Franco Prussian Quotes

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“...the weather was atrocious. A frightful storm burst upon us. We camped literally in water...To cap our woe, there was no means to light a single fire. We had to imagine dinner.”
Leonce Patry, The Reality of War: A Memoir of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, 1870-1871

Leopold II
“It is not the first time that Belgium has had to undergo a dangerous ordeal. But never has the situation been more serious than today! … Freedom, honor, the very existence of the fatherland is at stake.”
Leopold II