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Charge of the 9th Regiment of Cuirassiers at Morsbronn by Édouard Detaille

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Sentier des Turcos

One of the more stirring examples of courage in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 took place outside Woerth, on a hilltop now known as the Path of the Turcos.

The Turcos were Algerian colonial troops, black, Arab, Muslim. The 2nd Algerian Regiment had arrived near a rallying point outside the small town of Woerth. They were a curious attraction to the locals, dark-skinned, strangely attired with baggy pants. Their notation as Turco referred to their former occupier, the Ottoman’s, who controlled Algeria before the French wrested away the region from the decaying empire of the Turks.

After the defeat of an exposed French detachment at Wissembourg, the French survivors retreated and were joined by other forces around Woerth. This position had been noted as a potential defensive line in pre-war studies; now it would need to serve just that very purpose.

The French were severely outnumbered, and their exposed and ineffective deployment risked defeat in detail. The Prussians and Bavarian’s pressed forward after their initial victory looking for their enemy. On the morning of August 6, 1870, battle was joined as Prussian troops made contact

The Turcos anchored the French left flank. Over the afternoon the German and Bavarian troops swarmed up the hillsides. They suffered significant casualties but found flanks and rears of French positions by keeping moving and taking advantage of their numbers and low-level leaders to press their attacks. The French Chassepot rifle was lethal - it was far superior to the German “Needle gun” - but Prussian artillery arrived as the afternoon wore on and further tipped the balance decisively in the Prussian favor. The French commander, McMahon, threw his heavy cavalry into a charge to help extract his main force. While they were able to assist the extraction, they paid an awful cost, ambushed in the village of Morsbronn Les Bains on the right flank.

The Turcos, holding the opposite, left flank, were in severe trouble. Like the tide, Prussian forces assaulted them mercilessly. The Turcos lost 80% of their force and 90% of their officers. They fought bravely, heroically and Prussian forces, frustrated by their losses, the Turco’s stubborn defense and confronted by their racially alien demeanor, showed no mercy. Turco prisoners were simply not taken.

After McMahon called for a general retreat, the paltry few Turcos survivors left the field with their flag intact and staggered back the 50km to Strasbourg, which Prussian-Bavarian forces had bypassed. The cities defenses, much like Metz and Sedan were to experience in the next weeks, were a trap. The story of the Turco’s bravery, their savage casualties and their heroic defense of their adopted flag, was writ large in the tales of the battle.

The Sentier de Turcos is a winding trail around the French left flanks position, where the Turco’s had camped the night before the battle, and where they stood and died that afternoon. One can see the fields of the left flank and, in the distance the spire of the church at Froeschwiller, the French HQ, and which confusingly became a second name of the same battle, can be seen.

It is a poignant, and unfortunately little-known aspect of an equally vaguely-known conflict that fired 75 years of Franco-German fratricide.

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Morsbronn-les-Bains en Alsace 🥨

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Second envoi

Ça y’est, Le second lot de sachet de pain est envoyé à la Boulangerie Kayser située à Morsbronn-les-Bains. Matthieu Kayser, le boulanger, semble réceptif au projet, il me confirme la bonne réception des sachets de pain et me demande en même temps s’il il pourra avoir accès au résultat de “l’étude de marché”. La façon dont il décrit mon enquête m’amène à prendre du recul sur cette dernière. 

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