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Austro Prussian German Unification
1,625 wordsEvents in history often become associated with single individuals, such as Hitler and World War II, or Cavour, Mazzini and Garibaldi with Italian unification. The same seems to be true for German unification, with which Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck is generally associated. It is often argued that it was due to Bismarck's foresighted and planed actions that Germany became unified. Although Bismarck's action undoubtedly played a most fundamental role in German unification, it would give...
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Otto Von Bismarck War With France
906 wordsThe nation did not recognize her savior, would, in fact, willingly have crucified him or burned him alive. He had saved the country as he once saved a groom from drowning, by gripping it by the throat. When he had won and the work was practically over, then they cheered and lauded him to the skies. But what was the value of such belated converts? From the vast majority of the nation there never came a spark of understanding for the statesman who gave them what they wanted but had been incapable ...
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Franco Prussian War War With France
1,817 wordsThe Franco-Prussian War, was a war in 1870 - 1871, which the French lost to the German states while they were under the leadership of Prussia. The underlying causes of the conflict were the Prussian statesman Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck's desire to unify Germany under Prussian control and, to eliminate French influence over Germany. On the other hand, Napoleon III, emperor of France from 1852 to 1870, wanted to regain the prestige he had lost, both at home and abroad, as a result of ...
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Franco Prussian War South German States
1,741 words... sian's were firing at them from the ground, the sailors would shout, Death to the invaders! or Vive la France! When the sharpshooters were unable to bring down these balloons, the Prussians tried unsuccessfully to develop weapons to bring them down. They developed a special anti-balloon field gun. The French Minister of the Interior, Leon Gambetta and his chief assistant, Charles Louis de Sales de Freycinet, left by balloon to go to Tours to take charge of the provisional government. The cro...
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European Power And The Seven Weeks War
850 wordsThe Seven Weeks War, also known as the Austro-Prussian war, was a brief struggle between two rising European powers. On June 14, 1866 Austria and Prussia engaged each other in battle. Prussia received support from only a few small north German states in the country of Italy. Austria's allies Saxony, Hanover, the Hesse's, Bavaria, Baden, and Wurttenberg. This war was deliberately provoked by Otto von Bismark who was the prime minister of Prussia under King William I. King William ordered Bismark ...
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Sixteenth Century North German
1,635 wordsEarly History of the Pipe Organ The? king of instruments? has a long history, one which can arguably be traced to the concept of a collection of? fixed-pitched pipes blown by a single player (such as the panpipes)? (Randel 583). The first examples of pipe organs with the basic features of today can be traced to the third century B. C. E. in the Greco-Roman arena; it is said to have been invented by Ktesibios of Alexander and contained? a mechanism to supply air under pressure, a wind-chest to st...
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Universal Male Suffrage South German States
2,841 wordsNationalism: A General Survey In order to understand the present we must know its past such is the task of history. The crisis in the republics of former Yugoslavia, for example, is a bloody proof for the validity of this statement: a region infested with century old tensions that periodically re-erupts in civil wars. Only with a detailed knowledge of the country s tumultuous past can we fully understand the causes and intensity of the crisis. Symmetrically, when we look at a political map of Eu...
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