GARD. 1870. BALL. ARMÉE DE LA LOIRE (HEADQUARTERS OF ORLÉANS - Lot 518

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GARD. 1870. BALL. ARMÉE DE LA LOIRE (HEADQUARTERS OF ORLÉANS - Lot 518
GARD. 1870. BALL. ARMÉE DE LA LOIRE (HEADQUARTERS OF ORLÉANS) & DEFENCE OF PARIS - OFFICIAL DISPATCH from the Minister of the Interior Léon GAMBETTA to the Prefects about the fighting in ORLÉANS and the mail received from PARIS, by the BALLON FRANKLIN, signalling a victory of General TROCHU under Paris - TOURS, December 6, 1870 - "...At noon, General AURELLES DE PALADINES wrote to ORLÉANS: I am changing my dispositions, I am directing the 16th and 17th Corps to Orléans; I am calling the 18th and 20th Corps; I am organizing the resistance, I am in Orléans. ...Mr. Minister of War wanted to go to Orléans himself... I had hoped until the last moment to be able to dispense with evacuating Orléans; all my efforts were insufficient. Tonight the town will be evacuated signed FREYSSINET...The enemy has proposed our evacuation to Orleans, at half past eleven in the evening, on pain of bombardment of the town...I accepted on behalf of the General-in-Chief. The batteries of the Navy were pinned down, the powders and equipment destroyed...we have no news of General AURELLES..." for copy L. LAGET - NÎMES, Impr. Typ. CLAVEL-BALLIVET. Poster (65 x 49) State A
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