Franco-Prussian War

Prussia, led by Otto von Bismarck, was anxious to go to war with France in an effort to unify Germany. The Franco-Prussian war was used to unite the nation states of Germany against a common enemy and show their strength as a unified group.

It is easy to forget (and some history books don't mention it), that the Germany wasn't even a country until 1871, less than half a century before WWI. The beginnings of this state were in the conquests of Napoleon. The northern states had been occupied by France under Napoleon, until Prussia (the most powerful German state) Austria (East of what is now Germany), Russia, and Britain united to defeat the French. This made Prussia even more powerful, and created resentment between the Germans and French, as well as giving the northern German states a taste of what it was like to be part of a larger nation, and simultaneously sparking their sense of Nationalism. Germany as we know it was built by a thoroughly ruthless and Machiavellian man named Otto von Bismarck. He wanted to create a united Germany out of what were at the time 38 separate states. Creating this united state was a challenge for several reasons. The other European powers didn't want to see another empire rising in their midst so soon after having had to put down the French. The various German states were independent and wanted to stay that way. He had to create his empire without building lasting resentments between the states he was seeking to unite and without alarming the other European powers. He did this basically by building a coalition, then provoking a state that was outside that coalition to attack it. This gave him an excuse to enlarge his military, increased the cohesiveness of the coalition he already had, and added another state to his coalition. He repeated this several times until the German states were under his control. Next he had to take on Austria, which at that time was officially the top dog in Germany. He needed to ensure the neutality of France. In order to do this, he offered to turn a blind eye if France annexed a part of southern Belgium, but didn't sign the offer. Then he cleverly provoked Austria to attack. Fours years later he opposed the French claim to the Spanish crown. When the French got it they demanded that the Germans never again try to claim it. In response, he published a telegramme insulting France. This ticked off the French people enough to declare war in 1870. The Austrians weren't all that upset with him because he'd worked hard to rebuild good relations with them, so they stayed out of it, and no one else really saw a reason to join with the French. As a result the French lost to a united Germany. Bismarck used this war to unite Germany, and build German pride and power by humiliating the French and forcing them to give Germany the territories of Alsace and Loraine, and demanding five years of reparations. It should be noted that at this time it was traditional for the winning power to demand reparations of the loser in European conflicts. In fact, the relatively light reparations Germany demanded of Austria were seen as a gesture of good will by the Austrians, and were part of Bismarck's diplomatic efforts to repair Germany's relationship with Austria after their war. However, the net effect was to build a lasting resentment against Germany in the hearts of the French. As a result, Bismarck was able to unite all the German states except Austria into a German Empire under Kaiser William I in 1871. Bismarck was Chancellor. By 1880 at the latest Germany was the military and economic 'top dog' in Continental Europe. The other European powers were uneasy about Germany's new power. After its war on France and its subsequent unification Germany had the strongest military of the continental powers, and was an industrial powerhouse. Its ultimate power was actually somewhat limited because unlike Britain and France, Germany was not a colonial power, so it did not have the massive resources at its disposal the other powers had in their colonies. However, by not competing with the other powers for colonial assets, Bismarck was able avoid conflict. However, eventually William I was replaced by a new Kaiser, William II, who was less willing to allow Bismarck to be the power behind his throne and in 1890 Bismarck resigned.

2 bordering mining regions, Alsace and Lorraine.

It was the comment of US General Philip Sheridan, who witnessed to the battle of Sedan, in seeing the desperate charges of the French cavalry divisions, attempting in vain to break through the German lines.

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Of course there were wars in the 1600's!! The Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648) for example. Your question is a bit too general, however, and you might want to broaden it.

She never existed. However, an actress named Veronique did play a part in a movie titled "La Commune" which takes place during the Franco-Prussian War.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257497/

The Franco-Prussian War was from 1870-1871, so nobody would be using a weapon from 1766 in the Franco-Prussian War. Without better information (including which side used the weapon - French or Germans), it would be impossible to speculate.

