Fighting at Epuisay

After the engagement at Epuisay, Chanzy continued his retreat, and on 21 December his troops entered Le Mans. By this time, the Loire Legion, after a series of defeats, had fallen into disrepair. At the beginning of month January 1871, Chief of the Prussian army, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder ordered the Army of Monday which was commanded by Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia to attack Chanzy in the Battle of Le Mans which was a catastrophic defeat for the French army.