The Battle of Wörth, also known as the Battle of Reichshoffen or as the Battle of Frœschwiller, refers to the second battle of Wörth, which took place on 6 August 1870 in the opening stages of the Franco-Prussian War (the first Battle of Wörth occurred on 23 December 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars). In the second battle, troops from Germany commanded by Crown Prince Frederick William and directed by his chief of staff, General Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, defeated the French under Marshal MacMahon near the village of Wœrth in Alsace, on the Sauer River, 6.2 mi north of Haguenau. The victorious Germans suffered a loss of 10,556 killed, wounded, and captured while the French lost 15,096 men. The relics listed below were found in the Froeschwiller Woods.

This Prussian muzzle cover is partially bent but is marked on the side with “10 C” over “J. R. 50” for Jager Regiment 50. A check of the Prussian order of battle for Worth does show the 3rd Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment, No. 50 was present.

This item was dug by a Carlisle, Pennsylvania resident while serving with the US Army in Germany in the 1990’s. [AD][PH:L]

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