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Hace 5 días · For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, expanding its size with the Prussian Army. Prussia, with its capital at Königsberg and then, when it became the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, Berlin, decisively shaped the history of Germany.
Hace 1 día · The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, [b] 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.
- 19 July 1870 – 28 January 1871, (6 months, 1 week and 2 days)
- German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine
- France and the Rhine Province, Prussia
- German victory
Hace 1 día · His most significant accomplishments include his military successes in the Silesian wars, his reorganisation of the Prussian Army, the First Partition of Poland, and his patronage of the arts and the Enlightenment. Prussia greatly increased its territories and became a major military power in Europe under his rule.
Hace 1 día · Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815), Napoleon’s final defeat at the hands of the duke of Wellington’s combined allied army and a Prussian army under Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher. The battle, fought south of Waterloo, Belgium, ended 23 years of recurrent warfare between France and the other powers of Europe.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The Battle of Waterloo was a conflict on June 18, 1815, during the Hundred Days, the period from Napoleon’s escape from exile to the return of Loui...
- The Battle of Waterloo marked the final defeat of Napoleon. On June 22, 1815, four days after losing the conflict, Napoleon abdicated as emperor of...
- Napoleon, emperor of France, launched a series of wars that temporarily ended in 1814, when he was forced to abdicate. Exiled to Elba, he left the...
- Following secondary battles, the Battle of Waterloo began on June 18, 1815. Four French attacks on the allied army’s centre failed to break through...
1 de may. de 2024 · A Prussian detachment, known as the army of the Main, meanwhile dealt with the forces of Bavaria and other German states that had sided with Austria. Simultaneously, a campaign was fought in Venetia between the Austrian army of the south and the Italians, who had made an alliance with Prussia.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
23 de abr. de 2024 · Frederick II, king of Prussia (1740–86), a brilliant military campaigner who, in a series of diplomatic stratagems and wars, greatly enlarged Prussia’s territories and made Prussia the foremost military power in Europe. He ruled as an enlightened despot and instituted numerous economic, civil, and social reforms.
17 de abr. de 2024 · While Moltke does feature in Konijnendijk’s account, it is mostly in the context of the increasing professionalisation of the Prussian army. One wonders how much the near-idolization of Moltke after the war of 1870–1 has influenced the study of ancient military history, [3] which after all was always the study of history’s ...
