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Franco-Prussian War

1870 CE – 1871 CE

The war that unified Germany and humiliated France — Bismarck engineered a conflict that crowned a Kaiser at Versailles and sowed the seeds of two World Wars.

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Conflict · Europe

Franco-Prussian War

1870 CE – 1871 CE

The war that unified Germany and humiliated France — Bismarck engineered a conflict that crowned a Kaiser at Versailles and sowed the seeds of two World Wars.

Standing in 1870 CE

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