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Franco-Prussian War, the Glossary

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.^[1]

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Abel Douay

Charles Abel Douay (2 March 1809 – 4 August 1870) was a general in the French army during the reign of the Emperor Napoleon III.

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Adalbert von Bredow

Friedrich William Adalbert von Bredow (24 May 1814 – 3 March 1890) was a German cavalry officer.

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Adolphe Niel

Adolphe Niel (4 October 180213 August 1869) was a French Army general and statesman.

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Adolphe Thiers

Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (15 April 17973 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian.

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Agénor de Gramont, 10th Duke of Gramont

Agénor de Gramont, 10th Duke of Gramont (Antoine Alfred Agénor; 14 August 181917 January 1880) was a French diplomat and statesman who also had the title Prince of Bidache.

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Albrecht von Roon

Albrecht Theodor Emil Graf von Roon (30 April 1803 – 23 February 1879) was a Prussian soldier and statesman.

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Alphonse de Neuville

Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (31 May 183518 May 1885) was a French academic painter who studied under Eugène Delacroix.

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Alsace

Alsace (Low Alemannic German/Alsatian: Elsàss ˈɛlsɑs; German: Elsass (German spelling before 1996: Elsaß.) ˈɛlzas ⓘ; Latin: Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland.

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Alsace–Lorraine

Alsace–Lorraine (German: Elsaß–Lothringen), officially the Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine (Reichsland Elsaß–Lothringen), was a former territory of the German Empire, located in modern day France.

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Amiens

Amiens (English: or;; Anmien, Anmiens or Anmyin) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille.

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Amphibious warfare

Amphibious warfare is a type of offensive military operation that today uses naval ships to project ground and air power onto a hostile or potentially hostile shore at a designated landing beach.

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Anglo-German naval arms race

The arms race between Great Britain and Germany that occurred from the last decade of the nineteenth century until the advent of World War I in 1914 was one of the intertwined causes of that conflict.

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Antoine-Henri Jomini

Antoine-Henri Jomini (6 March 177922 March 1869) was a Swiss military officer who served as a general in French and later in Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war.

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Armée de l'Est

The Armée de l'Est (Army of the East; German - Ostarmee; also Second Loire Army; nicknamed the 'Bourbaki army' after its first commander General Charles Denis Sauter Bourbaki) was a French army which took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71.

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Armée de la Loire

The Armée de la Loire was a French army of the Franco-Prussian War.

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Army of Châlons

The Army of Châlons (Armée de Châlons) was a French military formation that fought during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.

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Army of the North (France)

The Army of the North or Armée du Nord is a name given to several historical units of the French Army.

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Army of the Vosges

The Army of the Vosges (Armée des Vosges) was a volunteer force placed under the command of Giuseppe Garibaldi, formed in order to ensure the defense of the road to Lyon from the Prussian Army during the Franco-Prussian war.

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Artillery battery

In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems.

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Attaque à outrance

Attaque à outrance (Attack to excess) was the expression of a military philosophy common to many armies in the period before and during the earlier parts of World War I. This philosophy was a response to the increasing weight of defensive firepower that accrued to armies in the nineteenth century, as a result of several technological innovations, notably breech-loading rifled guns, machine guns, and light field artillery firing high-explosive shells.

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August von Werder

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich August Leopold Graf von Werder (12 September 1808 – 12 September 1887) was a Prussian general.

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Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot

Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot (24 February 1817 – 16 August 1882) was a French general.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.

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Austro-Prussian War

The Austro-Prussian War, also by many variant names such as Seven Weeks' War, German Civil War, Brothers War or Fraternal War, known in Germany as Deutscher Krieg ("German War"), Deutscher Bruderkrieg ("German war of brothers") and by a variety of other names, was fought in 1866 between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia, with each also being aided by various allies within the German Confederation. Franco-Prussian War and Austro-Prussian War are wars involving Baden, wars involving Bavaria, wars involving Saxony and wars involving Württemberg.

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Aviso

An aviso was originally a kind of dispatch boat or "advice boat", carrying orders before the development of effective remote communication.

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Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys

Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys (19 November 1805 – 1 March 1881) was a French diplomat.

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Émile Ollivier

Olivier Émile Ollivier (2 July 182520 August 1913) was a French statesman.

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.

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Barthélémy Louis Joseph Lebrun

Barthélémy Louis Joseph Lebrun (22 October 1809, Landrecies - 6 October 1889, Paris) was a French Army officer of the Second French Empire.

