Anopfuurira kufarikanya nyasha dzamambo uye anokwidziridzwa kusvika pachinzvimbo chagenerala wechiuto (1869), asi kuvava kwokuodzwa mwoyo kwake muna 1866 hakuna kumbomusiya. Akanga ane vhudzi rakachenuruka pamakore makumi mana namaviri, uye utano hwake hwakanga hwave husina kunaka. Muna 1869 von der Tann-Rathsamhausen, sezvaakanga ava kunzi, akagadzwa kuva mutungamiriri weI. Bavarian Corps. Akatungamirira boka iri munguva yeHondo yeFrench-Prussian ya1870/71, uye yaiva muhondo iyi kuti akawana mukurumbira wake somumwe wevarwi veGermany vakakurumbira. Ushingi hwake hwakanga huchioneka muhondo dzeWörth neSedan. Aendeswa mumatsutso kumirairo yakazvimiririra paLoire, akaitisa mashandiro kurwisa d'Aurelle de Paladines, pakutanga nekubudirira kwakatanhamara, uye akamanikidza kuzvipira kweOrléans. Iye akanga, zvisinei, paCoulmiers
kuti abve pamberi pesimba reFrance rakakura; asi akasimbiswa, akarwa hondo dzinoverengeka dzakabudirira pasi peGreat Duke weMecklenburg-Schwerin padyo neOrléans.