The War Of 1870-1 After Sedan Sparknotes

The journal article that this essay will summarize and analyze will be The War of 1870-1: After Sedan by William O'Connor Morris, which was published in The English Historical Review in July 1889. This war that there are talking about is what the French and later the English would name the war we call the Franco-Prussian War. Morris begins his article by referencing the fact that they had previously chronicled another battle of the war previously, titled “The Campaign of the Sedan”. He admits that as an outsider of the is fresh conflict he had only received information from Prussian agents and therefore the conflict of interests in terms of historical accuracy was laid apparent. He states, “…we have drawn more largely than we did before from …show more content…
Morris describes this resilience, “…it soon became apparent that if Paris as yet was unable to fight, she was resolved not to yield, and could defend her walls.” After they could not infiltrate the walls now they began to disperse across the surrounding cities, strangling their grip on the people of Paris. The Germans had previously won a small battle at the city of Metz and now they had returned to crack down on the French to starve the people of Paris of resources; Metz was a major contributing city of the Parisians. Paris later on in the article had begun to be the last center of defense for the total war that the Prussian had issued on the countryside of France. They began a bout defending efforts of three major armies emerging for the first offensive that the French had taken since the encompassing of Paris by the Germans. Although they may have had could break the lines of the Germans and travel to other cities in order to provide relief. This would later be their downfall as the spreading out of the army forces would lead to ultimate falling of Paris to the