"The Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden actually chose to conduct maritime exercises next to the English Channel at this time?"

Queen Victoria was very puzzled.

She is not used to it recently, because her fourth daughter, Princess Louise, will marry Crown Prince Frederick of King William III of Greece in Athens on March 10.

Since three months ago, the British aristocracy and many conservative forces have been quite critical of this.

The reason is that Princess Louise is married outside the British Empire. If she is too familiar with the current British policy, it will have a crisis for the United Kingdom.

In the first two months, they were a little scruples, but at the end of last month, they sent a joint letter directly to her who delivered it to Buckingham Palace.

So starting from this month, she really does not have a life secretary by her side.

She is currently considering letting her third daughter, Princess Alice, the Duchess of England married to John Campbell, Duke of Argyll, eat double-cooked meat and become her life secretary again.

However, it is still in operation, and when she thinks of those people in the parliament, she has a headache.

Thinking of the embarrassed appearance of Napoleon III being checked and balanced on the front line after Queen Eugenie's regency of the Paris government, Queen Victoria's heart was cold.

"What's happening in France, will it happen in the UK one day?"

Queen Victoria began to ponder in her heart, "Perhaps, there should be more checks and balances between the Tories and the Whigs. But before that, the provocations of several countries in the Netherlands to France must be understood first."

Afterwards, the Queen gave an order that the British First Fleet dispatched nearly half of the fleet to Dover in the southeast, and watched vigilantly at the Netherlands, Denmark, and the Netherlands, which were also exercising off the coast of West Flanders, the Netherlands, in the eastern part of the Strait of Calais. combined fleet.

However, the two sides seem to be reluctant to have misunderstandings, and they are not too close.

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On September 26, 1869, north of the English Channel in northern France, the former Belgium was officially launched off the coast of the Port of Ostend, West Flanders, the Netherlands, but the French troops were guarding the port of Boulogne, a French territory in the southern part of the Nordic Union Navy. .

In the small Strait of Calais, there are three ports with more than 130,000 tons of warships stationed. You must know that this tonnage is the tonnage of Portugal before, which is enough to make it into the top seven in the world navy ranking, and there is still the world's most advanced steam battleship.

It can be said that this fleet alone is enough to defeat the Portuguese fleet and the thirteen countries after that. You must know that these three countries are Italy, Prussia, and the United States.

It's scary to think about.

Many people in London looked sideways, and even conservatives tried their best to encourage more people to support the British government to send more warships to threaten the combined fleet of the Nordic Alliance.

But it was stopped in the end, because Queen Victoria did not want to be considered to be involved in the Franco-Prussian War. If that is the case, then her eldest daughter, Crown Princess Victoria, who married to Berlin, Prussia, will have a very difficult time in the future.

The United Kingdom has always wanted to suppress the French maritime power. The combined fleet of the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden has made the Queen have a different mind.

Therefore, the British chose to stand still.

This was a pain for Napoleon III of Paris.

On September 28, 1869, General Bazin, who had just taken over the position of French Marshal from Napoleon III, was uneasy in the face of the fierce Prussian attack, and the news that several countries in the Netherlands had sent the news on the northern coast made him extremely anxious.

As a result, he went to the doctor in a panic, without a good command and strategic plan, and under the pressure of Paris, he was even more hesitant, sometimes determined to push the Charon Legion to join McMahon, and sometimes determined to be in Los Angeles. The forest area's last defensive fortress, Metz, was defended.

When he decided on the 1st day of the month to retreat to the Xialong Legion area, he had already lost the opportunity, because Prussia had given him and everyone an absolutely unexpected blow.

It turned out that at the Battle of Maslatour on September 23 and the Battle of Gravelot-Saint Priva on September 25, the coalition forces showed incredible bravery, the French artillery fire was very fierce, Kang Robert and Geben fought against each other. Although the French army successfully repelled the attack of the Prussian army and caused heavy losses to the First Army and the Guards of the Prussian Army, they failed to get through the road to Verdun. The Marshal's Legion of Rein had once again retreated to the fortress of Metz. Trapped in a siege of 160,000 people by the Prussian Army's 1st Army, 2nd Army, 7 Corps and three cavalry divisions.

Marshal McMahon led 120,000 people, 393 artillery pieces, and 76 Mitraeus machine guns to retreat to Chalon. He had planned to lure the enemy deeper and fight the Prussian army under Paris, the regent Queen Eugenie and the French Empire. The new prime minister, Charles Couzan-Monto, Count of Baliqiao, was worried that if he continued to retreat, it would cause unrest and revolution in France. In the end, Eugenie was persuaded and even said to Napoleon III: "Only the enemy of the emperor will agree with Michael Mahon returns to Bahrain."

So on October 3rd, a delegation led by the French speaker Goose came to Napoleon III's base camp, which was halfway back. Emperor Napoleon III should not return to Paris and should order McMahon to go to Metz.

Before Napoleon III could respond, Queen Eugenie, the Regent of Paris, and the cabinet government held a meeting and sent a telegram to Emperor Napoleon III saying: "If Marshal Bazin at the fortress of Metz is not supported, there will be trouble with Paris. In the face of this situation, the capital Paris, under the assessment of everyone, most people do not think it can defend against the Prussian attack, so there are doubts.”

Napoleon III was convinced that Empress Eugene agreed with Ni's telegram, so Napoleon III agreed with the view and agreed with the directive.

In this way, the Charon Legion took a turn back and began to march from Reims east of Paris to Sedan. Napoleon III and McMahon wanted to go from Sedan to the Prussian army in Namur province, and then go south. Verdun goes southeast to help Marshal Bazin of Metz.

But what they didn't know was that this Xialong army had embarked on the road of being annihilated in Sedan, and what they didn't even know was that in the east of Sedan, Bazin's Legion had been targeted, Prussian The army wanted to use the Legion of Lai Yin as bait to pull the Legion of Xia Long into the hook. Originally, Napoleon III and McMahon had already jumped out of the fishing rod distance, but the order of Paris made them return by mistake again. There is no return, I have to say, time is also fate.

McMahon and the 4th of March set off from Reims for Sedan. At the same time, a false information came from Berlin to Napoleon III and the Empress Eugenie of Paris and the French government, saying that in addition to the troops of the II Corps of Prince Karl Frederick who besieged Metz, the two remaining Prussians were The Legion Prussian Army was determined to advance towards Paris, which shocked the entire French high-level. Hurry up, the troops coming out of the front line around France are concentrated in Paris for defense.

This created a situation in which no troops were guarded in a large area between the front line and Paris, which also paved the way for the subsequent defeat of the French army by the Prussian front line.

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