France entered the Franco Prussian War confident and unprepared. Prussia mobilized faster coordinated better and used diplomacy to isolate France while making it look like the aggressor. After early ...
In 1870, France went to war expecting to overpower Prussia, but within weeks its armies were outmaneuvered, its emperor was ...
History is famously full of conflicts celebrated by the victors and forgotten by the losers. But some are ignored on all sides. The Franco-Prussian War is one of the latter, but it is now excavated by ...
The Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 was “not a war of angels,” according to this fine-grained chronicle from historian Chrastil (How to Be Childless). In July 1870, France declared war on Prussia ...