The Besieged Fortress
- Media type
- Film
La Forteresse assiégée · The Besieged Fortress · MOVIE
Documentary, War, History 2006
About this title
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.