Spicheren, or SPEICHERN

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 630–631

Spicheren, or SPEICHERN, a village on the frontiers of Prussia and Lorraine, 2 miles S. of Saarbrück. Here on 6th August 1870 was fought a bloody battle between the French and Germans, in which the former were defeated. See FRANCE,

Vol. IV, p. 782; and the work on the battle by Major Henderson (1892).

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