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Basel

Basel, also known as Basle,Bâle; Basilea; Basileia; other Basilea.

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Battle of Amiens (1870)

The Battle of Amiens, also known as the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, was fought on 27 November 1870 between French and Prussian forces during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871). Franco-Prussian War and Battle of Amiens (1870) are 1870 in France.

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Battle of Bapaume (1871)

The Battle of Bapaume took place during the Franco-Prussian War, brought about by French attempts to relieve the besieged city of Péronne, Somme. Franco-Prussian War and Battle of Bapaume (1871) are 1871 in France.

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Battle of Cannae

The Battle of Cannae was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy.

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Battle of Coulmiers

The Battle of Coulmiers was fought on 9 November 1870 between French and Bavarian forces during the Franco-Prussian War, ending in French victory. Franco-Prussian War and Battle of Coulmiers are 1870 in France and conflicts in 1870.

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Battle of Gravelotte

The Battle of Gravelotte (or Battle of Gravelotte–St. Privat) on 18 August 1870 was the largest battle of the Franco-Prussian War. Franco-Prussian War and battle of Gravelotte are 1870 in France and conflicts in 1870.

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Battle of Havana (1870)

The Battle of Havana on 9 November 1870 was an indecisive single ship action between the German gunboat and the French aviso ''Bouvet'' off the coast of Havana, Cuba during the Franco-Prussian War. Franco-Prussian War and Battle of Havana (1870) are 1870 in Cuba and conflicts in 1870.

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Battle of Königgrätz

The Battle of Königgrätz (or Sadowa) was the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War in which the Kingdom of Prussia defeated the Austrian Empire.

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Battle of Le Mans

The Battle of Le Mans was a German victory during the Franco-Prussian War that ended French resistance in western France. Franco-Prussian War and Battle of Le Mans are 1871 in France.

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Battle of Mars-la-Tour

The Battle of Mars-la-Tour (also known as the Battle of Vionville or Battle of Rezonville) was fought on 16 August 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, near the village of Mars-La-Tour in northeast France. Franco-Prussian War and Battle of Mars-la-Tour are 1870 in France.

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Battle of Sedan

The Battle of Sedan was fought during the Franco-Prussian War from 1 to 2 September 1870. Franco-Prussian War and Battle of Sedan are 1870 in France and conflicts in 1870.

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Battle of Spicheren

The Battle of Spicheren, also known as the Battle of Forbach, was a battle during the Franco-Prussian War. Franco-Prussian War and battle of Spicheren are 1870 in France.

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Battle of St. Quentin (1871)

The Battle of St. Franco-Prussian War and Battle of St. Quentin (1871) are 1871 in France.

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Battle of the Lisaine

The Battle of the Lisaine, also known as the Battle of Héricourt, was fought from 15 January to 17 January 1871 between German and French forces. Franco-Prussian War and Battle of the Lisaine are 1871 in France.

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Battle of Wörth

The Battle of Wörth, also known as the Battle of Reichshoffen or as the Battle of Frœschwiller, refers to the second battle of Wörth, which took place on 6 August 1870 in the opening stages of the Franco-Prussian War (the first Battle of Wörth occurred on 23 December 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars). Franco-Prussian War and battle of Wörth are 1870 in France and conflicts in 1870.

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Bazeilles

Bazeilles is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of northern France.

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Belfort

Belfort (archaic Beffert, Beffort) is a city in northeastern France, situated approximately from the Swiss border.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Belgium and the Franco-Prussian War

Belgium was not a belligerent in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), as the country was neutral throughout the war, but was heavily influenced by the social and political effects of the conflict.

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Blockade

A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force.

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Bohemia

Bohemia (Čechy; Böhmen; Čěska; Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.

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Breechloader

A breechloader is a firearm in which the user loads the ammunition from the breech end of the barrel (i.e., from the rearward, open end of the gun's barrel), as opposed to a muzzleloader, in which the user loads the ammunition from the (muzzle) end of the barrel.

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British ambulances in the Franco-Prussian War

Though the United Kingdom remained neutral during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, it provided ambulances and other medical assistance to both combatants and the civilians affected by the war.

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C64 (field gun)

The Krupp C64 (sometimes C/64) steel, breech loaded field gun was one of the main artillery pieces of the Prussians in the 1870–1871 war with France.

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Canon de 75 modèle 1897

The French 75 mm field gun is a quick-firing field artillery piece adopted in March 1898.

