FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR

FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR

The franco-prussian war took place in 1870 to 1871. 

This war was between France and Prussia. The main figueres of it were, Naponeon III (France) and Otto Von Bismarck (Prussia). 

Bismark before going to war, he had a goal that he wanted to achieve no matter what. He wanted to unify prussia, Austria and all Germany into one nation. What he did was very smart. He planned a war with France in order to achieve his goal. 

The franco-prussian war was planned two years before it took place. Bismarck was a well preapered, smart and calcuating man. After plannig the war, he sent a telegram where he talked about war with France, and he made sure that the frencu people recieve it. Actually this message was supposy to be a secret, but it was not (all was planned).

Before the war, Prussia fought with Austria. Prussia won, so they became one and then they fought with France and Rusia. 

When France recieved the message, days after it declared war to Prussia. Napoleon III, was pressed by the french citizens to declcare war, so he did. French people is very patriotic! A key point in this war were the weapons. This was one of the main reasaons of why Prussia won. Thir superior use of weapons and logistics. Even though, Prussia wasn't always ahead on weapons. France had very good advances on this devices. During this war the French created the "mitrailleuse", however this weapon was so secret that even the french soldiers didn't know how to use it, so this led into a big disadvantage. France and Prussia were in kind of a game of who have better weapons, so when Prussia created a better one, then France made an a lot better one, and so on. At the Prussia was the one who won the war. 

Also in both sides, there where many "casualities". 

A curious fact was that when France lost the battle, they decided that tehy wre not using new weapons again, that tehy were returning to bayonets. They did, but this just led into a bloddy massacre. 
After winning the war Prussia sent prussians to run Paris. Prince Willian was pronounced Kheizer of the new German empire. Bismarck had achieved his goals with blood and iron. The radicals french republicans continued to fight. They raised up against the National Assembly. They created the Paris Commune, which wasn't well organized and led to a time of starvation and masacre. It failed at the end. People was so desesperate that they even ate rats and at the end they finally surendered. 

I think this was pure pride, as they felt defeated they wanted to prove that they weren't to surrender so easy. As I already say, french people is very patriotic. 

Well, this is basically what I understood about the video. HEHEHE, I had some troubles with the military historian accent, it was pretty diffulct :D