October.
adjournment of the elections for a National and Constituent Assembly, 'until they can be carried out throughout the whole of the republic.'
2. Plebiscite in the Papal States to decide for or against annexation to the kingdom of Italy: number of voters on the lists, 167,548; number who voted, 135,291; number who voted 'Yes,' 133,681; number who voted 'No,' 1,507; votes annulled, 103.
5. Defeat of a force of 12,000 troops of the French Garde Mobile at St. Quentin.
6. Instalment of the head-quarters of the German armies, under the King of Prussia, at Versailles.
7. Flight from Paris, in a balloon, of M. Léon Gambetta, Minister of the Interior in the Provisional Government of National Defence.
7. Attempt of Marshal Bazaine to break out of Metz, and repulse by the investing forces, after a general battle of ten hours.
9. Decree of King Vittorio Emanuele declaring that Rome and the Papal States shall 'constitute henceforth an integral part of the Kingdom of Italy.'
10. Battle of Artenay, and defeat of the French Army of the Loire by the Bavarian division of the German armies, under General Von der Tann.
11. Instalment of a delegate Government of National Defence at Tours, under M. Léon Gambetta as minister of war.
12. Appointment of General Garibaldi to the command-in-chief of the irregular forces of Eastern France.
12. Capture of Epinal by German troops.
13. Destruction of the Palace of St. Cloud by the guns of the forts of Paris.
15. Opening of the Portuguese Cortes by the King.
16. Surrender of the fortress of Soissons, after a bombardment of four days; 120 guns taken, with 4,800 prisoners.
18. Capture of the town of Vesoul by German troops.
21. Occupation of Chartres and of St. Quentin by German forces.
22. Proposal to conclude an armistice, in order to convoke a French Representative Assembly, addressed by the British Government to the French and German belligerents.
24. Capitulation of the fortress of Schlestadt, with 108 guns, and 2,500 prisoners.
27. Capitulation of the fortress of Metz to the investing forces under Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia. Three marshals of France, fifty generals, and 173,000 rank and file of the Army of the Rhine, including the Imperial Guard, are made prisoners by the Germans, who also capture 400 pieces of cannon, 105 mitrailleuses, and vast ammunitions of war.
28. General Moltke, chief of the staff of the German armies, raised to the
rank of Count by the King of Prussia.