Letter

Elihu B. Washburne to Hamilton Fish, September 3, 1870

Mr. E. B. Washburne to Mr. Fish.

[By cable telegram.]

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.
Notes
1. No. 72.
Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr View original source ↗
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.