Some extra Information: For centuries Austria was considered the leader of the German states and the Habsburg Family controlled the Emperorship of the Formal Holy Roman Empire. Another German state, Prussia became increasingly powerful and by the late 18th century was ranked as one of the great powers of Europe and started to contest Austria's supremacy in Germany. As nationalism increased in Europe, a powerful aim of most German nationalists was the gathering of all Germans under one state. Some possibilities existed. One including Austria, and one excluding Austria. The Prussian Prime Minister, Otto Von Bismarck opted to not impose harsh terms against the Austrian Empire, so they can become allies in the future. After the German Unification there will still be rivalry between Germany and Austria, but they were allies in World War 1. There were also other major battles that we didn’t cover in this video and also the Italian participation was very important. To not make this video very long we tried to focus on the major events and on the most important battle of the war.
@@commentbellow8185 Anytime! That's one of the reasons why I love these channels. It's great opportunity to give book recommendations on the subject if someone would like to take a more in depth look at the topic.
@@commentbellow8185 Social Media for the most part is bad. But the history community is pretty good. And the history community is almost exclusively to the right Politically. So we avoid all the Leftist Crap that plagues social media.
I live in north-east of Czech republic. Almost everywhere around you can see 1866 crosses. Under my small 5k town lies 50 000 soldiers. Just because Austrian general didn't listen to retreat command and sent his man in small groups against prussians. Horror.
@@andreikier At that time , we were under austria, so czechs fought for them because we had to, we didn't want to. ( In WWI Czechs often ran to Russians and created legions.) I would say Czechs always hated Austrians/Germans but after 40 years of communism more people hate Russians. I think now it´s friendly, there is no reson to hate them now. if you´re asking about army- after WWII they signed Austrian State Treaty en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_State_Treaty so now they should be neutral.
@@ondrejsatny5919 Many Czechs didn’t actually hate Austria. That is a myth that people believe about the Austrian empire. Many ethnicities did not believe in nationalism and actually embraced a unified country.
Although my country has been part of Austrian empire till the end of WW1 and we've learned about this, I still managed to learn a lot In almost 11 minutes.. Great video!
It's because there's always that confusion between German and Germanic, when Austrians say they aren't German it's just a matter of nationality, they just want to distinguish themselves from German citizens. They aren't denying they are Germanic.
@@amirudinadnan7024 You miss the Anschluss. Are you serious? And yeah, we don’t consider ourself german because we have another culture, history and dialect as Germany, even though everyone knows that we are ethnically german. But even when we would be part of Germany like Bavaria, most of us would feel more like an Austrian. Many bavarians don’t feel german and many germans don’t feel like it belongs to Germany. What I wanna say is that the „Entnazifizierung“ was an extremely important thing, but we would still feel Austrian without it
@@xenotypos germanic =/= german. Germanics also a counts for scandinavia netherlands etc, austrians felt they were ethnically german and nowadays an austrian would get annoyed if you called them german
Bismarck singlehandedly ensured that France will become Germany's enemy in next global conflict and Germany's expansion in his reign lead to eventual creation of Entente. He was only lucky to be kicked out by Wilhelm 2 before Germany faced consequences of his mistakes. German Empire's days were counted the day Rheinland was annexed
@@thewingedone1172 not exactly. Bismarck always made sure to keep russia as an ally to prevent russia becoming an enemy. But wilhelm 2 decided he knew better than bismarck and the rest is history
And it was because of Wilhelm I that Germany took Alsace from France. Bismarck was aware that France will seek revenge after this. But to be fair, he wasn't protesting much against Wilhelm's idea. He as well wanted to weaken France.
@@costamcostam8961 Bismarck should have persuaded Wilhelm to ask for some colonies instead. France probably would have given up West Africa rather than Alsace-Lorraine. If the colonies weren't profitable, they could always be sold.
@@MrAsullivan12 this is not quite true. Bismarks diplomacy was different for different times. While German Empire was forming while it was just Prussia Bismark was seeking allies everywhere including Russia. After victory over France Bismark not needed Russia any more and signed alliance with Austro-Hungarian empire which had a quarrel with Russia over Balkans. Also at Berlin congress (1878) Bismark supported Austrian aims, not Russian and Bulgarian. Three emperors conference was just pocket sand into Russian eyes. Bismark also believed that it was important for Germany to weaken France and safe Austria stable. in 1866 Bismark refused military staff (Prussian) and Italian voices for pressing further into Austria and crush it, with possibility of creating the Grossdeutschland and freeing Trentino and Trieste for Italy. Also he refused any initiative to invade Austria again. So Germany anyway would at least take Metz-Strasbourg area from France and anyway become enemy with Russia. Also it would be fair to say that fortresses on Franco-German border were important for protection of Germany in future. If France saved control over all of them it would be a perfect stance for new Franco-German war. Bismarks late diplomacy was a pretext for WW1, even if Alsace was not taken it would only slow down creation of Entente. I believe WW1 could be successful for Germany only if Bismark did isolate Austria instead of supporting it.
