Letter
Elihu B. Washburne to Hamilton Fish, September 3, 1870
Mr. E. B. Washburne to Mr. Fish.
[By cable telegram.]
September 3, 1870.
Fish, Washington:
McMahon totally defeated. Capture of Sedan. Defeat of Bazaine before Metz. In Chamber Favre considered present government extinct; proposed military dictator. Unofficial dispatch to foreign minister that Emperor prisoner, another reports him escaped to Belgium.
WASHBURNE.
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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.