Karl von Steinmetz28 July 1870
Mobilizes the First Army in the north
Germany · Warfare / Franco-Prussian War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Mobilizes the First Army in the north
Loses to the French by sending his First Army to be massacred in a ravine
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