Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te timatanga o te Pakanga Franco-Prussian, ko Saarbrücken te whaainga tuatahi o te ope whakaeke French i peia atu te rangatira o Prussian me te noho ki Alt-Saarbrücken i te 2 o Akuhata 1870. E ai ki nga korero tuku iho, ko te rangatira French a Napoléon Eugène Louis Bonaparte 14-tau te pakeke i pupuhi i tana pu tuatahi i tenei pakanga, he huihuinga i whakamaharahia e te whakamaharatanga "Lulustein" i Alt-Saarbrücken. I te 4 o Akuhata 1870 i wehe atu nga French i Saarbrücken, i peia atu ki Metz i te
Te Pakanga o Spicheren i te 6 o Akuhata 1870.