Der deutsch - franzsische Krieg 1870-71: Gedank-Blatter in Wort Und Battle an Die Ehrentage Der Deutschen Nation

Max Dittrich; Max Henze

Verlag: Dresden & New York: Druck and Verlag von H.G. Munchmeyer, 1875

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Oblong folio. 25 pl., ill. Bound in contemporary quarter red leather. Black cloth boards. Leather label on front board. Gilt lettering on front cover label. Good binding. Soiling and scuffing to cloth boards. Rubbing and wear to extremities. Clean, unmarked pages with extremities. Page extremities slight brittle, with smooth small tears occurring. Tape repair to a few plates. 1 plates, Estermung des Gaisberges, is detached and lacking 1/3 of plate, but present. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. The conflict emerged from tensions caused by German unification. Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck planned to provoke a French attack in order to draw the southern German states Baden, Wurttemberg, Bavaria and Hesse-Darmstadt into an alliance with the Prussian dominated North German Confederation. On 16 July 1870, the French parliament voted to declare war and hostilities began three days later. The German coalition mobilised its troops much more quickly than the French and rapidly invaded northeastern France. The German forces were superior in numbers, had better training and leadership and made more effective use of modern technology, particularly railroads and artillery. A series of swift Prussian and German victories in eastern France, culminating at the Battle of Sedan and the Siege of Metz saw the French army decisively defeated. The war continued, after the Third Republic was declared in Paris 4 September, under the Government of National Defence and Adolphe Thiers. For the next five months the German forces fought and defeated new French armies in northern France. Following the Siege of Paris, the capital fell on 28 January 1871. The German states proclaimed their union as the German Empire under the Prussian king, Wilhelm I, uniting Germany as a nation-state. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1410020003

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Titel: Der deutsch - franzsische Krieg 1870-71: ...

Verlag: Dresden & New York: Druck and Verlag von H.G. Munchmeyer

Erscheinungsdatum: 1875

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good