The Courier & Argus
... WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1870. Marshal Bazaine, if the Paris correspondent of a London contemporary is to be credited, has left Metz, cut his way through the Prussian lines, and is now in full retreat with his army upon Montmedy way of Audun and Longuyon. Montmedy is a strongly fortified town close on the Belgian frontier, and about forty miles north-west of Metz, the other towns mentioned being ...