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Caprera

Caprera is an island in the Maddalena archipelago off the coast of Sardinia, Italy.

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Charge (warfare)

A charge is an offensive maneuver in battle in which combatants advance towards their enemy at their best speed in an attempt to engage in a decisive close combat.

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Charles Auguste Frossard

Charles Auguste Frossard (26 April 1807 – 25 August 1875) was a French general.

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Charles-Denis Bourbaki

Charles Denis Sauter Bourbaki (22 April 1816, Pau – 22 September 1897, Bayonne) was a French general.

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Chassepot

The Chassepot (pronounced SHAS-poh), officially known as Fusil modèle 1866, was a bolt-action military breechloading rifle.

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Châlons-en-Champagne

Châlons-en-Champagne is a city in the Grand Est region of France.

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Château de Ferrières

Château de Ferrières is a French château built between 1855 and 1859 for Baron James de Rothschild in the Goût Rothschild style located in central France, some 26 km east of Paris.

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Classification yard

A classification yard (American English, as well as the Canadian National Railway), marshalling yard (British, Hong Kong, Indian, and Australian English, as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a railway yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railway cars onto one of several tracks.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.

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Coastal artillery

Coastal artillery is the branch of the armed forces concerned with operating anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications.

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Command and control

Command and control (abbr. C2) is a "set of organizational and technical attributes and processes...

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Communards

The Communards were members and supporters of the short-lived 1871 Paris Commune formed in the wake of the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. Franco-Prussian War and Communards are 1871 in France.

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Congress of Vienna

The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Conscription

Conscription is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service.

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Constantin von Alvensleben

Reimar Constantin von Alvensleben (26 August 1809 – 28 March 1892) was a Prussian (and later Imperial German) general.

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Corps législatif

The italics was a part of the French legislature during the French Revolution and beyond.

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Corvette

A corvette is a small warship.

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Crimean War

The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont. Franco-Prussian War and Crimean War are wars involving France.

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Crimes de la commune

Crimes de la Commune is a series of photomontages produced by French photographer Ernest-Charles Appert at the end of the Paris Commune.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Cult of the offensive

The cult of the offensive refers to a strategic military dilemma in which leaders believe that offensive advantages are so great that a defending force would have no hope of repelling the attack and therefore choose to attack.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Dijon

Dijon is a city that serves as the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

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Dreyse needle gun

The Dreyse needle-gun was a 19th-century military breech-loading rifle, as well as the first breech-loading rifle to use a bolt action to open and close the chamber.

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Edmond Le Bœuf

Edmond Leboeuf (5 December 1809 – 7 June 1888) was a marshal of France.

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Eduard von Fransecky

Eduard Friedrich Karl von Fransecky (16 November 1807 – 22 May 1890) was Prussian general who served in the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War.

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Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel

Edwin Karl Rochus Freiherr von Manteuffel (24 February 180917 June 1885) was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall noted for his victories in the Franco-Prussian War, and the first Imperial Lieutenant (Reichsstatthalter) of Alsace–Lorraine from 1879 until his death.

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Electoral Palatinate

The Electoral Palatinate (Kurpfalz) or the Palatinate (Pfalz), officially the Electorate of the Palatinate (Kurfürstentum Pfalz), was a constituent state of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Emir Abdelkader

Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din (6 September 1808 – 26 May 1883; عبد القادر ابن محي الدين), known as the Emir Abdelkader or Abd al-Qadir al-Hassani al-Jaza'iri, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion of Algiers in the early 19th century.

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Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen

Baron Emmanuel Felix de Wimpffen (13 September 181126 February 1884) was a French soldier and general.

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Ems Dispatch

The Ems Dispatch (Dépêche d'Ems, Emser Depesche), sometimes called the Ems Telegram, was published on 13 July 1870; it incited the Second French Empire to declare war on the Kingdom of Prussia on 19 July 1870, starting the Franco-Prussian War. Franco-Prussian War and Ems Dispatch are 1870 in France.

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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is the company known for publishing the Encyclopædia Britannica, the world's oldest continuously published encyclopaedia.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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Eugénie de Montijo

Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marquise of Ardales (5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie de Montijo, was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the Emperor was overthrown on 4 September 1870.

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Flag of France

The national flag of France (drapeau français) is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue (hoist side), white, and red.

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Floing, Ardennes

Floing is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Forbach

Forbach (Fuerboch) is a commune in the French department of Moselle, northeastern French region of Grand Est.

