Excerpt from Handbook for North Germany From the Baltic to the Black Forest, and the Rhine From Holland to Basle: Including the Hartz, Thuringerwald, Saxon Switzerland, Rugen, the Giant Mountains, Taubus, Odenwald, Eelsas, and Lothringen The descriptions of the frontier battle-fields of the war of 1870-71 have been written from personal examination, and it is hoped that the brief statements of the military Operations will be sufficient to enable the traveller to proceed at once to the particular spots to which peculiar interest attaches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.