@@USSFFRU Bismarck also said to kaiser Wilhelm II this: "Your majesty, so long as you have this present officer corps, you can do as you please. But when this is no longer the case, it will be very different for you. The crash will come 20 years after my departure if things go on like this." Bismarck died in 1898. 20 years later, German monarchy collapsed.
@@andatwsk2810 Sir you have been found being involved in anti German things we hearby Arrest you and sentence you to reduction of size and loss of your Empire now go get cringed
He had the huge advantage of fighting at home. The supplies lines for the coalition armies and old communications tools were ineffective to coordinate big differetents armies.
The Battle of Königgrätz (Sadowa), 3 July 1866, is especially interesting because it culminates in a situation we have seen throughout military history: last-minute reinforcements arriving and turning the tide of battle. A few examples are Towton (1461), Marengo (1800), Waterloo (1815), Antietam (1862), and The Wilderness (1864).
@Mr Storni Agreed. I really hate the (predominantly British-American) fixation on Waterloo. Napoleon was beaten at Leipzig by Russians, Prussians, Swedes and Austrians. Pretending that Britain came in to save Europe doesn't really make it true.
@@Chalk_I Prussia = Preußen in German originates from the Latin Borussia = nearby Russia. The name was originally used for the territory later known as "Eastern Prussia" with the capital of Königsberg. In 1701 the first Prussian King Friedrich I. took his crown as a King especially for this territory. The territory around Berlin was the Electorate of Brandenburg. Only after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 the name "Kingdom of Prussia" was used for the whole territory. So, yes, "Prussia" had to do with "Russia".
8:15 Anyone interested in this era needs to check out “The Fall of Eagles”, a 13-part BBC drama from 1974. Episode 2, “The English Princess", deals with von Bismarck (Curd Jürgens) and the building of the German Empire, and includes the scene describe here where von Bismarck threatens to jump out of a window!
@Safwaan yup. Two of my cousins who are brothers tried owning a house together with their wives. They got tired of each other, one moved out and left the other with the mortgage, and they’ve hated each other ever since lol. They’ll act nice until a family member has some sort of drama snd then the hatred cones up again.
First and foremost Prussia profited from the peace deals of Bismarck in 1870 when France declared war on Prussia. Austria stayed out of the war between France and Prussia. The southern German states (Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg, Hesse) were obliged to join Prussia against France as they had to sign defensive treaties with Prussia at the end of the Austro-Prussian War. This added a significant number of troops to the soldiers mobilized by Prussia and its allies of the North German confederation. Bavaria alone deployed around 100.000 soldiers for the war against France.
The Austrians wanted to join the Franco-Prussian war on the side of the French for payback against Prussia but by that time Austria became Austria-Hungary and the Hungarians wanted no part in the war so what the Austrians wanted got canceled out
Actually, Baden was pretty pro-Prussia, certainly compared to their southern neighbour-states. In the Austro-Prussian war, Baden's army was very intentionally blundering about and retreating from Prussia ... even as their southern comrades fought a relatively equal battle. Baden was particularly affected by the revolutionary waves of the mid-19th century. And Prussia helped them put the revolutionaries down.
The North German Confederation was no continuation of the German Confederation. It was not a loose assembly of independent states but a unified federal state. (And it did not contain Luxembourg and the Dutch province of Limburg.) In fact, the later German empire was nothing else but an extended version of the North German Confederation.
@i-mm-o res Austria has no reason for an army. They literally have no rivals, and none outside of Europe having any reason to rival them. Germany has NATO and works jointly with the US, as well as having a massive influence on the EU and becoming the most economically rich country in Europe. And no, Germany isn't weak, it has the 10th strongest military in the world. Not having much of a say in international affairs doesn't mean the countries are irrelevant, sure that means they don't call the big shots anymore, but they do work in close partnership with those that do, and have other ways of influencing the world. Plus, not having to put a massive focus on military means they can focus on cultural, economical, and technological development. A country can still be great, regardless of international relevancy or not.
@@purpleteaisme "Austria has no army, Germany a week one. USA,UK,France,Russia and China lately have the last say in critical international affairs and negotiations. Austria is almost irrelevant internationally... These are the cruel rules, the winners take it all." I'm to believe I read it and understood it perfectly, and replied accordingly. What is it here that I am not understanding?