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Foreign relations of Germany

The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) is a Central European country and member of the European Union, G4, G7, the G20, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

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François Achille Bazaine

François Achille Bazaine (13 February 181123 September 1888) was an officer of the French army.

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François Certain de Canrobert

François Marcellin Certain de Canrobert (born François Certain Canrobert; 27 June 1809 – 28 January 1895) was a French Marshal.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Franco-Russian Alliance

The Franco-Russian Alliance (Alliance Franco-Russe, translit), also known as the Dual Entente or Russo-French Rapprochement (Rapprochement Franco-Russe, Русско-Французское Сближение; Russko-Frantsuzskoye Sblizheniye), was an alliance formed by the agreements of 1891–94; it lasted until 1917.

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Francs-tireurs

Francs-tireurs (French for "free shooters") were irregular military formations deployed by France during the early stages of the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71).

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Frœschwiller

Frœschwiller (Freschwiller) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

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Frederick III, German Emperor

Frederick III (Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl; 18 October 183115 June 1888) was German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days between March and June 1888, during the Year of the Three Emperors.

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French Algeria

French Algeria (Alger until 1839, then Algérie afterwards; unofficially Algérie française, الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of Algerian history when the country was a colony and later an integral part of France.

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French aviso Bouvet (1865)

Bouvet was a sail and steam aviso of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.

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French conquest of Algeria

The French conquest of Algeria took place between 1830 and 1903. Franco-Prussian War and French conquest of Algeria are wars involving France.

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French corvette Dupleix

Dupleix was a wooden-hulled screw corvette of the built for the French Navy.

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French indemnity

The French indemnity was the indemnity the French Third Republic paid to the German Empire after the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871.

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French Navy

The French Navy (lit), informally La Royale, is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of France.

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French Third Republic

The French Third Republic (Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government.

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French–German enmity

French–German (Franco-German) enmity (Rivalité franco-allemande, Deutsch–französische Erbfeindschaft) was the idea of unavoidably hostile relations and mutual revanchism between Germans (including Austrians) and French people that arose in the 16th century and became popular with the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871.

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Garde Mobile

The Garde mobile ("Mobile Guard"; also called Garde nationale mobile though it had nothing to do with the Garde nationale) was intended to be a reserve force of all able-bodied men previously not drafted (such as single men and childless widowers), trained yearly, during the time of Napoleon III.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève)Genf; Ginevra; Genevra.

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Georges Darboy

Georges Darboy (16 January 181324 May 1871) was a French Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Nancy then Archbishop of Paris.

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Georges Ernest Boulanger

Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger (29 April 1837 – 30 September 1891), nicknamed Général Revanche ("General Revenge"), was a French general and politician.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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German General Staff

The German General Staff, originally the Prussian General Staff and officially the Great General Staff (Großer Generalstab), was a full-time body at the head of the Prussian Army and later, the German Army, responsible for the continuous study of all aspects of war, and for drawing up and reviewing plans for mobilization or campaign.

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German victory parade in Paris (1871)

On 1 March 1871 the Imperial German Army paraded through Paris to mark their victory in the Franco-Prussian War. Franco-Prussian War and German victory parade in Paris (1871) are 1871 in France.

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German-speaking Switzerland

The German-speaking part of Switzerland (Deutschschweiz, Suisse alémanique, Svizzera tedesca, Svizra tudestga) comprises about 65 percent of Switzerland (North Western Switzerland, Eastern Switzerland, Central Switzerland, most of the Swiss Plateau and the greater part of the Swiss Alps).

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi (In his native Ligurian language, he is known as Gioxeppe Gaibado. In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as Jousé or Josep. 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, patriot, revolutionary and republican.

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Government of National Defense

The Government of National Defense (Gouvernement de la Défense nationale) was the first government of the Third Republic of France from 4 September 1870 to 13 February 1871 during the Franco-Prussian War. Franco-Prussian War and government of National Defense are 1870 in France and 1871 in France.

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Grand Duchy of Baden

The Grand Duchy of Baden (Großherzogtum Baden) was a state in south-west Germany on the east bank of the Rhine.

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Grand Duchy of Hesse

The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein) was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918.

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Havana

Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.

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Havas

Havas SA is a French multinational advertising and public relations company, with its registered office and head office in Puteaux, France.

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Hôtel de Ville, Paris

The (City Hall) is the city hall of Paris, France, standing on the in the 4th arrondissement.

