Note 43 — Chapter III
Reading edition
See General Lebrun's Guerre de 1870: Bazailles-Sedan, for an account of his corps of MacMahon's army. In view of the events of the late Boer War, it is worth noting that the Germans never acknowledged the francs-tireurs as soldiers, and forthwith issued an order ending with the words, "They are amenable to martial law and liable to be sentenced to death" (Maurice, Franco-German War, p. 215).