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...Blitzkrieg conquest of the Lowlands and France began before dawn May 10. Within 24 hours it pierced the strongly fortified Belgian defense line at Eben Emael, north of Liege. Crashing through the Belgian Ardennes, it encountered and crushed treacherous or woefully incompetent French Ninth Army under General Corap at Sedan on the Meuse...
...capture of Napoleon III at Sedan on Sept. 2,1870, ended the Second Empire, but not the Franco-Prussian War. Invested by the German Armies, cut off from the rest of France, without defenders at the front, Paris organized its own resistance under fiery, one-eyed Interior Minister Leon Gambetta. The city held out for four desperate months. Then Bismarck laid down his harsh peace terms to the provisional Government of Adolphe Thiers at Versailles. Radical Parisians, still armed for the siege and fearing a restoration of the monarchy, set up a revolutionary Commune on March 18, 1871. The city...
...When the Nazis broke through at Sedan, defense-minded Generalissimo Gamelin was hurriedly replaced by attack-minded...
...World War I, wrote one of the brilliant histories of that struggle, The World Crisis. His last week's speech to Parliament is a vivid and eloquent chapter in the history to be written of World War II. It follows: From the moment when the defenses at Sedan on the Meuse were broken at the end of the second week in May only a rapid retreat to Amiens and the south could have saved the British-French Armies who had entered Belgium at the appeal of the Belgian King...
Contrary to civilian and journalistic impressions, the German technique of achieving a break-through such as that at Sedan fortnight ago is not by means of armored (Panzer) divisions, of which the Germans have about twelve (the French have three; the British two). Break-through is made by engineers and infantry, preceded by air-bombing and accompanied by heavy (over 20 tons) tanks detailed to the infantry...