The army, necessary to defend Prussia's scattered lands, was also the chief force in unifying and shaping the state. In order to build a strong army in their relatively poor country, Prussia's rulers developed a government-controlled economy and an obedient central bureaucracy (the General...
When the news of Sedan reached Paris a bloodless revolution occurred. Napoleon was deposed, and a provisional government of national defense was formed under General TrochuTrochu, Louis Jules, 1815–96, French general. He fought in Algeria, in the Crimean War, and in the Italian war of 1859....
Prussian 美 英 adj.普鲁士(人)的;普鲁士式的 n.普鲁士人;(古)普鲁士语 网络普鲁士的;普鲁士模式;普鲁士文 英汉 网络释义 adj. 1. 普鲁士(人)的;普鲁士式的 n. 1. 普鲁士人 2. (古)普鲁士语
Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst was a Prussian general who developed the modern general staff system. With another reformer of army procedures, August von Gneisenau, he devised the “shrinkage system” (Krümpersystem), in which army recruits were q
Bismarck discussed proposals for legislation with their leader, Rudolf von Bennigsen, and the National Liberals supported his general conduct of policy. Moreover, in the first years, the National Liberals managed to win more votes than any other single party despite universal suffrage. Only in 1879...
He had returned in triumph from his exile on Elba in March, and, after gathering his forces, struck at the Allies in Belgium. While Marshall Ney held Wellington's army at Quatre Bras, Napoleon attacked and inflicted a heavy defeat on the Prussian army under General Bl眉cher at Ligny. ...
(IWMA) had declared at its conference the previous year that if war broke out a general strike should take place. However,Karl Marxhad privately argued that this would end in failure as the "working-class... is not yet sufficiently organised to throw any decisive weight on to the scales"...
Moltke was 57 when he and Marie moved into the stately mansion on the sunny side of 66 Behrenstrasse in the midst of ‘official’ Berlin.1 One whole floor was devoted to their living and official quarters. The offices of the General Staff were located on
Germany - Franco-Prussian War, Unification, Empire: The Seven Weeks’ War, by creating the North German Confederation, a powerful new state in the heart of central Europe, abruptly altered the system of international relations on the Continent. Every gov