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ACHIEVEMENTS OF FIELD ARTILLERY. 
In what is known then as the Grand Duke's 1 battle, that which was 
prolonged for four days, the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th of December, 1870, 
near Beaugency on the Loire, between Tours and Orleans, the guns 
again were called upon to make up for a disparity of numbers, and the 
manner in which they responded to the appeal enabled their comrades 
to secure victory where defeat sometimes seemed perilously near. The 
French had been beaten in the two days' battle at Orleans on the 3rd 
BATTLE OF BEAUGENCr.CBAVANT.-7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Bee., 1870. 
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and 4th, and were falling back to the south and west. Their left wing, 
under the able Chanzy, was in better order than any other portion of 
their forces, and it was to it that the Grand Duke was now opposed. 
1 The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. 
