The Franco-Prussian War, occasionally called the Franco-German War and known in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between France and the North German Confederation led by Prussia. Lasting from 19 July 1870 to 28 January 1871, the war was caused primarily by France's determination to reassert its dominant position in continental Europe, a position that had been called into question by Prussia's decisive victory over Austria in 1866. Its immediate cause was the candidacy of a Hohenzollern prince, Leopold, for the vacant Spanish throne, a dispute that the Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck inflamed by publishing an altered version of a diplomatic exchange, the Ems Dispatch.
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LocationFrance and the Rhine Province, Prussia 1 Connections
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Krupp, Organizations Krupp steel breech-loading guns armed the Prussian artillery
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Moltke commanded Prussian and German forces in this war as chief of the Prussian General Staff.
Source Wikipedia: Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
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Additional Source Wikipedia: Franco-Prussian WarLead section (edge: participant Wilhelm I)
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Additional Source Wikipedia: Franco-Prussian WarLead section (edge: resulted-in German Empire)
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was a conflict between France and the North German Confederation led by Prussia
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19 July 1870 to 28 January 1871
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19 July 1870 to 28 January 1871
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France and the Rhine Province, Prussia
Franco-Prussian War: Event Type
The Franco-Prussian War, occasionally known as the Franco-German War, and sometimes referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between France and the North German Confederation led by Prussia.
Participant: Kingdom of Prussia, Lead section (edge: participant Kingdom of Prussia)
In the final days of the war, with German victory all but assured, the German states proclaimed their union as the German Empire under the Prussian king Wilhelm I.
Participant: Wilhelm I of Prussia, Lead section (edge: participant Wilhelm I)
In the final days of the war, with German victory all but assured, the German states proclaimed their union as the German Empire under the Prussian king Wilhelm I.
Participant: Otto von Bismarck, Lead section (edge: participant Bismarck)
In the final days of the war, with German victory all but assured, the German states proclaimed their union as the German Empire under the Prussian king Wilhelm I.
Resulted In: German Empire, Lead section (edge: resulted-in German Empire)
In the final days of the war, with German victory all but assured, the German states proclaimed their union as the German Empire under the Prussian king Wilhelm I.
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The Franco-Prussian War, occasionally known as the Franco-German War, and sometimes referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between F
In Group: Events of Unification and Reform, 1860 to 1874, Lead
The Franco-Prussian War, occasionally known as the Franco-German War, and sometimes referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between France and the North German Confederation led by Prussia.
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He commanded troops in the Middle-East and then in Europe during the Second Schleswig War, Austro-Prussian War, and Franco-Prussian War.
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