Battle of Chateauneuf-en-Thimerais

Battle of Chateauneuf-en-Thimerais
	Part of Franco-Prussian War
Date	November 18, 1870
Location	Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais, Eure-et-Loir, France
Result	German Victory
Belligerents
French Republic	North German Confederation Prussia;
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Ludwig von Wittich
Units involved
1 detachment consisting of 8 battalions	22nd Division
Casualties and losses
300 people killed and wounded, 200 people were captured	110 killed

The Battle of Chateauneuf-en-Thimerais^[8] was a battle of the Franco-Prussian War,^[6] which took place on November 18, 1870,^[1] in the commune of Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais in France.^[2]^[9] This was one of a series of victories by a division of the Prussian army along the Loire under the command of Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin before the Garde Mobile's forces fledgling by commander Minister Fiereck, within a week after the Imperial German Army was defeated at the Battle of Coulmiers.^[3] During the Battle of Châteauneuf-en-Thimerais, the 22nd Division of the Kingdom of Prussia – noted as a brave division^[2] – was under the command of General Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Wittich who captured the commune,^[1] taking in his hands hundreds of French prisoners of war.^[10] The failure at this battle forced the French forces to retreat westward.^[5]

^ ^a ^b ^c Wilhelm Rüstow, The war for the Rhine frontier, 1870: Its political and military history, Volume 1, Page 5
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Frederick III, German Emperor, The war diary of the Emperor Frederick III, 1870-1871, Page 196
^ ^a ^b "Wars of the century and the development of military science"
^ "The German-French war of 1870 and its consequences upon future civilization"
^ ^a ^b Julius von Pflugk-Harttung, Sir John Frederick Maurice, The Franco-German war, 1870-71, Page 399
^ ^a ^b "The French Campaign, 1870-1871: Military Description"
^ Streffleurs militärische Zeitschrift, Số phát hành 8-12, Page 205
^ Paul Von Abel, Stammliste Der Königlich Preußischen Armee, Page 142
^ Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig ¬von Wittich, Aus Meinem Tagebuche: 1870 - 71, Page 357
^ "Journals of Field-Marshall Count von Blumenthal for 1866 and 1870-71;"