The Prince of Angien and the Explorers Podcast

The French and Prussians made contact outside Zalfald, just before nine in the morning on October 10th. The initial French force was small, just a vanguard of a few thousand men. But as the morning wore on, French units continued to arrive, and it soon became clear that L'on would have a significant numerical advantage. With every other Prussian unit already in retreat, there was no hope of any help arriving. A messenger galloped into Prince Louis Ferdinand's headquarters canceling the flanking maneuver and ordering a retreat. If this man had arrived just three hours earlier, the Prince and his troops would have been safely on the march north. Instead, the prince and