The French were expected to trounce the Prussians in the Franco-Prussian War (July 1870 through January ... superior breechloading artillery and more mobile tactics. Still, when the opportunity ...

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war and the social unrest ... power gravitated to the National Guard in the city and to radical socialists, and ...

You’ve Got (Balloon) Mail In September 1870, not long after the start of the Franco-Prussian War, the city of Paris was under siege by Prussian soldiers. By the 19th, the German army had blocked ...

Michael Howard's account of the Franco-Prussian War, published in 1961, was so definitive that it seemed to deter others from telling the same story. Wawro has at last taken up the challenge, drawing ...

A French environmental group has found artillery shells dating back to World Wars I and II and even the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 in a lake in eastern France. Water samples from Gerardmer in ...

place a wreath at the unveiling of a plaque in his honour and the Irish ambulance at the Franco Prussian war at Glasnevin Cemetery Picture credit: Damien Eagers / INM Tanaiste, Simon Coveney ...

Most Leaving Cert students will remember the Franco-Prussian war as the one started by a telegram, the Ems Dispatch. But as a commemoration in Dublin next month may remind us, that conflict also ...

This year marks 150 years since the Irish College in Paris was turned upside down by the Franco-Prussian War. It all began when the French Second Empire, under Emperor Napoleon III, declared war ...