzzle-loaded La Hitte guns C) Smoothbore iron cannons D) Breech-loading steel howitzers
A) Mounted on horseback B) Grouped in batteries like cannons C) Distributed to infantry squads D) Fixed in permanent concrete bunkers
A) Adolphe Niel B) François Achille Bazaine C) Patrice de MacMahon D) Napoleon III
A) Guerrilla warfare B) Offensive C) Defensive D) Naval blockading
A) Saxony B) Austria C) Bavaria D) Prussia
A) Waterloo B) Königgrätz C) Cannae D) Austerlitz
A) Chassepot rifle B) Mauser bolt-action C) Dreyse needle gun D) Krupp rifle
A) 600 meters B) 1,200 meters C) 300 meters D) 1,000 meters
A) British naval artillery B) French bronze muzzle loading cannon C) Krupp 6-pounder steel breech-loading cannon D) Austrian iron smoothbore cannon
A) Prussian Kriegsakademie B) Berlin Military College C) Royal Cadet Academy D) Potsdam Officer School
A) Time-fused shell B) Contact-detonated shell C) Incendiary projectile D) Solid shot
A) 250,500 B) 202,448 C) 150,000 D) 300,000
A) Marshal Canrobert B) Marshal MacMahon C) General Frossard D) Marshal Niel
A) Châlons-sur-Marne B) Paris C) Metz D) Wissembourg
A) Napoleon III B) General Lebrun C) Marshal MacMahon D) Marshal François Canrobert
A) Bavarian Palatinate B) Prussian Rhineland C) Châlons-sur-Marne D) Belgium
A) 16 B) 40 C) 83 D) 86
A) Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm B) Prince Friedrich Karl C) General Karl von Steinmetz D) General Frossard
A) Wissembourg B) Saarbrücken C) Saarlouis D) Forbach
A) 30 miles B) 20 miles C) 48 miles D) 50 miles
A) Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot B) General Frossard C) General Le Bœuf D) Abel Douay
A) 1st Division B) 4th Division C) 3rd Division D) 2nd Division
A) During the hand-to-hand fighting in the town B) He was captured and executed C) A caisson exploded near him D) He was shot by a Prussian sniper
A) Bitche B) Saverne C) Frœschwiller D) Wissembourg
A) 140,000 B) 10,500 C) 35,000 D) 9,200
A) About 50% B) About 10% C) About 75% D) About 25%
A) A hilltop B) A mountain pass C) A valley D) A riverbank
A) Southerly B) Easterly C) Northerly D) Westerly
A) The Vosges mountains B) The Pyrenees C) The Jura mountains D) The Alps
A) 20,163 B) 15,780 C) 13,761 D) 12,275
A) 112,800 B) 188,332 C) 160,000 D) 30,000
A) Rozérieulles B) St. Privat C) Roncourt D) Rezonville
A) Rozérieulles B) Vionville C) Mance ravine D) St. Privat
A) VII Corps B) II Corps C) XII Corps D) III Corps
A) Mitrailleuses B) Grenades C) Mortars D) Flamethrowers
A) 15,780 B) 20,163 C) 12,275 D) 13,761
A) Three days B) Two weeks C) Two months D) One month
A) Playing dominoes B) Writing memoirs C) Painting portraits D) Reading poetry
A) Moltke B) Bismarck C) Frederick William D) The Crown Prince of Saxony
A) Southeast B) Northwest C) Northeast D) Southwest
A) Metz B) Beaumont C) Floing D) Châlons
A) The retreat from Gravelotte B) The battle at Beaumont C) The surrender at Metz D) The defeat at Sedan
A) 100 B) 40 C) 564 D) 774
A) Royalist B) Republican C) Socialist D) Bonapartist
A) 19 September B) 4 September C) 26 October D) 6 September
A) M. Edmond Regnier B) General Trochu C) Jules Favre D) Léon Gambetta
A) General Trochu B) Léon Gambetta C) Napoleon III D) Jules Favre
A) Giuseppe Garibaldi B) Léon Gambetta C) Marshal Bazaine D) General Trochu
A) Eleven B) Three C) Twenty-six D) Eight
A) 888 B) 238 C) 173 D) 11 |
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