Donchery

The landau went on toward Donchery at a leisurely pace, and we, inferring that there was something more important at hand just then than the recovery of our trap, followed at a respectful distance.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

It having been definitely ascertained that the demoralized French were retiring to Sedan, on the evening of August 31 the German army began the work of hemming them in there, so disposing the different corps as to cover the ground from Donchery around by Raucourt to Carignan.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

This little house is on the east side of the Donchery road, near its junction with that to Frenois, and stands about twenty paces back from the highway.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Not quite a mile from Donchery is a cluster of three or four cottages, and at the first of these the landau stopped to await, as we afterward ascertained, Count Bismarck, with whom the diplomatic negotiations were to be settled.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

And when the King of Prussia turned westwards he saw another plain, that of Donchery, empty fields extending to Briancourt, Marancourt and Vrigne-aux-Bois, a waste of grey earth, powdery-looking under the blue sky, and when he turned to the east there was yet again, opposite the huddled French lines, an immense vista, a crowd of villages.....

Archive 2009-04-01 Daniel Little 2009

And when the King of Prussia turned westwards he saw another plain, that of Donchery, empty fields extending to Briancourt, Marancourt and Vrigne-aux-Bois, a waste of grey earth, powdery-looking under the blue sky, and when he turned to the east there was yet again, opposite the huddled French lines, an immense vista, a crowd of villages.....

The Franco-Prussian War Daniel Little 2009

Not quite a mile from Donchery is a cluster of three or four cottages, and at the first of these the landau stopped to await, as we afterward ascertained, Count Bismarck, with whom the diplomatic negotiations were to be settled.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

It having been definitely ascertained that the demoralized French were retiring to Sedan, on the evening of August 31 the German army began the work of hemming them in there, so disposing the different corps as to cover the ground from Donchery around by Raucourt to

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

This little house is on the east side of the Donchery road, near its junction with that to Frenois, and stands about twenty paces back from the highway.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

The landau went on toward Donchery at a leisurely pace, and we, inferring that there was something more important at hand just then than the recovery of our trap, followed at a respectful distance.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger