Description: Shipping from Europe with tracking number Franco-Prussian WarJump to navigationJump to searchFranco-Prussian WarPart of the Unification of Germany (clockwise from top right)Battle of Mars-la-Tour, 16 August 1870The Lauenburg 9th Jäger Battalion at GravelotteThe Last CartridgesThe Defense of ChampignyThe Siege of Paris in 1870The Proclamation of the German EmpireDate19 July 1870 – 28 January 1871 (6 months, 1 week and 2 days)LocationFrance and PrussiaResultGerman victoryTreaty of FrankfurtFall of the Second French EmpireFormation of the French Third RepublicBeginning of Franco-German enmityParis Commune UprisingTerritorial changesUnification of Germany completedProclamation of the German EmpireGerman annexation of Alsace-LorraineBelligerents North German Confederation Kingdom of Prussia Kingdom of Saxony Grand Duchy of Baden Kingdom of Bavaria Kingdom of Württemberg Grand Duchy of Hesse German Empirec French Empirea French RepublicbForeign volunteersCommanders and leaders William I Otto von Bismarck Helmuth von Moltke Crown Prince Friedrich Prince Friedrich Karl Karl F. von Steinmetz Albrecht von Roon Napoleon III François A. Bazaine Patrice de MacMahon Louis Jules Trochu Léon Gambetta Giuseppe GaribaldiStrengthTotal deployment:1,494,412[1]Initial strength:938,424730,274 regulars and reservists[2]208,150 Landwehr[2]Peak field army strength:949,337[2]Total deployment:2,000,740[2]Initial strength:909,951492,585 active, including 300,000 reservists[3][2]417,366 Garde Mobile[3]Peak field army strength:710,000[2]Casualties and losses144,642[4]44,700 dead[5]89,732 wounded10,129 missing or captured1,005,427[6]138,871 dead[7][8]143,000 wounded723,556 captured, capitulated or interned[9]~250,000 civilians dead, including 162,000 Germans killed in a smallpox epidemic spread by French POWs[4]a Until 4 September 1870.b From 4 September 1870.c From 18 January 1871.showvteFranco-Prussian WarThe Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War,[a] often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire (and later, the Third French Republic) and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. Lasting from 19 July 1870 to 28 January 1871, the conflict was caused primarily by France's determination to restore its dominant position in continental Europe, which it had lost following Prussia's crushing victory over Austria in 1866.[10] According to some historians, Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck deliberately provoked the French into declaring war on Prussia in order to draw four independent southern German states—Baden, Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse-Darmstadt—into an alliance with the North German Confederation dominated by Prussia. Some historians contend that Bismarck exploited the circumstances as they unfolded. None, however, dispute the fact that Bismarck must have recognized the potential for new German alliances, given the situation as a whole.[11]France mobilised its army on 15 July 1870, leading the North German Confederation to respond with its own mobilisation later that day. On 16 July 1870, the French parliament voted to declare war on Prussia, and the declaration of war was delivered to Prussia three days later. French forces invaded German territory on 2 August. The German coalition mobilised its troops much more effectively than the French and invaded northeastern France on 4 August. The German forces were superior in numbers, had better training and leadership and made more effective use of modern technology, particularly railways and artillery.A series of swift Prussian and German victories in eastern France, culminating in the Siege of Metz and the Battle of Sedan, saw French Emperor Napoleon III captured and the army of the Second Empire decisively defeated. A Government of National Defence declared the Third French Republic in Paris on 4 September and continued the war for another five months; the German forces fought and defeated new French armies in northern France. The French capital, Paris, was besieged and fell on 28 January 1871, after which a revolutionary uprising called the Paris Commune seized power in the city and held it for two months, until it was bloodily suppressed by the regular French army at the end of May 1871.The German states proclaimed their union as the German Empire under the Prussian king Wilhelm I and Chancellor Bismarck. They finally united most of Germany as a nation-state (Austria was excluded). The Treaty of Frankfurt of 10 May 1871 gave Germany most of Alsace and some parts of Lorraine, which became the Imperial territory of Alsace-Lorraine (Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen). The German conquest of France and the unification of Germany upset the European balance of power that had existed since the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and Bismarck maintained great authority in international affairs for two decades.French determination to regain Alsace-Lorraine and fear of another Franco-German war, along with British apprehension about the balance of power, became factors in the causes of World War I.
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