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The Army of the Rhine (Armée du Rhin) was a French military unit that fought in the Franco-Prussian War.[1]

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  1. 78 relations: Alsace, Army of Châlons, Artillery, Auguste Henri Brincourt, Émile Armand Gibon, Barthélémy Louis Joseph Lebrun, Battle of Borny–Colombey, Battle of Gravelotte, Battle of Mars-la-Tour, Battle of Noisseville, Battle of Spicheren, Battle of Wörth, Battle of Wissembourg (1870), Belfort, Bitche, Camp de Châlons, Cavalry, Charles Auguste Frossard, Charles Nicolas Lacretelle, Charles-Denis Bourbaki, Châlons-en-Champagne, Civitavecchia, Claude Théodore Decaen, Clermont-Ferrand, Colmar, Commander-in-chief, Edmond Le Bœuf, Ernest Courtot de Cissey, Félix Douay, Forbach, François Achille Bazaine, François Certain de Canrobert, Franco-Prussian War, French Army, Haguenau, Henri Jules Bataille, Imperial Guard (Napoleon III), Infantry, Jean Périer, Justin Clinchant, Louis Cousin, Marshal of France, Metz, Nancy, France, Napoleon III, Paris, Patrice de MacMahon, Paul de Ladmirault, Perpignan, Pierre Joseph Jeanningros, ... Expand index (28 more) »

  2. Field armies of France
  3. Military units and formations of the Franco-Prussian War

Alsace

Alsace (Low Alemannic German/Alsatian: Elsàss ˈɛlsɑs; German: Elsass (German spelling before 1996: Elsaß.) ˈɛlzas ⓘ; Latin: Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland.

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Army of Châlons

The Army of Châlons (Armée de Châlons) was a French military formation that fought during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Army of the Rhine (1870) and Army of Châlons are Field armies of France and military units and formations of the Franco-Prussian War.

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Artillery

Artillery are ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms.

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Auguste Henri Brincourt

Auguste Henri Brincourt (June 25, 1823 - August 10, 1909) was a General of the French Army.

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Émile Armand Gibon

Émile Armand Gibon (1813–1870) (Commander of the Légion d'Honneur) was a French General born in Quimper (Département du Finistère, Brittany, France) on 15 September 1813.

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Barthélémy Louis Joseph Lebrun

Barthélémy Louis Joseph Lebrun (22 October 1809, Landrecies - 6 October 1889, Paris) was a French Army officer of the Second French Empire.

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Battle of Borny–Colombey

The Battle of Borny–Colombey or the Battle of Colombey-Nouilly took place on 14 August 1870 as part of the Franco-Prussian War.

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Battle of Gravelotte

The Battle of Gravelotte (or Battle of Gravelotte–St. Privat) on 18 August 1870 was the largest battle of the Franco-Prussian War.

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Battle of Mars-la-Tour

The Battle of Mars-la-Tour (also known as the Battle of Vionville or Battle of Rezonville) was fought on 16 August 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, near the village of Mars-La-Tour in northeast France.

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Battle of Noisseville

The Battle of Noisseville on 31 August 1870 was fought during the Franco-Prussian War and ended in a Prussian victory.

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Battle of Spicheren

The Battle of Spicheren, also known as the Battle of Forbach, was a battle during the Franco-Prussian War.

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Battle of Wörth

The Battle of Wörth, also known as the Battle of Reichshoffen or as the Battle of Frœschwiller, refers to the second battle of Wörth, which took place on 6 August 1870 in the opening stages of the Franco-Prussian War (the first Battle of Wörth occurred on 23 December 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars).

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Battle of Wissembourg (1870)

The Battle of Wissembourg or Battle of Weissenburg, the first of the Franco-Prussian War, was joined when three German army corps surprised the small French garrison at Wissembourg on 4 August 1870.

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Belfort

Belfort (archaic Beffert, Beffort) is a city in northeastern France, situated approximately from the Swiss border.

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Bitche

Bitche (English pronunciation:,; German and Lorraine Franconian: Bitsch) is a commune in Moselle department, in the region of Grand Est in northeastern France.

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Camp de Châlons

The camp de Châlons, also known as camp de Mourmelon, is a military camp of about 10,000 hectares at Mourmelon-le-Grand, near Châlons-en-Champagne.

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Cavalry

Historically, cavalry (from the French word cavalerie, itself derived from cheval meaning "horse") are soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback.

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Charles Auguste Frossard

Charles Auguste Frossard (26 April 1807 – 25 August 1875) was a French general.

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Charles Nicolas Lacretelle

Charles Nicolas Lacretelle (1822–1891) was a French general and statesman born in Pont-à-Mousson (Meurthe-et-Moselle, France) on 30 October 1822.

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Charles-Denis Bourbaki

Charles Denis Sauter Bourbaki (22 April 1816, Pau – 22 September 1897, Bayonne) was a French general.

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Châlons-en-Champagne

Châlons-en-Champagne is a city in the Grand Est region of France.

