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Wawro, Geoffrey: the Franco-Prussian War: the German Conquest of France in 1870-1871.(Book Review)
; Wawro, Geoffrey The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France...produced just that in The Franco-Prussian War. Even if the reader does not...crisis, and the outcome of the Franco-Prussian War seems a foregone conclusion...
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Napoleon and Berlin: The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813
; Napoleon and Berlin: The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813, by Michael V. Leggiere. Napoleon's failure...in German archives and his insight into the socalled Prussian war of liberation. The Prussian use of Landwehr and militia, hitherto...
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Wetzel, David. A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War.(Book Review)
; ...chapter, which deals with the prelude to the French declaration of war, is particularly revealing. Not only does the reader gain further...for the hypotheses of military planning) the inevitability of a war that was otherwise, even at this stage, not at all inevitable...
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Fear of flying: the fiction of war 1886-1916.
; Throughout Europe, the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War generated considerable apprehension about the changing...such predictive fiction. In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, the continued security of the Republic was a major...
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The third French Republic 1871-1914: Alan Farmer shows how the Republic survived the threat from the Right before the First World War. (Talking Points).
; ...in 1870 in the midst of the Franco-Prussian War. Many assumed that the new regime...the military disaster of the Franco-Prussian War. After his surrender at Sedan...who wished to continue the war. Some 400 of the 650 Assembly...
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Verdun: World War I and beyond.
; 1870-71: Germany attacks France in the Franco-Prussian War. Peace treaty cedes Alsace and the...with Germany. August 1914: World War I begins. September 1914: German...April 6, 1917: United States declares war on Germany. Sept. 12, 1918: Six hundred...
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Critical events leading to World War I
; ...these important events: the Franco Prussian war, the Triple Alliance, the...shaped modern Europe was the Franco- Prussian War in 1870. This resulted in...interesting article about the Franco-Prussian war is available from Info Please...
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Landscapes of memory: Susan-Mary Grant argues that the cult of the fallen soldier has its origins at Gettysburg and other battlefield monuments of the American Civil War.(TODAY'S HISTORY)
; ...STATES was the first modern nation to establish national war cemeteries, in the wake of the Civil War. The national cemeteries at Gettysburg and Antietam preceded by almost a decade those established in Germany after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, and the nineteenth-century American ...
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Iraq more than Bush bargained for War has a dynamism of its own that captures those who launch it and drives them where they never wanted to go
; ...a perfect plan for winning a war with France. It was called the...in the Battle of Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The plan was a brilliant...resistance. The lessons of the Franco-Prussian War left little doubt that the French...
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Beginnings of war in Europe; September 18, 1870
; ...during the next 100 years. "The War in Europe" the headline said...page or more of news from the Franco-Prussian conflict that was reconfiguring...neighbours. Predictions about the war were not fulfilled. From the...together with 83,000 troops, civil war had broken out, and ...
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