Battle of Villepion

White Castle - Spichern - Wörth - Colombey - Strasbourg - Toul - Mars -la-Tour - Gravelotte - Metz - Beaumont - Noisseville - Sedan - Sceaux - Chevilly - Bellevue - Artenay - Châtillon - Châteaudun - Le Bourget - Coulmiers - Amiens - Beaune- la -Rolande - Villepion - Loigny and Poupry - Orléans - Villiers - Beaugency - Hallue - Bapaume - Villersexel - Le Mans - Lisaine - Saint- Quentin - Buzenval - Paris - Belfort

The battle of Villepion (part of Terminiers between Terminiers and Nonneville ) on December 1, 1870 between two divisions of the French XVI. Corps under General Chanzy and the I. Bavarian Corps was a battle of the Franco-German war

After the battle of Beaune- la -Rolande on 28 November 1870, the Corps went in the center of the French Army of the Loire before further and made it a swing eastward toward Pithiviers. It brought together the early afternoon of December 1, 1870 an infantry division and a cavalry division of the French XVI. Corps to parts of the I. Bavarian Corps. The fighting began when place Terminiers and the western districts of this place. Although during the fighting intervened the entire I Corps, was not to hold the position for Bayern and it came to retreat to Villepion.

Fighting continued here until nightfall. Under cover of darkness, Bayern then moved back further and joined with the other units of the army group under Frederick Francis II of Mecklenburg -Schwerin in Goury and Villeprivost ( Loigny la Bataille ). The retreat was covered by an artillery battery under the command of Captain (later Field Marshal ) Leopold of Bavaria, who was wounded here. He received for his services in this battle the Military Order of Max Joseph's Award, the highest Bavarian award for bravery before the enemy.

The counter-attack of the German army group performed the next day the battle of Loigny and Poupry.