Vionville, a small village of Lorraine (pop. 450), 20 miles W. of Metz, famous for the great cavalry battle (sometimes named from the adjoining village of Mars-la-Tour) of 16th August 1870, when the French were driven back on Metz.
Vionville
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 488
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