Cavalry bit for the 8th cuirassiers regiment. In two-pronged iron, brass boss motifs on the number 8 and on the cuirass. A.B.E. (minor dents). Second Empire period. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, at the Battle of Frœschwiller, he distinguished himself by his desperate charges within General Michel's 3rd brigade, cavalry division of the 1st army corps, on the enemy entrenched in the village of Morsbronn.