A Summary of European History From 1815 to 1914 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Summary of European History From 1815 to 1914Bismarck ruled Without consulting the insignificant Land tag, or parliament, of Prussia, saying, The unity of Ger many is not to be brought about by speeches nor by votes of majorities, but by iron and blood. In 1864, Bismarck in alliance with Austria fought a. War with Denmark, in order to obtain the two duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. As Queen Victoria was pro-german, England did not inter fere, and by this easy victory schleswig-holstein passed to German control, at Kiel, the seaport of schleswig-hol stein, a German naval base was later established, which with the Kiel Canal to the North Sea. Put the Baltic Sea under German domination. Bismarck now worked to begin a war with Austria, and in 1866, in alliance with Italy, he fought the Seven Weeks' War, in which Austria was utterly defeated at the decisive battle of Sadowa, or Koniggratz, in Bohemia. As a. Result, Austria was excluded from Ger many and schleswig-holstein became exclusively German territory. Bismarck next, in 1867, formed the North Ger man Confederation, a union of twenty-two German States under the presidency of Prussia.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.