The Military Triumph at Berlin: the Sedan Trophy at the Potsdam Gate, 1871. German troops return from the Franco-Prussian War. 'The triumphal entry into the choicest troops of the German army, and representatives of all engaged in the late a grand military and national way of the troops into the city lay first through the street called La Belle Alliance (which is the Prussian designation for Waterloo), through Konigratz-street (this being another name for Sadowa), round the line of the old town wall, past the Halle Gate and the Anhalt Gate of the city, acr
The Military Triumph at Berlin: the Sedan Trophy at the Potsdam Gate, 1871. German troops return from the Franco-Prussian War. 'The triumphal entry into the choicest troops of the German army, and representatives of all engaged in the late a grand military and national way of the troops into the city lay first through the street called La Belle Alliance (which is the Prussian designation for Waterloo), through Konigratz-street (this being another name for Sadowa), round the line of the old town wall, past the Halle Gate and the Anhalt Gate of the city, across the Ascanische-Platz and the Potsdamer-Platz, thence entering through the Brandenburg Gate, crossing the Pariser-Platz, traversing the avenue of the Linden, and coming at length into the Opern-Platz, where, in front of Marshal Blucher's statue, was held the concluding parade. A statue of Berlin was erected at the Halle Gate; and in the Potsdamer-Platz was a trophy of the battle of Sedan, with a colossal group of statues, representing Strasbourg and Metz, seated at the feet of Victory, who looked upon them from a battery of cannon'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.
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