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Great Battles
SEDAN
As a Prussian army marches rapidly to trap its French opponent,
the French prepare to ght for their survival against one of the
world’s foremost military powers
WORDS WILLIAM WELSH
French snipers hold out
against Bavarian troops
in Alphonse de Neuville’s
‘The last cartridges’
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