Battle of Beaumont
The Bataille of Beaumont takes place the August 30th 1870, during the Guerre free-Prussian and ends in a French defeat.
The battle opposes the Fifth French Army corps of the general Pierre Louis Charles de Failly, in the Fourth and Douzième German Army corps of Albert of Saxony. The French are surprised in their camping, and are pushed back until Mouzon. The French lose 4.800 soldiers and 42 guns, the Prussians 3.500 soldiers.
August 30th, the general of Failly scorning the warnings of the inhabitants of Beaumont-in-Argonne, lets French be made surprise, close to the Meuse, at the moment when the soldiers eat soup. Victim of the impéritie of its chief, the division of Failly is crushed, discovers the principal army corps of the camps of Châlons of Mac-Mahon, moving on Sedan. The rout precipitates the final disaster of the Bataille of Sedan.
References
- George Bruce. Harbottle' S Dictionary off Battles. (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981) (ISBN 0-442-22336-6).
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