The Besieged Fortress

Original title: La Forteresse assiégée
Duration: 140 min
Release date: 2006-11-22
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A survivor of the first battles of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 , soldier Charles-Henri Mondel, fleeing with the regiments from a rout of Mac-Mahon 's army , took refuge in the citadel of Bitche , the last French stronghold to resist the enemy's breakthrough.

Documentary War History

La Forteresse assiégée

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