Franco Prussian War: The War that Made Germany

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Helmuth von Moltke was a brilliant soldier who nobody talks about, and it's unfortunate. He did far more than military strategy, he single handedly wrote the book on modern mass transit in warfare.

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[economicerudite]

I think it's worth mentioning that Prussia, a proud Kingdom given their history (still in living memory to many) of Frederick the Great, got absolutely humiliated by Napoleon in 1806. Because of this (once all of Europe combined had put down Napoleon), the Prussians severely improved their military capabilities. As well as a bunch of reforms, one of the major things they did was adapt their officer schools. They began studying Clausewitz (who wrote his famous treatise during the Napoleonic Wars) and, perhaps more importantly, Jomini (one of Napoleon's staff who analysed how Napoleon was so successful). Essentially, they began learning from the French victories in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. This is, btw, why but the Schlieffen Plan on paper, and also the Bewegungskrieg used in the Second World War (this time to success) were so similar to Napoleonic tactics. There's something poetic, I think, about Prussia using Napoleon's own strategies against France and Napoleon's own descendant in the Franco-Prussian War.

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The night after the Battle of Sedan, Bismarck gave a toast to the unification of Germany, but he did it in English. The reason why was who he was with: they were all on horseback, and it was Bismarck, his nephew (who was also bilingual, and brought the bourbon), and the man who couldn't speak German: US general Philip Sheridan, famous from his work in the Civil War that had wrapped up six years earlier, there as an observer.

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literally like 4 days ago i was thinking about the franco prussian war and how there’s only a handle of channels i enjoy watching that have good vids on it. then simon out of knowwhere drops this??? Amazing