Wissembourg is situated by the Lauter River, flanked by the rolling hills of the Vosges Mountains, with Wolfsburg to the north and Gaisberg to the south.
Why are there so many forts? Because this is the territory of the nobility, who act like local emperors here, possessing private armies.
Stockpiling grain and building high walls is a hard truth both in the East and the West, and this is the fundamental reason for the fragmented nature of the West.
On August 2, the Franco-German War officially erupted, and Napoleon III hoped that the Empire's army could traverse the Rhineland and reach Berlin, thereby splitting Northern Germany from Southern Germany.
Napoleon III ordered Marshal Bazan to lead the army across the border to attack Prussia's Saarbrücken, but there was no detailed battle plan, and Bazan believed the attack was futile.
