they would forfeit at once by allowing the Prussian government to call for, or accept the help of, the Cossack. Let them remember that after their war of independence against the first Napoleon, ...

Discover how Prussia decisively defeated France in the Franco-Prussian War, a short but pivotal conflict that reshaped ...

which described for the first time the horrors of combat with the help of the telegraph which greatly speeded up communications. Twenty years later, the Franco-Prussian War dominated the pages ...

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Beginning in the 18th century ... To facilitate this, he engineered a war with France -- the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A dispute had arisen between France and Germany over the succession ...

In “Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe,” Ms. Chrastil, a historian at Xavier University, deftly uses Dietrich’s diary and other sources to enliven her ...