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Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke (26 October 180024 April 1891) was a Prussian field marshal.

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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and politician who was twice prime minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.

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History of French foreign relations

The history of French foreign relations covers French diplomacy and foreign relations down to 1981.

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House of Bonaparte

The House of Bonaparte is a former imperial and royal European dynasty of Italian origin.

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House of Bourbon

The House of Bourbon (also) is a dynasty that originated in the Kingdom of France as a branch of the Capetian dynasty, the royal House of France.

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House of Hohenzollern

The House of Hohenzollern (Haus Hohenzollern,; Casa de Hohenzollern) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania.

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Indirect fire

Indirect fire is aiming and firing a projectile without relying on a direct line of sight between the gun and its target, as in the case of direct fire.

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International Committee of the Red Cross

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate.

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International Committee of the Red Cross archives

The archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are based in Geneva and were founded in 1863 at the time of the ICRC's inception.

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International relations (1814–1919)

This article covers worldwide diplomacy and, more generally, the international relations of the great powers from 1814 to 1919.

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Invasion of Algiers (1830)

The invasion of Algiers in 1830 was a large-scale military operation by which the Kingdom of France, ruled by Charles X, invaded and conquered the Deylik of Algiers.

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Investment (military)

Investment is the military process of surrounding an enemy fort (or town) with armed forces to prevent entry or escape.

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Ironclad warship

An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s.

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Jacques Louis Randon

Jacques Louis César Alexandre Randon, 1st Count Randon (25 March 1795 – 16 January 1871) was a French military and political leader, also Marshal of France and governor of Algeria.

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Jean Auguste Margueritte

Jean Auguste Margueritte (15 January 1823 – 6 September 1870), French General, father of Victor Margueritte and Paul Margueritte.

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Jules Favre

Jules Claude Gabriel Favre (21 March 1809 – 20 January 1880) was a French statesman and lawyer.

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Jules Simon

Jules François Simon (31 December 1814 – 8 June 1896) was a French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leaders of the Moderate Republicans in the Third French Republic.

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Justin Clinchant

Justin Clinchant (24 December 1820, Thiaucourt-Regniéville – 20 March 1881) was a French Army general of the 19th century.

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Kabylia

Kabylia or Kabylie (Kabyle: Tamurt n Leqbayel or Iqbayliyen, meaning "Land of Kabyles",, meaning "Land of the Tribes") is a mountainous coastal region in northern Algeria and the homeland of the Kabyle people.

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Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz

Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (27 December 1796 – 2 August 1877) was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall.

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Karl Marx

Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

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Kingdom of Bavaria

The Kingdom of Bavaria (Königreich Bayern;; spelled Baiern until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1806 and continued to exist until 1918.

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Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.

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Kingdom of Württemberg

The Kingdom of Württemberg (Königreich Württemberg) was a German state that existed from 1805 to 1918, located within the area that is now Baden-Württemberg.

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Landwehr

Landwehr, or Landeswehr, is a German language term used in referring to certain national armies, or militias found in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe.

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Léon Gambetta

Léon Gambetta (2 April 1838 – 31 December 1882) was a French lawyer and republican politician who proclaimed the French Third Republic in 1870 and played a prominent role in its early government.

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Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern

Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern (Leopold Stephan Karl Anton Gustav Eduard Tassilo Fürst von Hohenzollern; 22 September 1835 – 8 June 1905) was the head of the Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern, and played a fleeting role in European power politics in connection with the Franco-Prussian War.

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Lille

Lille (Rijsel; Lile; Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders.

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Limbers and caissons

A limber is a two-wheeled cart designed to support the trail of an artillery piece, or the stock of a field carriage such as a caisson or traveling forge, allowing it to be towed.

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Line infantry

Line infantry was the type of infantry that formed the bulk of most European land armies from the mid-17th century to the mid-19th century.

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List of Franco-Prussian War films

Below is an incomplete list of feature films, television films or TV series which include events of the Franco-Prussian War.

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Lorraine

Lorraine, also,,; Lorrain: Louréne; Lorraine Franconian: Lottringe; Lothringen; Loutrengen; Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Grand Est.

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Louis Faidherbe

Louis Léon César Faidherbe (3 June 1818 – 29 September 1889) was a French general and colonial administrator.

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Louis-Jules Trochu

Louis-Jules Trochu (12 March 18157 October 1896) was a French military leader and politician.

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Luxembourg

Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxemburg; Luxembourg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in Western Europe.

