Cavalry's Effectiveness in Franco-Prussian War; TIMES'S Article. ... PROWESS OF THE GERMAN CAVALRY AND THE HORSE ARTILLERY IN THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR. Share full article. Oct. 20, 1889.

Although the six-month Franco-Prussian War was among the shortest of all major European conflicts, it brought Dietrich and his comrades sights that robbed them of any temptation to triumphalism.

In the 1870s, Otto von Bismarck—worried that France would reconstitute itself as a monarchy after its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War—“engineered crises” to “spook French elites and ...

SEPTEMBER 2 1ST, 1870: Modern war reporting is usually dated from Irish journalist William Russell’s reports for the Times from… ...

During the Franco-Prussian War and the ensuing civil war, many artists fled to other French cities or London. However, artists Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, and a few others stayed ...