Seat of Fighting.
Longwy is a French town just south of the German frontier and close to the border of the independent Ducby of Luxembourg. Mezieros and Verdun lie not far from tbe German frontier, being about equi-distant from Longwy. Mezieree being the more northerly. In 1792 Longwy was invested on August 20th by the Prussians, bombarded oil the next day and on the 2-lth capitulated. On the 30th Verdun was invested and taken and the road l<> Paris was opened. This advance was stopped by the decisive French victory at Valmy.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 91, 7 August 1914, Page 6
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92Seat of Fighting. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 91, 7 August 1914, Page 6
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