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