Franco-Prussian War

Video Software we use: https://amzn.to/2KpdCQF Ad-free videos. You can support us by purchasing something through our Amazon-Url, thanks :) The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War , often referred to in France as the War of 1870 , was a conflict between the Second French Empire of Napoleon III and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.The conflict was caused by Prussian ambitions to extend German unification and French fears of the shift in the European balance of power that would result if the Prussians succeeded.Some historians argue that the Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck deliberately provoked a French attack in order to draw the southern German states—Baden, Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse-Darmstadt—into an alliance with the North German Confederation dominated by Prussia, while others contend that Bismarck did not plan anything and merely exploited the circumstances as they unfolded.On 16 July 1870, the French parliament voted to declare war on the German Kingdom of Prussia and hostilities began three days later. ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- About the author(s): User:52 Pickup License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 (CC BY-SA 2.5) License Url: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 Author(s): User:52 Pickup (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:52_Pickup) ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- This channel is dedicated to make Wikipedia, one of the biggest knowledge databases in the world available to people with limited vision. Article available under a Creative Commons license Image source in video