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Civitavecchia

Civitavecchia (meaning "ancient town") is a city and major sea port on the Tyrrhenian Sea west-northwest of Rome.

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Claude Théodore Decaen

General Claude Théodore Decaen (30 September 1811 in Utrecht – 17 August 1870 in Metz) was a French military commander.

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Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, with a population of 147,284 (2020).

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Colmar

Colmar (Alsatian: Colmer; German: Kolmar) is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France.

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Commander-in-chief

A commander-in-chief or supreme commander is the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed force or a military branch.

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Edmond Le Bœuf

Edmond Leboeuf (5 December 1809 – 7 June 1888) was a marshal of France.

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Ernest Courtot de Cissey

Ernest Louis Octave Courtot de Cissey (1810–1882) was a French general and Prime Minister.

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Félix Douay

Félix Charles Douay (14 August 1816 – 5 May 1879) was a general in the French army whose career spanned the reign of King Louis-Philippe, the Second French Republic, the Second French Empire of Napoleon III, and the early years of the Third Republic.

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Forbach

Forbach (Fuerboch) is a commune in the French department of Moselle, northeastern French region of Grand Est.

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François Achille Bazaine

François Achille Bazaine (13 February 181123 September 1888) was an officer of the French army.

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François Certain de Canrobert

François Marcellin Certain de Canrobert (born François Certain Canrobert; 27 June 1809 – 28 January 1895) was a French Marshal.

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Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.

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French Army

The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (Armée de terre), is the principal land warfare force of France, and the largest component of the French Armed Forces; it is responsible to the Government of France, alongside the French Navy, French Air and Space Force, and the National Gendarmerie.

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Haguenau

Haguenau (Hàwenau or Hàjenöi; Hagenau; historical i) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department of France, of which it is a sub-prefecture.

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Henri Jules Bataille

Henri Jules Bataille (6 September 1816, Le Bourg-d'Oisans, Isère – 10 January 1882, Paris) was a nineteenth-century French soldier.

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Imperial Guard (Napoleon III)

The Imperial Guard of Napoleon III was a military corps in the French Army formed by Napoleon III as a re-establishment of his uncle Napoleon I's Imperial Guard, with an updated version of the original uniforms and almost the same privileges.

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Infantry

Infantry is a specialization of military personnel who engage in warfare combat.

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Jean Périer

Jean (Alexis) Périer (2 February 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French operatic baryton-martin and actor.

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Justin Clinchant

Justin Clinchant (24 December 1820, Thiaucourt-Regniéville – 20 March 1881) was a French Army general of the 19th century.

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Louis Cousin

Louis Cousin, le président Cousin (21 August 1627 – 26 February 1707) was a French translator, historian, lawyer, royal censor and president of the cour des monnaies.

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Marshal of France

Marshal of France (Maréchal de France, plural Maréchaux de France) is a French military distinction, rather than a military rank, that is awarded to generals for exceptional achievements.

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Metz

Metz (Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then Mettis) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.

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Nancy, France

Nancy is the prefecture of the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle.

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Napoleon III

Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as the second Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Patrice de MacMahon

Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de MacMahon, marquis de MacMahon, duc de Magenta (13 June 1808 – 17 October 1893), was a French general and politician, with the distinction of Marshal of France.

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Paul de Ladmirault

Paul de Ladmirault (17 February 1808, in Montmorillon – 1 February 1898, in Sillars) was a French general active in the French conquest of Algeria and during the wars of the Second French Empire.

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Perpignan

Perpignan (Perpinyà,; Perpinhan) is the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in Southern France, in the heart of the plain of Roussillon, at the foot of the Pyrenees a few kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea and the scrublands of the Corbières massif.

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Pierre Joseph Jeanningros

Pierre Jean Joseph Jeanningros (21 November 1816 Besançon, France – 30 April 1902) was a French général, famous for having commanded the French Foreign Legion.

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Pierre Louis Charles de Failly

Pierre-Louis Charles de Failly (21 January 1810 – 15 November 1892) was a French general.

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Saint-Avold

Saint-Avold (Lorraine Franconian: Sänt Avuur) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

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Second French Empire

The Second French Empire, officially the French Empire, was an Imperial Bonapartist regime, ruled by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon III) from 14 January 1852 to 27 October 1870, between the Second and the Third French Republics.

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Siege of Metz (1870)

The Siege of Metz was a battle fought during the Franco-Prussian War from August 19 to October 27, 1870 and ended in a decisive allied German victory.

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Siege of Strasbourg

The siege of Strasbourg took place during the Franco-Prussian War, and resulted in the French surrender of the fortress on 28 September 1870.

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Siege of Toul

The siege of Toul was the siege of the fortified French town of Toul from 16 August to 23 September 1870 by Prussian, Bavarian and Württemberg forces during the Franco-Prussian War.

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Soissons

Soissons is a commune in the northern French department of Aisne, in the region of Hauts-de-France.

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Thionville

Thionville (Diedenhofen) is a city in the northeastern French department of Moselle.

