The Prussians. They swiftly and easily inflicted a most humiliating defeat on France. They paraded their triumphant army down the Champs-Elyssee in Paris, and as the price of the war took the...
The Franco Prussian War was the final war in the creation of the German nation. Prussia was the largest and most powerful of the German-speaking states after Napoleon's downfall. Slowly, over about...
The Prussian chancellor Bismarck put forward a German candidate for the vacant Spanish throne and it provoked Napoleon III to declare war (1870-71). The disagreement between France and Prussia was a...