. Battles of the nineteenth century . ted by the Hohenzollern eagle,and surrounded by a railing hung with shield-like tablets bearing the multitudinous names oi those officers of the 5th Division who fell onthat fatal day. The reverse and coverless sideof the plateau—densely dotted with moundsand monuments testifying to the terrible lossesof the brave Brandenburgers—leads you downto the village of Vionville, where tombstones onthe public highway point to where the dust ofGaul and German is commingled in the recon-ciliation of death. Aht Gott fiir Konig undVaterland^ is the recorded warcry on t
. Battles of the nineteenth century . ted by the Hohenzollern eagle,and surrounded by a railing hung with shield-like tablets bearing the multitudinous names oi those officers of the 5th Division who fell onthat fatal day. The reverse and coverless sideof the plateau—densely dotted with moundsand monuments testifying to the terrible lossesof the brave Brandenburgers—leads you downto the village of Vionville, where tombstones onthe public highway point to where the dust ofGaul and German is commingled in the recon-ciliation of death. Aht Gott fiir Konig undVaterland^ is the recorded warcry on themonument of one Teutonic soldier ; while atits side there stands a marble cross, tastefullywreathed with flowers, to .the memory of onebrave and noble young lieutenant of the Empirewho died on the field of honour with thesewords, preserved in golden letters, on his lips : Ditcs a ma inerc,^ he cried, que jc incurs ensoldat et en chretien. Marchcz en avant!^^— Tell my mother that I died like a soldier anda Christian. Forward I. ir; 1870. 23 554
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