In the south-east Prussia is separated from Austria and Bohemia by the Sudetic chain, which begins at the valley of the Oder and extends thence towards the north-west. This chain includes the Riesen Gebirge, with the highest mountain in Prussia (Schneekoppe), and subsides gradually in the ...
Bismarck effected the elimination of Austria from German affairs and the union of Germany under Prussian hegemony by means of three deliberately planned wars. The first war (1864) was fought in alliance with Austria against Denmark over Schleswig-Holstein. Its settlement furnished a pretext for the...
How should an open country like his, the highroad between Sweden and Austria, be delivered from the endless war? Even if, by miracle, a peace could be devised, which Calvinists and Lutherans could both accept, what prospect73, nay74 what possibility existed that territories so ill-compacted...
Hardenberg adroitly steered Prussia through the difficulties of 1812, when Prussia andAustria, in enforced alliance with France, participated in Napoleon’s attack onRussia. Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow was the signal for a rising against the French. The Prussian army, withGebhard Leberecht von ...
Hardenberg adroitly steered Prussia through the difficulties of 1812, when Prussia and Austria, in enforced alliance with France, participated in Napoleon’s attack on Russia. Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow was the signal for a rising against the French. The Prussian army, with Gebhard Leberecht ...
Hardenberg adroitly steered Prussia through the difficulties of 1812, when Prussia andAustria, in enforced alliance with France, participated in Napoleon’s attack onRussia. Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow was the signal for a rising against the French. The Prussian army, withGebhard Leberecht von ...