Talk:Franco-Prussian War

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The major problem would lie here: there was no Austro-Prussian War in IB and due to the Vienna Congress *there*, no similar Bohemian-Prussian war could happen, because Bohemia was already sharp on Prussia just waiting to punish any Prussian provocation. Industrial power of Bohemia was much stronger than of Austria *here*, they did not loose Silesia; vice versa, Prussia was weaker. I would try to think out, what might substitute the Austro-Prussian War in consequences. -- Jan II.

Is the current text straight from Wikipedia? Benkarnell 17:15, 17 April 2008 (PDT)

I would believe so. hence it's marked as source.BoArthur 06:35, 18 April 2008 (PDT)

Causus Belli

The cause of the war might have been Luxembourg itself. With France under a Napoleon once more, there might have been fear in Germany that the French emperor might try to do as his uncle and use Luxembourg to obtain the HRE's crown. To prevent this, Prussia might have push the idea of getting rid of foreign influence (there might even have been veiled threats toward Scandinavia) to drum up support for an attack on France. --Marc Pasquin 12:15, 19 April 2008 (PDT)

At the time, Lux was not officially annexed to France anyway. Napoleon may have made the tensions worse by moving toward official annexation. The real Napoleon III and Bismarck sparred over Lux as a prelude to the war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_Crisis; http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crise_luxembourgeoise. Benkarnell 12:47, 19 April 2008 (PDT)

I like where this is going... BoArthur 06:53, 22 April 2008 (PDT)

We seem to have stalled out on this...any comments to get it rolling again? BoArthur 17:41, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

OK, to get our bearings, I'll re-ask a question Marc and I were chewing on a while back: in 1870, did the Holy Roman Empire look more like the German Confederation from *here* (http://www.thomasgraz.net/glass/map-D-1815.htm) or more like modern Germany of IB (Image:HRE map.png)? Benkarnell 19:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

I'll defer to Jan to be sure, but I do believe that Germany's history is relatively unchanged until the mid 19th Century (1800's). Obviously, it was the Hohenzollern Prussians that got the world fired up into GWI, IIRC; Jan? BoArthur 19:39, 8 July 2008 (UTC)