Carlisle family find German First World War medal in garage
A Carlisle family has said that they are 'surprised' after finding a German First World War medal in their garage.
British Red Cross2 年
The beginnings of the British Red Cross
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 ...
Wall Street Journal23 天
‘A Measure Short of War’ Review: The Geopolitics of Lying
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 ...
BBC5 年
Why unification was achieved in Germany
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 ...
British Red Cross9 个月
The beginning of the Red Cross
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 ...
PBS1 年
Bruce B. Hermann
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 ...