If the term "1766" is a specific model number, I am aware of no gun that has that number.

First Franco-Dahomean War happened on 1890-02-21.

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As the result of France's loss in the Franco-Prussian War, the northeastern French Province of Alsace Lorraine (called Elsass-Lohringen in German) was ceded to Greater Germany.

1 -The annexation of the Danish Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg.

2 -The Prussian supremacy in Germany and the elimination of Austrian influence over the German States.

3 - The downsizing of France as the only European power able to contrast the setting up of a united German Nation, under Prussian leadership, taking advantage from the military and political decline of the Second Empire.

This goal could have achieved only by provoking France to declare war on the German Confederation, the only means which would made important German States, like Bavaria and Baden-

Württenberg somewhat "lukewarm" towards a Prussian egenomy, to take side with the "assailed fellow countrymen".

The Napoleonic Wars ended in 1815 with a peace settlement orchestrated by the brilliant Austrian foreign minister, Metternich. The peace settlement was known as "the Concert of Vienna" and kept the peace in Europe for the next 99 years with the exception of the Franco-Prussian War. The Concert of Vienna adjusted affairs in Europe so that each nation felt its national interests were protected, and, most importantly, maintained a delicate balance of power between European nations.

However, in 1815 Germany did not exist. There were dozens of "Germanic States", some very small, a few fairly large, where Germany is today. When Germany was created by uniting all these "Germanic States" into one single nation under the plans of the Prussian minister Bismarck, this was the appearance of a new, large nation in central Europe, which was not planned for nor accommodated under the Vienna peace plan of fifty years before. The very existence of a united Germany upset the delicate balance of power of the Concert of Vienna which had kept the peace for those fifty years. Alarmed at the appearance of a powerful new united neighbor on her border, France immediately picked a fight with the newly united Germany, started a war, and promptly lost it. This proved that not only was there a united Germany here to stay, but that Germany was a powerful nation capable of easily handling France, which had been considered one of the world's great powers. This made the arrangements of the Concert of Vienna out of date, and nations began making alliances with one another, to increase their feelings of security about what might happen if a large war came. It was these alliances which caused many European nations to be pulled into war in 1914, when the nations they were allied with went to war.

After the Franco-Prussian war in 1871 Prussia was able to unite Germany, which existed before that out of many small states, into one major empire .

Alsace and Lorraine were under German control from 1871-1919 as the provinces of Elsaß-Lothringen. These two territories had been French border territories for some time and the local language was Alsatian, which is a dialect of German with many French loanwords. At that time French was a secondary language for most people in Alsace-Lorraine, so to call them "French-speaking" is somewhat disingenuous.

Order of Merit of the Prussian Crown was created on 1901-01-18.

The Prussian forces at the Battle of Froeschwiller (aka "Worth" or "Reichshoffen") were commanded by Crown Prince Frederick, aided by his chief staff General Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal.

Type your answer here... No. The 2003 invasion of Iraq was done without international (UN) approval), using fabricated reasons for justification (there were no WMD) and was used for American corporate profit. These facts render "Operation Iraqi Freedom" an aggressive conquest. It came at a terrible civilian cost and turned the world's opinion against America. The ongoing failure to bring peace and democracy (as was promised) undermines the USA's credibility around the world, and alienates us from our former allies. While the war profited companies and individuals close to the Bush administration, it has brought death to inocent people, and weakness to a once glorious America. The war is unprovoked, unjust and unwinnable.

The winged purssian was Otto Lilienthal

Killed and ate the zoo animals

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Baron Friedrich von Steuben (i think that's how you spell it). He trained the American troops.

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The war of 1870 was the Franco-Prussian war.

The Franco-Prussian war resulted in the following:

1. The defeat and fall of the French Empire of Napoleon the Third and the advent of the Second French Republic.

2. The proclamation of the German Empire under the king of Prussia;

3. The annexation of Alsace and Lorraine, after the final defeat of the French Republican Army

4. The stipulation of the Treaty of Peace.