franco-prussian war in English

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the war of 1870–71 between France (under Napoleon III) and Prussia, in which Prussian troops advanced into France and decisively defeated the French at Sedan. The defeat marked the end of the French Second Empire. For Prussia, the proclamation of the new German Empire at Versailles was the climax of Bismarck's ambitions to unite Germany.

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1. The Franco - Prussian war had sown seeds of enmity which were eventually to bear fruit.

2. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, he was taken prisoner at the Siege of Metz.

3. The French army was defeated in the Franco - Prussian War and forced to cede Alsace to Prussia.

4. The disaster of the Franco-Prussian War (French: Guerre franco-allemande de 1870) led the French to create in urgency numerous marching regiments.

5. Set during the Franco-Prussian war, Butterball is a sympathetic portrayal of a prostitute’s mistreatment at the hands of a cold-hearted bourgeoisie

6. All work on the building came to a halt during the Franco-Prussian War due to the siege of Paris (September 1870 – January 1871).

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

8. In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the famous pigeon post of Paris carried up to 50,000 microfilmed telegrams per pigeon flight from Tours into the besieged capital.

9. Georges Méliès attended the Lycée Michelet from age seven until it was bombed during the Franco-Prussian War; he was then sent to the prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand.

10. The corpses of Parisian Communards. The Communards were members and supporters of the short-lived 1871 Paris Commune formed in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War and France's defeat.

11. 24 However, a humiliating loss in the Franco-Prussian war of 18 when Napoleon was captured, shattered confidence in the regime; a Third Republic was declared in a bloodless revolution in 18

12. The school was officially founded in 1874, after three years of functioning, by teachers and Protestant academics from Alsace who came to France after the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by the German Empire during the Franco-Prussian War.

13. Amiens was under siege for half a year in 1597, fought over during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), almost destroyed during the First and Second World Wars, and suffered economic deprivation during much of the later twentieth century

14. As a result of the annexation of Alsace after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, Alsace-Lorraine was quickly connected to the rail network by the Freiburg–Colmar railway, which made a third platform track and second platform necessary.

15. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), Bernhardi was a cavalry lieutenant in the 14th Hussars of the Prussian Army, and at the end of that conflict had the honor of being the first German to ride through the Arc de Triomphe when the Germans entered Paris.