Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Apo Hondo yeFrench-Prussian yakatanga muna July 1870, Bataille akanga ari mutungamiriri we 2nd Division ye "général de division" Charles Auguste Frossard's II Army Corps. Chikamu chake chakatungamira mauto aFrossard muhondo yekutanga yehondo, Hondo yeSaarbrücken, musi wa2 Nyamavhuvhu 1870. Pa
Muhondo yeSpicheren musi wa6 Nyamavhuvhu, Frossard akaisa divi raBataille mu reserve, asi Bataille akaita kuti divi iri riite pasina mirairo kubva kuna Frossard, achiripaza kuita zvikamu zviviri kutsigira mutsara weFrance kurwisa kurwisa kweGerman uye kusimbisa mutsara weFrance, kunyangwe achiramba Frossard chero mukana wekufamba nekuita rake rekuchengetedza. Achifunga kuti kutyisidzira kuruboshwe rweFrance kwaive kuri kukura, Bataille pachake akazvipira kuronga hurumende kuti isimbise kuruboshwe, uye pakupera kwezuva aifanira kubvisa zvikamu zvechikamu chake kurudyi rweFrance kutenderedza Stiring-Wendel pasi pemamiriro ezvinhu akaoma sezvo uto reFrance rakadzokera kumashure kubva kunhandare yehondo.