In the 1870s, Otto von Bismarck—worried that France would reconstitute itself as a monarchy after its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War—“engineered crises” to “spook French elites and ...

After the serial 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II — along with the failed Versailles peace treaty of 1919 — the Allies in World War II wanted to ensure there would ...

It all started with a letter to The Times. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in July 1870, Colonel Robert Loyd-Lindsay, a war veteran who had witnessed the suffering of soldiers in the ...

In the build up to war, the southern confederate German states voluntarily joined the Prussian-controlled Northern German Confederation. Germany was now unified. The Franco-Prussian war was ended ...

The British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War was formed. It gave aid and relief to both warring armies during the Franco-Prussian War and in other wars and campaigns during the ...

After the serial 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II – along with the failed Versailles peace treaty of 1919 – the Allies in World War II wanted to ensure there would ...

After the serial 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II -- along with the failed Versailles peace treaty of 1919 -- the Allies in World War II wanted to ensure there would ...

The great great grandson of a Prussian Kürassier from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, as well as a great great nephew of a member of Kaiser Franz Joseph's body guard regiment, Hermann became a ...

Via Wikimedia Commons Less than a year before the end of World War II, the Secretary of the Treasury at the time, Henry Morgenthau, drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar Germany. After the ...