Today we discuss the monumental clash between France and the German states in 1870 known as the Franco-Prussian War.

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Sources
Clodfelter, Michael. Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015, 4th ed. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017.

Crankshaw, Edward. Bismarck. New York: The Viking Press, 1981.

Wawro, Geoffrey. The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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