Letter
Count Bismarck to Count Bernstorff, August 29, 1870
Count Bismarck to Count Bernstorff.
Clermont, August 29, 1870.
Will you kindly let the following be known to Mr. Washburne, which only now comes to my knowledge.
On the 15th instant General Von Bothmer sent Captain Hanfstangel with a flag of truce to the commandant of the Fortress Mucal. The surrender of the fortress was refused. Before the captain was out of shot’s range he was shot at from the fortress, and was severely wounded. This is the fourth case of breach of international law coming to our knowledge.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.