Franco-Prussian War
Noun
Meaning
a war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany; 1870-1871
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After a debriefing by von Gröning, Chapman was awarded the Iron Cross for his work in apparently damaging the de Havilland works and the City of Lancaster, making him the first Englishman to receive such an award since the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71.
After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 Napoléon III was imprisoned in Wilhelmshöhe.
Clyde K. Hyder, Algernon Swinburne: The Critical Heritage, 1995, p. 185 The Franco-Prussian War broke out soon after his graduation from college in 1870; he enlisted as a volunteer.
As a Frenchman, with the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War still an offence to French national pride, he refused to perform in Germany.
During the Siege of Paris, from 19 September 1870 to 28 January 1871, which brought about French defeat in the Franco-Prussian war, the French people suffered great famine and poverty.
Because of the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War and because Japan was used as the model for political and legal reform, the law codes which were adopted were modeled closely after that of Germany.