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Metz

Metz (Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then Mettis) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.

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Military supply-chain management

Military supply-chain management is a cross-functional approach to procuring, producing and delivering products and services for military materiel applications.

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Ministry of War (Prussia)

The Prussian War Ministry was gradually established between 1808 and 1809 as part of a series of reforms initiated by the Military Reorganization Commission created after the disastrous Treaties of Tilsit.

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Mission-type tactics

Mission-type tactics (German: Auftragstaktik, from Auftrag and Taktik; also known as mission command in the United States and the United Kingdom) is a method of command and delegation where the military commander gives subordinate leaders a clearly-defined objective, high-level details such as a timeframe, and the forces needed to accomplish that objective.

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Mitrailleuse

A mitrailleuse (from French mitraille, "grapeshot") is a type of volley gun with barrels of rifle calibre that can fire either all rounds at once or in rapid succession.

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Mobilization

Mobilization (alternatively spelled as mobilisation) is the act of assembling and readying military troops and supplies for war.

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Mokrani Revolt

The Mokrani Revolt (lit; lit) was the most important local uprising against France in Algeria since the conquest in 1830. Franco-Prussian War and Mokrani Revolt are wars involving France.

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Montmartre

Montmartre is a large hill in Paris's northern 18th arrondissement.

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Moselle

The Moselle (Mosel; Musel) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany.

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Moselle (department)

Moselle is the most populous department in Lorraine, in the northeast of France, and is named after the river Moselle, a tributary of the Rhine, which flows through the western part of the department.

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Muzzleloader

A muzzleloader is any firearm in which the user loads the projectile and the propellant charge into the muzzle end of the gun (i.e., from the forward, open end of the gun's barrel).

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Nagasaki

, officially known as Nagasaki City (label), is the capital and the largest city of the Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

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Napoléon, comte Daru

Napoléon, comte Daru (11 June 1807 – 20 February 1890), was a French soldier and politician.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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Napoleon III

Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as the second Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. Franco-Prussian War and Napoleonic Wars are wars involving Bavaria, wars involving France, wars involving Germany, wars involving Saxony and wars involving Württemberg.

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Nation state

A nation-state is a political unit where the state, a centralized political organization ruling over a population within a territory, and the nation, a community based on a common identity, are congruent.

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National Guard (France)

The National Guard (Garde nationale) is a French military, gendarmerie, and police reserve force, active in its current form since 2016 but originally founded in 1789 during the French Revolution.

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Needle gun

A needle gun (or needle rifle for varieties with rifling) is a firearm that has a needle-like firing pin, which can pass through the paper cartridge case to strike a percussion cap at the bullet base.

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North German Confederation

The North German Confederation (Norddeutscher Bund) was initially a German military alliance established in August 1866 under the leadership of the Kingdom of Prussia, which was transformed in the subsequent year into a confederated state (a de facto federal state) that existed from July 1867 to December 1870.

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North German Federal Navy

The North German Federal Navy (Norddeutsche Bundesmarine or Marine des Norddeutschen Bundes), was the Navy of the North German Confederation, formed out of the Prussian Navy in 1867.

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North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Operational level of war

In the field of military theory, the operational level of war (also called operational art, as derived from оперативное искусство, or operational warfare) represents the level of command that connects the details of tactics with the goals of strategy.

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Orléans

Orléans ((US) and) is a city in north-central France, about 120 kilometres (74 miles) southwest of Paris.

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Otto von Bismarck

Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898; born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck) was a Prussian statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany.

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Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles (château de Versailles) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France.

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Paris Commune

The Paris Commune was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871. Franco-Prussian War and Paris Commune are 1871 in France.

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Partisan (military)

A partisan is a member of a domestic irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation by some kind of insurgent activity.

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Patrice de MacMahon

Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de MacMahon, marquis de MacMahon, duc de Magenta (13 June 1808 – 17 October 1893), was a French general and politician, with the distinction of Marshal of France.

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Peace of Prague (1866)

The Peace of Prague (Prager Frieden) was a peace treaty signed by the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire at Prague on 23 August 1866.

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Pincer movement

The pincer movement, or double envelopment, is a military maneuver in which forces simultaneously attack both flanks (sides) of an enemy formation.

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Pontarlier

Pontarlier (Latin: Ariolica) is a commune and one of the two sub-prefectures of the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France near the Swiss border.

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Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828–1885)

Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolaus of Prussia (20 March 1828 – 15 June 1885) was the son of Prince Charles of Prussia (1801–1883) and his wife, Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877).

