success in the Franco-Prussian War, and form the heart of Imperial German Army. He covers in great detail the military reform instituted in 1859-1860, the rise of the General Staff system, changes in ...

whose military strategy won him high honors in the Franco-Prussian War, credited his success to Kriegsspiel: “The ability to quickly arrive at decisions and the cheerful assumption of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Carlisle family has said that they are 'surprised' after finding a German First World War medal in their garage.

With the column and the figure the monument is altogether 38 meters high The whole complex is a monument to the 25 years of peace after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and was inaugurated in 1899.