How did Prussia beat France so badly? -The Franco-Prussian War in a Nutshell

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How did Prussia destroy France? The Franco-Prussian War in a Nutshell

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[colindaniels]

One side effect of the war was that, thanks to Napoleon III having to withdraw troops, it allowed Italy to finally capture Rome and complete Italian unification

[IshwarLalParmani]

"The great questions of the day will not be settled by the means of speeches and majority decisions, but by Iron and blood"
- Otto von Bismarck

[vandalosafadis]

*The fact that France had low demographic growth in the 19th century is also an interesting factor.*

[bots]

France had strange habit of declaring war to Germany and then staying on defensive.

[yousseftalal]

France trying not to be destroyed by germany every 50 years: impossible

[ヒガノボル]

This war also affected the evolution of the Japanese army. Japan used France as the model army to develop the Japanese army. There were many French military advisors hired by Japan. Even the Japanese Army theme march was written by a French. But after France lost, the Japanese switched to the Prussians as the model army. Even though Japan and Germany were on opposite sides in WW1 and Japan annexed the lost German colonies,
Japan had a favorable view of Germans.

[lerneanlion]

Fun Fact: The French people who left Alsace-Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War found new homes in Algeria, where the colonial government granted them the lands they seized from the Amazigh tribes that revolted against the French colonial authority as spoils of wars and have the local Amazigh tribes that partiticipated in the insurrection deported elsewhere, namely to France and New Caledonia.

[scanianerik]

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[greenling.]

Bismarck certainly was waiting for an opportunity to unite German south by defesnive war with an outside enemy (France). He didn't orchestrate it to be this specific occassion but when the situation became a crisis he did what he could to making it a war.

[ddjay]

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[MalikF]

Quick point of correction Bismarck was not the chancellor yet he was the minister president of Prussia

[kaystark]

Helmut Von Moltke (Prussia military leader) was a keyfigure to the military reform in Prussia. He's a main factor to the victory of Prussia.

[Catos]

Napoleon got nerfed in that last update

[Ferox]

The outcome war of 1870/71 should have been clear from the start actually. Firstly, the French were so bold - or rather stpuid - to give Bismarck what he wanted. They declared war first, thus bringing the southern german states into the conflict on Prussias side - since they feared a victorious france. Second, the prussian army had fought 2 succesful campains a few years prior. First against the danes and then against the austrians. So most of their soldiers had gained crucial combat experienced. Needles to say that their equipment was top notch and tested in battle. So in the end, the french were outmanned, outgunned and outmanouevered. Actually, i cannot fathom how Napoleon III and his advisors thought they could beat Prussia in an open conlict.

[thomasg]

*I especially loved the way this narrator tried to make the Germans "the bad guys" despite the French starting the war.*

[colindaniels]

The reason why Austria-Hungary chose not to join the war on France's side was because the Hungarians wanted no part of it.

Also a big part of why Napoleon III impulsively declared war was because he thought that the south German states would be on his side owing to their long standing enmity with Prussia

[stevens]

France had powerful innovations in politics and economics. These reforms gave it the power to repeatedly beat Germany. Half a century later, the Germans had learned modern nation-state management, and bested the French. By world war I, the Germans would even be more powerful than the mighty British Empire. The rise of Germany is always worth studying about and changed the course of modern history.

[colindaniels]

Also to point out:

It wasn't Bismarck's idea to annex Alsace-Lorraine, but rather the army's.

Bismarck knew it would really piss France off something fierce and he was right as it necessitated putting together a system of alliances to isolate France

[gustafa.grundgens]

The founder of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck was always spelled with ck at the end.
The Palatinate north of Alsace was Bavarian, not Prussian from 1815 on and thus not part of the North German Confederation.