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Proclamation of the German Empire

The proclamation of the German Empire, also known as the Deutsche Reichsgründung, took place in January 1871 after the joint victory of the German states in the Franco-Prussian War. Franco-Prussian War and proclamation of the German Empire are 1871 in Germany.

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Proclamation of the German Empire (paintings)

The Proclamation of the German Empire (18 January 1871) is the title of several historical paintings by the German painter Anton von Werner.

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Prussian Staff College

The Prussian Staff College, also Prussian War College (Preußische Kriegsakademie) was the highest military facility of the Kingdom of Prussia to educate, train, and develop general staff officers.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.

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Realpolitik

Realpolitik is the approach of conducting diplomatic or political policies based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than strictly following ideological, moral, or ethical premises.

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Red flag (politics)

In politics, a red flag is predominantly a symbol of left-wing ideologies, including socialism, communism, anarchism, and the labour movement.

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Regency of Algiers

The Regency of Algiers (lit, Eyalet-i Cezâyir-i Garp) was a largely independent early modern Ottoman tributary state on the Barbary Coast of North Africa between 1516 and 1830 established by the corsair brothers Aruj and Hayreddin Barbarossa, also known as Oruç and Khayr ad-Din.

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Revanchism

Revanchism (revanchisme, from revanche, "revenge") is the political manifestation of the will to reverse the territorial losses which are incurred by a country, frequently after a war or after a social movement.

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Rhine Province

The Rhine Province (Rheinprovinz), also known as Rhenish Prussia (Rheinpreußen) or synonymous with the Rhineland (Rheinland), was the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, from 1822 to 1945.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris

The Archdiocese of Paris (Archidioecesis Parisiensis; Archidiocèse de Paris) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France.

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Royal Danish Navy

The Royal Danish Navy (Søværnet) is the sea-based branch of the Danish Armed Forces force.

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Rozérieulles

Rozérieulles (Roseringen) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russo-Japanese War

The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire.

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Saar (river)

The Saar (Sarre) is a river in northeastern France and western Germany, and a right tributary of the Moselle.

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Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken (Saar Bridges; Rhenish Franconian: Sabrigge; Sarrebruck; Saarbrécken; Saravipons) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany.

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Saarland

Saarland (Sarre) is a state of Germany in the southwest of the country.

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Saarlouis

Saarlouis (Sarrelouis,; formerly Sarre-Libre and Saarlautern) is a town in Saarland, Germany, capital of the district of Saarlouis.

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Saint-Privat-la-Montagne

Saint-Privat-la-Montagne is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

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Second Battle of Orléans

The Second Battle of Orléans was fought during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Franco-Prussian War and Second Battle of Orléans are 1870 in France and conflicts in 1870.

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Second French Empire

The Second French Empire, officially the French Empire, was an Imperial Bonapartist regime, ruled by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon III) from 14 January 1852 to 27 October 1870, between the Second and the Third French Republics.

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Second French intervention in Mexico

The second French intervention in Mexico (segunda intervención francesa en México), also known as the Second Franco-Mexican War (1861–1867), was a military invasion of the Republic of Mexico by the French Empire of Napoleon III, purportedly to force the collection of Mexican debts in conjunction with Great Britain and Spain. Franco-Prussian War and second French intervention in Mexico are wars involving France.

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Second Italian War of Independence

The Second Italian War of Independence, also called the Sardinian War, the Austro-Sardinian War, the Franco-Austrian War, or the Italian War of 1859 (Italian: Seconda guerra d'indipendenza italiana; German: Sardinischer Krieg; French: Campagne d'Italie), was fought by the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia against the Austrian Empire in 1859 and played a crucial part in the process of Italian Unification. Franco-Prussian War and Second Italian War of Independence are wars involving France.

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Semaine sanglante

The semaine sanglante ("Bloody Week") was a weeklong battle in Paris from 21 to 28 May 1871, during which the French Army recaptured the city from the Paris Commune.

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Siding (rail)

A siding, in rail terminology, is a low-speed track section distinct from a running line or through route such as a main line, branch line, or spur.

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Siege of Metz (1870)

The Siege of Metz was a battle fought during the Franco-Prussian War from August 19 to October 27, 1870 and ended in a decisive allied German victory. Franco-Prussian War and Siege of Metz (1870) are 1870 in France and conflicts in 1870.

