71.2 Franco-Prussian War 1870-71

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

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🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

For centuries, Europe’s German centre had been politically fragmented and weak. The continent had been dominated by states on the periphery, whose interest was to maintain the power vacuum at the centre. Now, however, for the first time, the Germans were united under the leadership of Otto von Bismarck and launched a major invasion into France, which ended up destroying the balance of power on the continent.

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0:29.0	Place must be 18 or over. Have you, Hello and welcome to a History of Europe Key Battles podcast. This is the second and final part on the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to 1871.
1:13.4	My name is Carl Rilat, and over the last approximately 200 episodes, I have gone through
1:19.5	the history of Europe chronologically, from the ancient Greeks onwards.
1:24.5	I focus on certain battles and wars, but the aim of each narrative is to place each conflict
1:29.3	in the context of the grand sweep of European history.
1:33.3	The The
1:47.0	The Last week I described the background to the Franco-Prussian War
2:23.1	and how the two sides, the French and the German, compared.
2:28.0	The Prussians were divided into three main armies.
2:31.6	Two of them were led by army chiefs of 1866, the third army by Crown Prince
2:37.5	Frederick Wilhelm and the second by Prince Frederick Charles, both of whom had fought competently,
2:43.5	if not exceptionally well, against the Austrians. The remaining army command of the smaller
2:49.0	First Army was given to the veteran general Karl von Steinmetz.
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