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...surrounds the force at Sedan.
The Germans, under the leadership of Prussian Count Helmuth von Moltke, decisively defeat the French in the Battle of Sedan on September 1-2.
On September 2, 1870, Napoleon III judges the army’s position to be untenable and surrenders the army at Sedan and himself to Bismarck.
Napoleon III’s Empire collapses on September 4 with the proclamation of the Third Republic by republicans in Paris.