Very nice video, never heard of that conflict, now we need the follow up war, the war of 1870 between Franc, Prussia an its allies, that led to the Germany unification.
Actually, from what I've read, Austria (or at least their allies) didn't exactly want a fully unified Germany, but either to preserve the German Confederation or go to a system somewhat like the former Holy Roman Empire. There was very little if any chance non-German peoples would be wanted in a truly unified German state, and Franz Joseph was determined to hold onto Hungary, the Czechs and some of the Balkans. Prussia was determined to go full unified German state, and thus this war became inevitable. The video sadly left out some CRUCIAL details. The "German Question" honestly reminds me some of America's struggle (strong centralized nation or loose union of states).
I dont think it would exist. Austria was interested in dominating over German cities but not in unifying them. If Prussia lost this war than what? I believe local nationalism would evolve also concerns about self-defence would grow for German states, so some smaller states would unify creating more big states like Bavaria and Prussia. Maybe France would make real project of South Germany (Baden and Wurtemberg united with Bavaria). So Germany would be split between North German state(under Prussia) and South Germany(under Bavaria). Without Prussia as unifier Germany would never unite. BTW there are also was religious difference Austria and especially royal court was deeply catholic while in German states protestantism was strong even in Bavaria were areas with domination of protestantism.
While the territory of Saxony was indeed occupied by Prussia, the whole Saxon Army linked up with the Austrian Army of the North and fought in almost every battle in the Bohemian theatre. I believe this could be called real support.
for a continent so big that had constant fights and wars in almost every region of it for centuries. I think we should have formulated it differently lol. Thanks for watching!
That's kind of a difficult topic. The thing is, what would traditionally be considered europe would be a fairly small continent, but on the other hand, europe geographically speaking isn't an independent continent. Eurasia is. And eurasia is the biggest of the bunch, so depending on the definitions and semantics, europe is both the smallest and the biggest continent.
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Since Austria didn't become part of a unified Germany due to animosity / rivalry with Prussia, it is somewhat understandable that a pan-German like Austrian politician A.H. wished to correct what he viewed as a "historical error" by annexing Austria during the "Anschluss". Furthermore it's odd / interesting to see several fairly large isolated Prussian enclaves spread across what is now Germany, including a pretty big one along the Eastern border of the Netherlands (Where I live). My dad told me that when he was young, elderly Dutch people would still refer to Germans across the border as "the Prussians", not Germans.
Austria didn't want to be part of a german national state, because Austria was an empire and would have had to give up their non-german holdings, most prominently the entirety of Hungary by such a move. Also the conflict over which of the two would rule a german national state was basically decided here. Austria lost that to Prussia and would never join unter prussian rule. It would have been just as that vice versa if the Austrians had won.
@@MarcDufresneosorusrex Hohenzollern (Prussia)vs. Habsburg(Austria-Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Lorraine...) The Staufer (Hohenstaufen) were medieval holy roman emperrors (Friedrich Barbarossa etc.). But Nobility gets extremely convoluted extremely quickly. Edit: The Austrian Habsburgs Problem was, that Germany wanted to unite under a national State, guided by the idea of nationalism. The Habsburgs were still pretty spread out, across different holdings that were now understood as different nations. Hungary or the Balkans would not have been part of a german national state, but that was more than half of the Austro-Hungarian state. A german national state under prussian supremacy would be unthinkable for that reason. And of course for the reason that the Habsburgs were a multinational house that between them ruled half of Europe(Spain, Portugal, at times Belgium i think and so on). The biggest and mightiest and highest(in their eyes) Noble house and dynasty would never accept a comparatively local house like the Hohenzollern to rule over a Habsburg regent. That was also unacceptable.
That big enclave bordering the Netherlands was called The Rhineland and was arguably the biggest asset of Prussia - it is rich in natural resources and heavily industrialised. Even today most of Germany's industry is concentrated there.
Well - it's Wilhelm, not Wilhem, the colour scheme yellow vs. orange is debatable, and there is no effort to pronounce the german names correctly - apart from that I agree.
@@freikorps9661 The idea of nationalism was introduced to Germany, Italy and almost everywhere else by France during the Napoleonic Wars. Before that, everybody was a subject of "Graf von Schwarzberg" or whoever.
@@NicolaW72 Yes, but that was much more important than people give it credit for. Kicking Austria out of the Germany meant, that Prussia will be the leading power of newly unified Germany and it will impose it's will on rest of the German countries. That's why the 2nd Reich was pretty much glorified Prussia.
