The Battle Hostile_encounter of Mars-La-Tour ( also known as the Battle Hostile_encounter of Vionville or Battle Hostile_encounter of Rezonville ) was fought Hostile_encounter on 16 August 1870 , during the Franco-Prussian War Hostile_encounter , near the village of Mars-La-Tour in northeast France .

This intelligence Perception_active prompted Preventing_or_letting General Prince Friedrich Karl , commander of the Prussian Second Army , to order Arranging at 1900 on 15 August a grossly outnumbered group of 30,000 men of the advanced Cause_to_make_progress III Corps under General Constantin von Alvensleben to cut off Having_or_lacking_access the French line of retreat Escaping at Mars-la-Tour and Vionville .

III Corps routed Motion the French 2nd Army Corps and captured Conquering Vionville at 1130 , blocking Hindering any further escape Escaping attempts to the west .