'Map to Illustrate General Faidherbe's Campaign 1870-71', (c1872). Map of northern France: 'Drawn under the Superintendance of Captain Hozier', showing the towns of Amiens, Cambrai, St Quentin and Laon. French military commander Louis Faidherbe was ordered to attack the Prussians - he led his forces into an open battle at St Quentin and his army was defeated in January 1871. From "The Franco-Prussian War: its causes, incidents and consequences", Volume II, by Captain H M Hozier. [William Mackenzie, London, 1872]

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