It showed a map of the island with blood dripping from ... Germany forced France to surrender border provinces after it won the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Half a century later, Germany ...

Caillebotte (1848-1894) was best known for being a benefactor to his fellow Impressionists. Dismissed by his contemporaries as “a millionaire who paints in his spare time,” Caillebotte’s 500+ works ...

The relatives of his American-born parents immigrated from Kashubia in northern Poland, some in the 1830s, some during the Franco-Prussian War of ... spreading out a huge map on my lap.

It all started, bizarrely, around 700 miles away - with the Franco-Prussian War. France declared war on Prussia in July 1870 - primarily in an attempt to reassert its dominant position in ...

George Wingate were concerned about the poor marksmanship exhibited by Northern soldiers during the Civil War. And they had been studying the massive impact of breach-loading rifles used by Germans to ...

Following the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, the land was ceded to Prussia (soon after the German Empire) and was seen as an ...

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One could broaden it further and argue that the period from 1848 to 1871—bracketed by the liberal revolutions and the end of the Franco-Prussian War—was marked by a series of violent shocks ...

They thought about how Catholics in France and Germany, professing the same faith, had spent nearly 75 years in off-and-on conflict beginning with the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. It was time for ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.