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Siege of Paris (1870–1871)

The Siege of Paris took place from 19 September 1870 to 28 January 1871 and ended in the capture of the city by forces of the various states of the North German Confederation, led by the Kingdom of Prussia. Franco-Prussian War and Siege of Paris (1870–1871) are 1870 in France, 1871 in France and conflicts in 1870.

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Spicheren

Spicheren is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

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Staff (military)

A military staff or general staff (also referred to as army staff, navy staff, or air staff within the individual services) is a group of officers, enlisted and civilian staff who serve the commander of a division or other large military unit in their command and control role through planning, analysis, and information gathering, as well as by relaying, coordinating, and supervising the execution of their plans and orders, especially in case of multiple simultaneous and rapidly changing complex operations.

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Strasbourg

Strasbourg (Straßburg) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France, at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace.

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The Defense of Champigny

The Defense of Champigny is a late-19th-century painting by Édouard Detaille.

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The Last Cartridges (painting)

The Last Cartridges (French: Les Dernières Cartouches) is an oil on canvas painting by the French artist Alphonse de Neuville, from 1873.

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Thionville

Thionville (Diedenhofen) is a city in the northeastern French department of Moselle.

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Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast (September 26, 1840December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon".

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Topography

Topography is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces.

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Toul

Toul is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.

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Tours

Tours (meaning Towers) is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France.

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Treaties of Tilsit

The Treaties of Tilsit, also collectively known as the Peace of Tilsit, were two peace treaties signed by French Emperor Napoleon in the town of Tilsit in July 1807 in the aftermath of his victory at Friedland, at the end of the War of the Fourth Coalition. Franco-Prussian War and treaties of Tilsit are France–Prussia relations.

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Treaty of Frankfurt (1871)

The Treaty of Frankfurt (Traité de Francfort; Friede von Frankfurt) was a peace treaty signed in Frankfurt on 10 May 1871, at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Franco-Prussian War and treaty of Frankfurt (1871) are 1871 in France and 1871 in Germany.

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Treaty of Paris (1856)

The Treaty of Paris of 1856 brought an end to the Crimean War between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom, the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia.

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Trier

Trier (Tréier), formerly and traditionally known in English as Trèves and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany.

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Troupes de marine

The Troupes de Marine or TDM, sometimes simply referred to as "French Marines" in English, are one of the major components of the French Army and comprise several specialties: infantry, airborne, armoured cavalry, artillery, engineering, and transmissions (signals).

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Tuileries Palace

The Tuileries Palace (Palais des Tuileries) was a royal and imperial palace in Paris which stood on the right bank of the Seine, directly in front of the Louvre Palace.

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Turret ship

Turret ships were a 19th-century type of warship, the earliest to have their guns mounted in a revolving gun turret, instead of a broadside arrangement.

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Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a disease caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi bacteria, also called Salmonella typhi.

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Unification of Germany

The unification of Germany was a process of building the first nation-state for Germans with federal features based on the concept of Lesser Germany (one without Habsburgs' multi-ethnic Austria or its German-speaking part). Franco-Prussian War and unification of Germany are 1871 in Germany.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.

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Versailles, Yvelines

Versailles is a commune in the department of the Yvelines, Île-de-France, renowned worldwide for the Château de Versailles and the gardens of Versailles, designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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Vosges

The Vosges (Vogesen; Franconian and Vogese) are a range of medium mountains in Eastern France, near its border with Germany.

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Walters Art Museum

Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon section of Baltimore, Maryland.

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War reparations

War reparations are compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other.

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Wœrth

Wœrth or Woerth is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France.

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West Africa

West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.

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Wilhelmshaven

Wilhelmshaven (Wilhelm's Harbour; Northern Low Saxon: Willemshaven) is a coastal town in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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William I, German Emperor

William I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888), or Wilhelm I, was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his death in 1888.

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Wissembourg

Wissembourg (South Franconian: Weisseburch; German: Weißenburg) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Franco-Prussian War and World War I are wars involving France and wars involving Germany.

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16th Division (German Empire)

The 16th Division (16. Division) was a unit of the Prussian/German Army.

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1851 French coup d'état

The coup d'état of 2 December 1851 was a self-coup staged by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (later Napoleon III), at the time President of France under the Second Republic.

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1st Guards Infantry Division (German Empire)

The 1st Guards Infantry Division (German: 1. Garde-Infanterie-Division) was a unit of the Prussian (and later) Imperial German Army and was stationed in Berlin.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War

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