Mobilizing Nature traces the environmental history of war and militarization in France, from the creation of Ch芒lons Camp in 1857 to military environmentalist policies in the twentieth century. It offers a fresh perspective on the well-known histories of the Franco-Prussian War, Western Front (...
The settlement at the end of the Franco-Prussian war left France angry at the loss of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany and keen to regain their lost territory. Large areas of both Austria-Hungary and Serbia were home to differing nationalist groups, all of whom wanted freedom from the states in w...
The Paris Peace Conference opened on January 18, 1919, a date that was significant in that it marked the anniversary of the coronation of German Emperor Wilhelm I, which took place in the Palace of Versailles at the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. ...
由于印度本土的民族运动,在1874年印度被划归为英皇(Crown)统治。 1870年普法战争(Franco-Prussian War)爆发,最后以法国失败而告终。其中,都德的《最后一课》便是以此为背景。十九世纪末,德国为了对抗法国,奥匈帝国(Austria-Hungary)为了对抗俄国,它们彼此结盟。后来,意大利也加入了进来,组成了三国联盟(Triple Alliance)。
Franco-German War (July 19, 1870–May 10, 1871), war in which a coalition of German states led by Prussia defeated France. The war marked the end of French hegemony in continental Europe and resulted in the creation of a unified Germany. Superior numbers
joined the new kingdom of Italy. Rome and its patrimony remained separate only because they were protected by French troops, who eventually withdrew in 1870 during theFranco-Prussian War. Italian troops entered Rome on September 20, 1870; after aplebiscitein October of that year, it became the...
ON ARRIVE!—THE IRISH IN THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR Irish soldiers, surgeons, revolutionaries and pressmen—as well as at least one downright chancer—all... ‘MY ENEMY’S ENEMY …’—THE 1861 TRENT AFFAIR IN THE NATION By Charles Tyner At the time of the Civil War, the United States wa...
Legacy of World War I None of the defeated nations at the Paris Peace Conference weighed in Formal peace negotiations opened in Paris on January 18, 1919, the anniversary of the coronation of German Emperor Wilhelm I at the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. World War I had brought ...
After the disaster of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) and the fall of Emperor Napoleon III, the newly voted National Assembly of the Third Republic had a majority of Monarchists, and they sought to install Henry V in a constitutional monarchy. It all failed, however, because Henry V re...
In 1871, when Dreyfus was 11 years old, the Franco-Prussian War ended with the fall of Paris, and the new German Empire annexed the territory of Alsace-Lorraine from France. Given the choice between becoming German citizens and leaving their homes, Dreyfus and his family left and eventually ...