Franco-Proushie War
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| Franco-Proushie War | |||||||
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| Pairt o the wars o German unification | |||||||
Clockwise frae tap left: Proushie infantry at the Battle o Spicheren; Jeanniot's 1886 La ligne de feu (Battle o Mars-La-Tour); Werner's depiction o the capitulation o Sedan; Neuville's 1873 Les dernières cartouches (Battle o Bazeilles). | |||||||
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909,951
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1,200,000
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| Casualties an losses | |||||||
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756,285[3]
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116,696[5]
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The Franco-Proushie War or Franco-German War (German: Deutsch-Französischer Krieg, lit. German-French War, French: Guerre franco-allemande, lit. Franco-German War), eften referred tae in Fraunce as the War of 1870 (19 Julie 1870 – 10 Mey 1871), wis a conflict atween the Seicont French Empire o Napoleon III an the German states o the North German Confederation led bi the Kinrick o Proushie.
Fitnotes[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Howard 1991, p. 39.
- ↑ Wawro 2003, p. 42.
- ↑ Nolte 1884, pp. 526–527.
- ↑ Nolte 1884, p. 527.
- ↑ Howard 1991, p. 453.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- Howard, M. (1991). The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France 1870–1871. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-26671-8.
- Nolte, Frédérick (1884). L'Europe militaire et diplomatique au dix-neuvième siècle, 1815–1884 (4 volumes). E. Plon, Nourrit et ce. OCLC 4899575.
- Wawro, G. (2003). The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870–1871. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-58436-1.