Battle of Vendôme
| Battle of Vendôme | |||||||
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| Part of Franco-Prussian War | |||||||
The castle where four Artillery batteries stood | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| French Republic | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Antoine Chanzy Bernard Jaureguiberry |
Prince Friedrich Karl Konstantin von Voigts-Rhetz | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| Army of the Loire | X Corps | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 6 cannons and 1 mitrailleuse machine gun captured, Unknown Captured | 300 Prussian Soldiers Captured | ||||||
The Battle of Vendôme took place during the Franco-Prussian War, it lasted from 14 to 17 December 1870 in Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher, France. In this fierce fighting, the X Army of the Kingdom of Prussia under the command of General Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz and the 2nd Army of Prussia which was commanded by Prince Friedrich Karl, attacked the French Army of the Loire by Minister Antoine Chanzy and Admiral Bernard Jaureguiberry who was a former navy officer of France. The Prussians defeated the French in a gun battle on 16 December and finally won the battle. With this victory, the Germans attacked the enemy's right flank and forced the French forces to withdraw from their stronger defensive position at Fréteval, where they engaged another Prussian army indecisively. The victory at Vendôme also brought the Prussian armies some French prisoners and weapons, while the disadvantage of Chanzy's army forced him to hastily withdraw to Le Mans.