3-039-130 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Commune in Paris: Communists at the Porte Maillot going out to fight the troops from Versailles, 1871. Franco-Prussian War. 'The body of troops from Versailles, sent by General Vinoy to act against the insurgents, was not above 3000 strong. It consisted of a battalion of infantry of the Marine, a battalion of the 112th, and one of the 114th of the Line; half a battalion of Breton sailors, who in the French army are drilled to act as infantry when required; a battery of brass 9-pounders, half a squadron of Chasseurs d'Afrique, and the same number of mounted gendarmes'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.