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13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment

The 13e Régiment de Dragons Parachutistes (13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment) or 13e RDP is a special reconnaissance unit of the French Army.

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1st Army Corps (France)

The 1st Army Corps (1er Corps d'Armée) was first formed before World War I. During World War II it fought in the Campaign for France in 1940, on the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Elba in 1943 - 1944 and in the campaigns to liberate France in 1944 and invade Germany in 1945.

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1st Infantry Regiment (France)

The 1st Infantry Regiment or 1er RI is an infantry regiment of the French Army, founded in 1479 as one of the oldest regiments in active service in the world.

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1st Parachute Hussar Regiment

The 1st Parachute Hussar Regiment (1er RHP) is an airborne cavalry unit in the French Army, founded in 1720 by Hungarian noble Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny.

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2nd Army Corps (France)

The 2nd Army Corps (e Corps d'Armée) was first formed before World War I. During World War II it fought in the Campaign for France in 1940 and during the 1944–45 campaigns in southern France, the Vosges Mountains, Alsace, and southwestern Germany.

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2nd Dragoon Regiment (France)

The 2nd Dragoon Regiment (2e régiment de dragons, 2e RD) is the only NBC Defense Unit of the French Army, stationed at Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, by Saumur in Maine-et-Loire.

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35th Infantry Regiment (France)

35th Infantry Regiment (35e régiment d'infanterie) is an infantry regiment of the French Army.

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3rd Algerian Tirailleurs Regiment

The 3rd Algerian Tirailleurs Regiment (3e R.T.A) was an infantry unit of the Army of Africa in the French Army.

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3rd Army Corps (France)

The 3rd Army Corps (3e Corps d'Armée) was a corps-sized military formation of the French Army that fought during both World War I and World War II, and was active after World War II until finally being disbanded on 1 July 1998.

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3rd Dragoon Regiment (France)

The 3rd Dragoon Regiment (3e régiment de dragons or 3e RD) was a cavalry regiment in the French Army, it was active in various forms from 1649 to 1997.

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4th Army Corps (France)

The 4th Army Corps of the French Army was reformed in 1873 at Le Mans under Général Édouard-Jean-Étienne Deligny, after being surrounded and taken prisoner in the siege of Metz (1870).

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4th Dragoon Regiment (France)

The 4th Dragoon Regiment (4e Régiment de dragons, 4e RD) was a cavalry unit created during the Ancien Regime and was dissolved on July 11, 2014.

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4th Hussar Regiment (France)

The 4th Hussar Regiment (4e régiment de hussards) is a hussar regiment in the French Army, raised and embodied in 1783 and still in existence.

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5th Army Corps (France)

The 5th Army Corps was a military unit of the French Army which fought in the Franco-Prussian War and both World Wars.

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5th Dragoon Regiment (France)

The 5th Dragoon Regiment (5e Régiment de Dragons or 5e RD) is a cavalry unit of the French Army, created under the Ancien Régime in 1656 and reactivated in 2015.

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5th Hussar Regiment (France)

The 5th Hussar Regiment (5e régiment de hussards or 5e RH) was a French Hussar regiment.

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6th Dragoon Regiment (France)

The 6th Regiment of Dragoons (6e Régiment de Dragons) is a French regiment of dragoon cavalry formed under the old regime, and dissolved in 1992.

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7th Hussar Regiment (France)

The 7th Hussar Regiment (7e Régiment de Hussards) was a regiment of hussars in the French Army.

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8th Dragoon Regiment (France)

For the 8th Dragoons in the British Army, see 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars. The 8th Dragoon Regiment (8e régiment de dragons or 8e RD) was a cavalry regiment in the French Army created under the Ancien Régime in 1674 by the Marquis of Heudicourt.

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9th Parachute Chasseur Regiment

The 9th Parachute Chasseur Regiment (9e RCP) was an airborne unit of the French Army that was part of the French Airborne Units and all three histories of the 10th Parachute Division, 25th Parachute Division and the 11th Parachute Brigade.

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See also

Field armies of France

Military units and formations of the Franco-Prussian War

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Rhine_(1870)

Also known as Army of the Rhin (1870).

, Pierre Louis Charles de Failly, Saint-Avold, Second French Empire, Siege of Metz (1870), Siege of Strasbourg, Siege of Toul, Soissons, Thionville, 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment, 1st Army Corps (France), 1st Infantry Regiment (France), 1st Parachute Hussar Regiment, 2nd Army Corps (France), 2nd Dragoon Regiment (France), 35th Infantry Regiment (France), 3rd Algerian Tirailleurs Regiment, 3rd Army Corps (France), 3rd Dragoon Regiment (France), 4th Army Corps (France), 4th Dragoon Regiment (France), 4th Hussar Regiment (France), 5th Army Corps (France), 5th Dragoon Regiment (France), 5th Hussar Regiment (France), 6th Dragoon Regiment (France), 7th Hussar Regiment (France), 8th Dragoon Regiment (France), 9th Parachute Chasseur Regiment.