Franco-Prussian War
1870–1871 military conflict of the Second French Empire versus Prussia and its allies / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) was a war between France and Prussia, which was helped by German allies of Prussia. The war was provoked by Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck, who wanted to unite Germans under Prussian rule by making them fight together against a common enemy. Bismarck irritated French Emperor Napoleon III into declaring war on 19 July 1870. The war ended by a Prussian victory on 10 May 1871.
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Part of the wars of German unification | |||||||||
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Baden Bavaria Württemberg | French Empirea | ||||||||
German Empirec |
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144,642[4]
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~250,000 civilians dead, including 162,000 Germans killed in a smallpox epidemic spread by French POWs[4] | |||||||||
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