Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I a ia e hoki ana ki Uropi, e whakautu ana ki te whakaoho tinihanga mai i te Kaiwhakahaere o Bismarck, i pooti te Paremata o Parani ki te whakapuaki i te pakanga ki a Prussia i te 19 o Hurae 1870. I kitea te waeine a Lambert e tata ana ki Sedan i reira te rangatira French Marshal de MacMahon i whakatau ki te arotahi ki nga rauemi hoia hei aukati i te whakaekenga o nga hoia Prussian i roto i Belgium. I tenei wa i mahi a Lambert me te 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment ("2e Régiment d'Infanterie de Marine") i hangaia hei waahanga o te Rōpū Blue e kiia nei i roto i nga waahanga nanakia i te Pakanga nui o Sedan i hopukina, a, i muri mai
i riro i a Bazeilles mai i te I Royal Bavarian Corps i raro i te whakahau a General von der Thann.