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GRAVELOTTE

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 383 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRAVELOTTE  , a

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village of
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Lorraine between
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Metz and the
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French frontier, famous as the
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scene of the
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battle of the 18th of
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August 187o between the Germans under
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King
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William of
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Prussia and the French under
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Marshal
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Bazaine (see METZ and FRANCO-
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GERMAN
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WAR) . The battlefield extends from the
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woods which border. the Moselle above Metz to Roncourt, near the
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river
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Orne . Other villages which played an important
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part in the battle of Gravelotte were
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Saint Privat, Amanweiler or Amanvillers and Sainte-
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Marie-aux-Chenes, all lying to the N. of Gravelotte .

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