The War in France - A Brief History

The government of national defense believed that they had enough food inside paris to hold out for about 80 days. The first german units arrived at the outskirts of that ring of fortresses around paris on september fifteenth. Inside the city, the parisians dug in with patriotic hope that they would outlast the germans and win the war. But luckily for them, general trochu made no effort to stop the envelopment. And when bismarck's terms got out into the public,. the franco prussian war really did transform from a war of dynastic aggrandizement for emperor napoleon into a war of national defence against a foreign invader who