Franco-Prussian War
Americannoun
noun
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Even before World War I and II, war had ravaged the European continent, from the Napoleonic Wars to the Franco-Prussian War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
In a sign of his patriotism, he volunteered for the National Guard during the Franco-Prussian War before assuming the directorship of the Paris Conservatory in 1871.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
It is one of the strongest images we have from the 1870 siege of Paris, which occurred during the Franco-Prussian War.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2021
It not only called for rapid mobilization, but it required the German military to defeat the French military at an even more rapid pace had the Prussian forces forty years earlier in the Franco-Prussian War.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
First Division reached the hills overlooking Sedan, then moved aside to allow the French Army the honor of capturing the city, the site of a French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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