Franco Prussian war bomb parts. Drop by balloon in 1870 in France

Description: Original metal bomb fragment, dropped by balloon during the Franco Prussian war of 1870-71. This is an original part of a bomb that was framed. Apparently in the 1870s during the Franco Prussian war. From wiki: The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War,[b] often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and 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 reassert its dominant position in continental Europe, which appeared in question following the decisive Prussian victory over Austria in 1866.[13] According to some historians, Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck deliberately provoked the French into declaring war on Prussia in order to induce four independent southern German states—Baden, Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse-Darmstadt—to join the North German Confederation; other historians contend that Bismarck exploited the circumstances as they unfolded. All agree that Bismarck recognized the potential for new German alliances, given the situation as a whole.[14] Franco-Prussian War Part of the unification of Germany. (clockwise from top right) Battle of Mars-la-Tour, 16 August 1870 The Lauenburg 9th Jäger Battalion at Gravelotte Damaged building in Paris, 1871 The Defense of Champigny The Siege of Paris in 1870 The Proclamation of the German Empire Date19 July 1870 – 28 January 1871 (6 months, 1 week and 2 days)Location France and the Rhine Province, Prussia Result German victory End of the Second French Empire Unification of Germany and establishment of the German Empire Territorial changesGerman annexation of Alsace-Lorraine Belligerents Before 4 September 1870: French Empire After 4 September 1870: French Republic[a] Foreign volunteers Before 18 January 1871: North German Confederation Prussia Saxony Hesse[1] and 19 smaller states Bavaria Württemberg Baden After 18 January 1871: German Empire Commanders and leaders Second French Empire Napoleon III Surrendered Second French Empire François Bazaine Surrendered Second French Empire Patrice de MacMahon Surrendered French Third Republic Louis-Jules Trochu French Third Republic Léon Gambetta French Third Republic Giuseppe Garibaldi German Empire Wilhelm I German Empire Otto von Bismarck German Empire Helmuth von Moltke German Empire Crown Prince Friedrich German Empire Prince Friedrich Karl German Empire Karl F. von Steinmetz German Empire Albrecht von Roon Strength Total deployment: 2,000,740[2] Initial strength: 909,951 492,585 active, including 300,000 reservists[3][2] 417,366 Garde Mobile[3] Peak field army strength: 710,000[2] Total deployment: 1,494,412[4] Initial strength: 938,424 730,274 regulars and reservists[2] 208,150 Landwehr[2] Peak field army strength: 949,337[2] Casualties and losses 756,285[5][6] 138,871 dead[7][8][6] 143,000 wounded 474,414 captured or interned[9][6][10] 144,642[11] 44,700 dead[12] 89,732 wounded 10,129 missing or captured ~250,000 civilians dead, including 162,000 Germans in a smallpox epidemic spread by French POWs[11] a Until 4 September 1870. b From 4 September 1870. c From 18 January 1871. 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; France 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. German forces were superior in numbers, training, and leadership and made more effective use of mod The causes of the Franco-Prussian War are rooted in the events surrounding the lead up to the unification of the German states under Otto von Bismarck. France had gained the status of being the dominant power of continental Europe as a result of the Franco-Austrian War of 1859. During the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, the Empress Eugénie, Foreign Minister Drouyn de Lhuys and War Minister Jacques Louis Randon were concerned that the power of Prussia might overtake that of France. They unsuccessfully urged Napoleon to mass troops at France's eastern borders while the bulk of the Prussian armies were still engaged in Bohemia as a warning that no territorial changes could be effected in Germany without consulting France.[15] As a result of Prussia's annexation of several German states which had sided with Austria during the war and the formation of the North German Confederation under Prussia's aegis, French public opinion stiffened and now demanded more firmness as well as territorial compensations. As a result, Napoleon demanded from Prussia a return to the French borders of 1814, with the annexation of Luxembourg, most of Saarland, and the Bavarian Palatinate. Bismarck flatly refused what he disdainfully termed France's politique des pourboires ("tipping policy").[16][17] He then communicated Napoleon III's written territorial demands to Bavaria and the other southern German states of Württemberg, Baden and Hesse-Darmstadt, which hastened the conclusion of defensive military alliances with these states.[18] France had been strongly opposed to any further alliance of German states, which would have threatened French continental dominance.[19]

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