< 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
VIONVILLE, a village of Lorraine, between Metz and the French frontier, celebrated as the scene of the battle of Vionville (Rezonville or Mars la Tour), fought on the 16th of August 1870 between the French and the Germans (see Metz and Franco-German War).
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