Floing

Floing is a common French, located in the department of the the Ardennes and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

Geography

History

  • Place of intense combat during the Battle of Sedan in 1870. September 1st, 1870 wanting to break the surrounding of the plate of It in the western north of the citadel of Sedan. The riders of the General Margueritte, in spite of several heroic loads did not reach that point. What caused an exclamation of King Guillaume of Prussia which observed the course of the Battle since a hill of the village of Frénois, he would have said " die tapferen leute" that one can translate " the Gens" Brave men;. Moreover the hill from where these hunters left Africa took again this exclamation like locality. The failure of these loads involved, the fold in disorder of the French troops inside the Château of Sedan. Wanting to avoid useless massacres, especially of civil populations, Napoleon III made hoist the white flag and accepted the rendering of the city. Napoleon III was made prisoner with these troops what caused the fall of the Second Empire.
  • 2nd world war, on May 13rd, 1940 in the morning in several places of the town of Floing, the 2nd battalion of the Large-Deutschland regiment, as well as the 1st regiment of fusiliers cross the Meuse established a head of bridge. With the place known as " Gaulier" May 13rd at the evening, the Germans build a floating bridge allowing the tanks of the General Guderian and more particularly in 1st PanzerDivision to cross the Meuse, on May 14th. In spite of heroic attempts at resistances in the surroundings of Sedan battles of Stonne, Sy… One week later the German tanks will be already in Abbeville!. It is the rout which goes will involve France in one of its greater military defeats.

Administration

Demography

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of the Ardennes

External bonds

  • Floing on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Floing on the site of INSEE
  • Floing on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Floing on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Floing on Mapquest

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