Kuunganidzwa kwevanhu muna 1870 pakutanga kweHondo yeFrance nePrussian kwakamuisa kumusoro kweVIII (Rhineland) Army Corps, ichiumba chikamu cheFirst Army pasi pavon Steinmetz. Kwakanga kuri kutungamirira kwake kwakatsunga uye kwakasimba uko kwakabetsera zvikurukuru kukunda paSpicheren
musi wa6 Nyamavhuvhu, uye von Goeben akahwina maLaurels chete akawanikwa parutivi rworudyi rwePrussian paGravelotte musi wa18 Nyamavhuvhu. Pasi paManteuffel, VIII Corps yakatora chikamu mumabasa pamusoro peAmiens ne Bapaume, uye musi wa 8 Ndira 1871, Goeben akatsiva mukuru iyeye mukutungamira kweFirst Army.