Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te Rōpū Blue he waahanga o te 12th Army Corps i raro i te whakahau a Barthélémy Louis Joseph Lebrun, koinei te waahanga whakamutunga i tae atu ki Sedan i muri i tana whakamatau whakamutunga ki te hoki ki a General de Wimpffen. I whawhai ki
Bazeilles i te 31 o Akuhata me te 1 o Mahuru 1870. E wha nga wa i tangohia ai te taone me te whakarere, me te 2,655 French me te 5,200 Bavarians i mate, i whakaaweawe i te peita aroha whenua "Les dernières cartouches" ("The Last Cartridges") na Alphonse de Neuville. I ia tau ka whakanui nga hoia moana i te huritau o te pakanga, ka mutu nga huihuinga me te karanga pakanga a te roopu, "Au nom de Dieu, vive la coloniale" ("I runga i te ingoa o te Atua, kia ora a "La Coloniale"") - ko te roopu ko te Atua ano tona tohunga.