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The great battles in Alsace-Lorraine & the siege of Paris left the southeast vulnerable; the radical left had a window of opportunity in Lyon & Marseilles, even while Garibaldi smashed his Mobiles against the Germans.

(de Ladmiraults IV corps at Gravelotte) waited with as much confidence as ludicrous red trousers allowed. Their trenches & rifle pits had dropped those lovely scarlet targets below the line of sight & their comrades in the artillery wheeled the cumbersome mitrailleuses into place for use against any who moved across the open slopes before them.

They held the center; the Germans presumed it was the right flank..