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The Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) was a war between France and Prussia, which was helped by German allies of Prussia. The war was provoked by Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck, who wanted to unite Germans under Prussian rule by making them fight together against a common enemy. Bismarck irritated French Emperor Napoleon III into ...
Caricature in the Satyrische Zeitbilder No. 28 of 1848 showing King Frederick William IV and Marshal Friedrich von Wrangel, commander-in-chief of the Prussian army, trying to close the door on delegates carrying the Constitution. The caption reads, "No sheet of paper shall come between me and my people."
The Austro-Prussian War, also by many variant names such as Seven Weeks' War, German Civil War, Brothers War or Fraternal War, known in Germany as Deutscher Krieg ("German War"), Deutscher Bruderkrieg ( pronounced [ˌdɔʏtʃɐ ˈbʁuːdɐkʁiːk] ⓘ; "German war of brothers") and by a variety of other names, was fought in 1866 between the ...
Prussian Regions Ceded under the Treaty of Versailles; Region Ceded to Area in km 2 Population in 1,000s German as native language in % Posen Poland 26,042 1,946 34.4 West Prussia Poland 15,865 965 42.7 Southeast Prussia Poland 501 25 36 Pomerania Poland 10 0.2 100 Silesia Poland 512 26 34.6 West Prussia (Danzig) Free City of Danzig 1,914 331 95.2
Attack of Prussian Infantry, 4 June 1745, by Carl Röchling. The Royal Prussian Army (1701–1919, German: Königlich Preußische Armee) served as the army of the Kingdom of Prussia. It became vital to the development of Prussia as a European power. The Prussian Army had its roots in the core mercenary forces of Brandenburg-Prussia during the ...
The Prussian Lithuanians, or Lietuvininkai [1] (singular: Lietuvininkas, plural: Lietuvininkai ), are Lithuanians, [2] originally Lithuanian language speakers, who formerly inhabited a territory in northeastern East Prussia called Prussian Lithuania, or Lithuania Minor ( Lithuanian: Prūsų Lietuva, Mažoji Lietuva, German: Preußisch-Litauen ...
The administrator of the region became Eduard Heinrich Flotwell, a self-declared enemy of Poles, who openly called for Germanisation and superiority of German culture over Polish people. Supported by Karl Grolman, a Prussian general, a program was presented that envisioned removing Poles from all offices, courts, judiciary system, and local ...
