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over to tho enemy 120,000 combatants, 20,000 



\\ ..in. .!,!. lii- cannon, guns, standards, ami tin- 



strongest citadel of France. Against those 



os, General Boyer entered nn indignant 



t, from Brussels, on October 81st, ami in 



tho name of tho whole Army of tho Rhine, 



.11 as of its honored chief, ho declared 



that (iamhetta, by speaking of infamy, out- 



r.-iL'vd tho public conscience no loss than tho 



brave soldii-rs. 



A tow days before tho capitulation of Motz, 

 on October 24th, tho fortress of Schlcttstadt, 

 in Alsace, had surrendered. It was soon 

 mber 7th) followed by tho surrender of 

 Fort Mortier, near New Broisach, and (No- 

 vember 10th) by the fortress of Now Breisach. 

 On November 8th, tho important fortress of 

 Verdun capitulated, thus removing the last 

 obstruction to the direct railroad communica- 

 tion between Paris, Metz, and the Prussian 

 Kliine province. In Schlettstadt, 2,400 prison- 

 ers were made ; 5,000 in Now Breisach, and 

 4,100 in Verdun. Tho capitulation of Schlett- 

 stadt and New Breisach nearly completed tho 

 occupation of Alsace, of which only Belfort 

 remained in tho hands of the French. 



Tho investment of Paris was not to be com- 

 1>1 :1 without at least a few feeble attempts 

 on tho part of tho French to delay it. < n 

 Si-jiti-mlii T 17th, th<- Filth (n-rman army 

 corps threw a pontoon bridge across the Seine, 

 near Villeneuve. A brigade of infantry, with 

 two squadrons of cavalry, and two batteries 

 which occupied the heights of I.iim-il in 

 to protect the bridge, was attacked by si> 

 talions of French infantry and successfully 

 stood its ground. On the 18th of September, 

 tho Ninth Division of tho Fifth (iennan corps 

 reached Bievre ; tho Tenth Division, Palaiseau. 

 A part of tho Ninth Division had a severe en- 

 gagement with tho French in the neighbor- 

 hood of Petit Bicetre. Tho first attack of the 

 French was repulsed. On the next day, Sep- 

 tember 29th, the attack was renewed with 

 greater force, and a larger number of German 

 troops became involved. At length, howevt-r, 

 the French had to leave their position, which 

 extended to tho west of Plessis-Piquet. While 

 the Fifth Corps was advancing to the occupa- 

 tion of Versailles, the Sixth, which, like the 

 Fifth, had crossed the Seine near Villeneuve, 

 advanced toward Paris by way of Villeneuve, 



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Le Roi, and Orly. Tho fire from a very strong 

 intrenchment, which the enemy had thrown up 

 south of its forts near Villejuif, arrested the 

 further advance of the corps ; but all the at- 

 tacks made by the French were successfully 

 repulsed. They lost about 1,000 prisoners, 

 and had to fall back behind Ch&tillon, within 

 tho fortifications of Paris. The crown prince 

 established his headquarters at Versailles, 

 Avhcro 2,000 Gardes Mobile were made pris- 



oners. General Trochu, in an order of the 

 day, severely censured the First Regiment of 

 Zouaves for its demoralization, and threatened 

 severe measures against undisciplined and de- 

 moralized regiments. Numerous squadrons of 

 cavalry maintained the connection of the army 

 of the Prussian Crown Prince, south and west 

 of Paris, with that of the Saxon Crown Prince, 

 which invested Paris on the north. 

 Soon after the establishment of tho repub- 



