Léon Gambetta makes a dramatic escape from…

October 1870 CE

Léon Gambetta makes a dramatic escape from the beleaguered capital by balloon and directs a “peoples war” from the government’s delegation in Tours, organizing and outfitting new armies in the Loire Valley to continue the war.

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Tours Centre France View →

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Helmuth von Moltke the Elder View → Léon Gambetta View → Napoleon III View → Otto von Bismarck View → William I, German Emperor View →

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Prussia, Kingdom of View → Baden, Grand Duchy of View → Bavaria, Kingdom of View → Württemberg, Kingdom of View → France, Second Empire of View → German Confederation, North View →

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Franco-Prussian War View →

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