Gravelotte Travel Guide

 mtncorg Says:  General von Alvensleben’s IIIrd Corps was grossly outnumbered on 16 August 1870. Most of his troops had been used up by the early afternoon. Fearing a French cavalry attack on his left flank north of Rezonville, he ordered the 12th Cavalry Brigade under General von Bredow to... 

 mtncorg Says:  With the scale of some of the victories of the war of 1870, one might surmise that the Prussian army was far superior to that of the French. However, the Prussians always seemed to leave their share of dead on the battlefields. They did have the advantage of usually having... 

 mtncorg Says:  The future War Museum of 1870 is to be built across the street from the Halle du Souvenir. This museum should of a long ways in helping the casual visitor to make sense of what the war meant to both France and Germany, Plans have begun to integrate the monuments found out on... 

 mtncorg Says:  Built in 1875, the Halle du Souvenir was built on the grounds of the cemetery of mass graves that followed the Battle of Gravelotte-St Privat 18 August 1870. Individual graves remember fallen German aristocratic officers. Inside the Halle, the individual units of the German...