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It all started, bizarrely, around 700 miles away - with the Franco-Prussian War. France declared war on Prussia in July 1870 - primarily in an attempt to reassert its dominant position in ...

where she worked with the International Red Cross to provide aid during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. This experience inspired Barton to create the United States branch of the Red Cross.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war and the social unrest that followed, as the French capital was cut off from the rest of the country and food was ...

He didn’t want another war—the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, World War I, World War II. He said, “Enough.” So what did he do? He submitted a plan that was going to deindustrialize ...

This set comes with twenty-four Bavarian Line Infantry plus enough components to make four command miniatures and eight of the Jäger/Schützen for use during the Franco-Prussian War ... against the ...

"He published his authoritative, two-volume The Franco-Prussian War 1870-71 in 2007.” He went on to write a series of further books, covering topics from a range of historical subjects.

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As for France, it harboured hatred toward Germany for decades over Kaiser Wilhelm I’s absorption of Alsace and Lorraine into the new German Empire following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.