
A town of northeast France on the Meuse River near the Belgian border. It was the site of the decisive defeat and surrender of Napoleon III (September 2, 1870) in the Franco-Prussian War. Population: 20,300.
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Town near the Belgian frontier, scene of the French defeat in 1870 [see Franco-Prussian War] and of a German breakthrough in May 1940.
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Sedan, in northern France between Mézières and Montmédy close to the Belgian frontier, was the scene of the decisive German victory on 1 September 1870 (see Deutsch-Französischer Krieg). A French army under Macmahon marching to the relief of Metz was pushed back upon Sedan and encircled by the Prussian Third Army under the Crown Prince (see Friedrich III) and the Army of the Meuse (Maasarmee) under Crown Prince Albert of Saxony. The out-generalled French surrendered in the evening after fierce fighting and the capitulation was formally drawn up the following day. The Emperor Napoleon III was among the prisoners. The fighting was particularly severe in the south-east of the Bavarian sector at Bazeilles and at Givonne to the east where the Prussian Guard was engaged. The victory was regarded as a great feat of arms and a triumph for the Chief of Staff Moltke. A symbol for the new Germany, the Sedantag became a public holiday. In literature Sedan evoked poetry only of a meretricious kind. Sedan was the scene of further fighting in 1914 and in May 1940 during the German invasion of France (see Weltkriege).
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