Talk:Armée de la Loire

There are some details that must be corrected.
 * von der Tann was commander of the first royal bavarian corps an the 22. prussian division and the kavallerie divisions Nr. 2, 4 and 6.
 * reinforcement after Coulmiers was by the grand duke of Mecklenburg, who had besieged Toul, Prince Friedrich Carl from Metz arrived 10 oder 12 days later in that area, just in time for the battle of Beaune-la-Rolande (28.11.1870)
 * Villepion was an victory for the french, but Villepion is a part of Terminier. Please see maps.google for this detail, Terminier in direction north-west (an the road over Faverolles), so this was just one single battle on the 01.12.1870. This battle is documented because the later Generalfeldmarschall Prince Leopold of Bavaria was part of this.
 * Next day there was the Battle of Loigny-Poupry, just one battle and not two. This also was an victory for the prussians.
 * The Second Battle of Orléans (1870) (3. and 4. 12.1870) is missing, the first battle was around Artenay.
 * The Battle of Beaugency see german wiki (08 to 10.12.1870) is completly missing, this was a mayor battle with 137.000 soldiers.
 * The battle of Le Mans was also a mayor fight over 2 or 3 days (fights an the 09.01.1871 are in sometimes resources part of the battle). This battle destroyed the army of the loire, 7.000 dead or wounded, 22.000 POW, 50.000 deserted.
 * The Armee in general was not equal to the Army of the Rhine, most of the soldiers were Francs-tireurs. They were trained only for a short time, the army had only a few officers with fighting experiences and they had not enough artillery. Please see Camp Conlie "Battles". The equipment of the whole army was with different rifles.

I tried to fix the first two points. Sorry for my poor english and greetings from the de.wikipedia. --Batke (talk) 18:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I made a litte template with the Army Corps an their commanders based on the articles an on the  (Ordre de bataillie). Perhaps someone can translate it and add it to this article. Thanks a lot--Batke (talk) 21:12, 27 October 2008 (UTC)