Forbach, a town of Alsace-Lorraine. Germany, on the railroad near the frontier of Prussia, 11 m. N. W. of Saargemiind; pop. in 1871, 5,428. Near the town are the coal mines of Petite Rosselle, Urselsbach, Schonecke, and Stiring-Wendel, which annually yield about 50,000 tons. After the battle at the heights of Spichern (Aug. 6, 1870), in which Gen. Fros-sard was defeated by several divisions of the armies commanded by Gen. Steinmetz and Prince Frederick Charles, and which is designated by the French as the battle of Forbach, the town was occupied by the German troops, and was afterward annexed to Germany with the rest of Lorraine. Up to that time it had been the capital of a canton in the French department of Moselle.