>At around 6 am on August 2, Leutnant Albert Mayer and his small cavalry patrol illegally crossed the French border. They did not meet resistance, as the French had moved their troops back 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the border, to avoid provoking the Germans and to show good faith in their attempts to avoid war.
>At 9:50 am Mayer slashed with his sabre at a French sentry, who was on lookout at the entrance to Joncherey. Jules Andre Peugeot and four other soldiers were at their billet eating breakfast at the time. The daughter of the owner of the house came back inside from fetching water and reportedly said "The Prussians! The Prussians are coming!"[1]
>Around 10:00 am, Peugeot and his four comrades went to arrest the Germans. Upon meeting Mayer, he fired three shots at Peugeot. One hit his shoulder and Peugeot fired back as he was falling. Peugeot's comrades opened up on the patrol with pistols. Mayer was shot in the stomach but seconds later was killed by a shot to the head.
>Peugeot stumbled back to the billet house where he died at 10:37 am.[2] Three more Germans were injured and one managed to escape for a few days by hiding in the woods but was eventually captured. One of the German soldiers was never seen again and two escaped to Germany.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirmish_at_Joncherey
This shit is hilarous, especially the part when the girl call them "Prussians"
It just amazes me how people did things at such a younger age back such as jobs or parenting. Jules Andre Peugeot, the first French soldier to die in WW1 was 21 years old. He was a teacher. Crazy that he gets shot in the shoulder with a pistol and dies from that.
>>280308
>crossing the border
What were they planning? The full mobiization of Germany hadn't even started yet.
Albert Mayer got his shit pushed in. Shot in the stomach, then the head.
>>281540
I mean, they were ready to invade and shit, but war wasnt even declared yet
>>280308
Well each German state had a different uniform. The Prussians dressed differently than the Bavarians. They also had different symbols on their Picklehaube. It wasn't til like 1916 where everything started to become standardized among the different states. So those guys might as well been Prussians.
>>281540
Germany never needed to "mobilize"
They were ready since the beginning since they were basically the ones who instigated the war
German mobilization basically happened since 1910
>>281576
I don't think some random civilian girl knew all that
She probably used that term because she heard of the Franco-Prussian War that happened 45 years before
Germany was a very recent country back then (which is why it being destroyed after the war would have been okay imo), people werent used to it yet
>>281596
He was probably sent in reconnaisance for the attack that would be launched the day after....but he went full retard and attacked a village
>>281614
Dumb bitch. Hopefully she was killed in an artillery barrage or got the spanish flu. Though she was probably loved tenderly by a few German regiments as they made their way through the town.
>>281596
Mayer was an over eager Leutnant probably looking for glory and the Pour Le Merit since he assumed the war would be over in Christmas. His aggressiveness got him killed by the French.
>>281539
People used to marry at 10
>"The Prussians! The Prussians are coming!"
>>281586
Germany dindu nuffin
>>284142
>muh heritage
>>281540
Rollin' on some French ballas.
Little did they know that the frogs were packing heat.
