The surrender of Napoleon III to the Prussians after the Battle of Sedan during the Franco-Prussian War aka Franco-German War in 1870. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, 1808 –1873. The only president (1848–52) of the French Second Republic and, as Napoleon III, the Emperor (1852–70) of the Second French Empire. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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