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Franco-Prussian War - Animated History

Two empires. One war. And the world changed forever. The Franco-Prussian War wasn’t just about borders - it was about dominance, humiliation, and the violent birth of modern Germany. In this animated ...
Discover how Prussia decisively defeated France in the Franco-Prussian War, a short but pivotal conflict that reshaped ...
‘Two brothers had left; only one returned,” writes Rachel Chrastil. The survivor was Dietrich von Lassberg, a 22-year-old subaltern in the Bavarian army. A year earlier he had exulted in his diary: ...
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, a combat veteran, is asking the right question: What increases lethality in a modern military? Pundits and analysts can disagree about the answers and the manner in ...