Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: they left 200 officers and 9000 men as prisoners, besides 2000 draught-horses and 33 guns. The demoralization of the French troops must have been so complete as to render them unmanageable. Only one brigade of Lespart's Division took the road to Bitsch, to join the main army at St. Avold; all that remained following an irresistible impulse, fled wildly in a south-western direction towards Zabern. As the General in command of the Third Army had not foreseen a battle on August 6th, the 4th Division of cavalry had not left its quarters in the rear, and was therefore unable to follow in pursuit; nor did it arrive at Gunstett until 9 o'clock in the evening. But, in order to be at hand at any rate for the next day, Prince Albrecht, who was in command, marched on during the night as far as Eberbach; after a three hours' rest he set forth again, and after covering nine miles (German), came upon the rearguard of the enemy near Steinberg, at the foot of the hills. Without infantry it would have been impossible to go further, but the presence of the division had scared the enemy. The First Corps had resumed their march during the night, and reached Saarburg, where it joined the Fifth Corps. Thus the French had a start of five miles, and continued retreating on Luneville, unmolested by the Germans. BATTLE OF SPICHEREN. (August 6th.) Let us now turn to the events which occurred, on that same 6th of August, on another part of the theatre of war. The Second Army, protected on its southern flank by the Third Army, had moved to the westward, while thecorps that had remained behind were brought up by railway. Its front column had, on the 5th, reached the line between Neunkirchen and Zweibriicken, marching unchecked through the denies of the forest-zone of Kaiserslautern. The caval...