This war was the final nail on muzzle loaders' coffin, Austria's generals had refused to adopt a breech loading rifle for logistical motives (!), after this war there was an hurry of most HQ to adopt a breech loading rifle, also if some , swiss, brits and italians were on the way (British army had bought some thousands of Sharpe's carabines for their cavalry)
@Абдульзефир Yes, but the french before the war of 1870 adopted the Chassepot and the British first the Snyder system as stop gap, then the Martini Henry (Zulu's rifle) , in Italy f.e. the Vatican's army had the Remington Rolling block, employed succesfully against Garibaldi' s patriots at Mentana (1867)
@@MarcDufresneosorusrex The ACW was fought with muzzle loading muskets, but in the Union army some units, such as Berdan's Sharpshooters, had Sharpe breechloading rifles, some NG units also adopted breechloading ones or Spencer repeaters, at the end of the war all the Union cavalry had breechloading carabines or Spencer repeaters.
Not if you just count the landscape, but when Im correct, it was, if you count the population (at least back then, today Asia is the nuber one continent in both).
@@florianb2856 In 1850, Asia already had just under three times the population of Europe if you include all of Russia's population as European. Europe was #2, some 100 million ahead of Africa. But the intro talks about features like borders, not people.
@@letoubib21 Us non-Germans do not have umlauts on our keyboard, making typing it correctly a huge pain in the ass. Please forgive us if we're not able to type it correctly.
@@letoubib21 You Tube changes things automatically. I had initially spelled it correctly. I have been using a tablet for about five years, and probably use it such that I do not test it's potential.
Defeating Italians was never more than a side hustle for Austria. Even in WW1 when both their hands where tied in the balkans and Russia, Austria managed to defeat Italian offensives, while being heavily outnumbered. Austria also had the upper hand in the naval controll over the adriatic. Imagine that, Austria being a noteworthy naval-power. LOL
@@etetepete Italy also had French & British naval support (while Austria had small German naval support), yet the European Entente Powers even needed American & Commonwealth support to finally defeat the Austrian navy (which was outnumbered & had fuel disadvantages but still was on the upper hand until the last war months) in 1918. At the Otranto Battle in 1917, much bigger Anglo-Franco-Italian fleets lost several ships to the vastly outnumbered Austrians. And aside from the battle of Lissa, the Austrian navy also played a role in the 2nd Ottoman-Egyptian War under Archduke Friedrich - defeating the Egyptian forces. So yeah, Austria was actually an effective naval power until 1918.
@@vincenzochianese9378 Never by Italy, by Germany in the backstab of the "third Italian independence war" and by France and Britain in the great war, even though your ancestors backstabbed us there aswell. But hey, just give us back Südtirol, you can keep Trentino, and we're done with that story. Ciao!
@@dragosstanciu9866 The Austrians were still the prestigious group that was more influential than the other groups. It wasn't until the Hungarian rebellion that the Austrians gave some cessions to the larger ethnic groups. But even then, that wasn't enough to completely stop the instability, merely halt it.
It´s indeed the (Czech) name of the city. In Germany it´s known under its German name: Königgrätz. And in Austria the battle is known as the battle of Sadova.
You can imagine the reaction in France when they got Venice from Austria: French official: "Sire,did we order a Venice?" Napoleon III: " No,we ordered a Belgium and a Luxembourg, but no Venice." French official: "What should we do with it?" Napoleon III: "Give it to Italy, they need it to complete the set."
2 mistakes the Habsburgs made: picking a fight with Prussia in 1866 when Italy was also prepared to do a stab in the back and no there Power was willing to help Austria, and 2 the German alliance. The emperor should have listened to his family and not ordered mobilization against Serbia in 1914. He should have fired Hotzendorf and dealt with the death of the Archduke directly with the King of Serbia. The emperor didn't even like his nephew. The Dual Monarchy was not prepared for war. 50 million vs the 165 million Russian steam roller even with German help. Italy did a stab-in-back in May 1915 even though 1 million men were already dead and the Italian parliament voted 408 to 111 to remain neutral in M
Austria did still use the same weapons sold to Americans for their Civil War that ended in previous year. Prussia did find an opportunity to test a new infantry weapon--Dreyse Breechloader Rifle. and proven that Breechloaders were teh 'future'.
Did the narrator just pronounce Wilhelm Veal-helm or was that just me hearing it like that. Anyway great video, this war needs to be covered more. It’s actually such an important war for Europe.
9:33. How is that handy, Germany was pulled in WWI by Austria-Hungary, lost, and that loss laid the foundation of WW2, which they lost even harder. Without the German-Austrian alliance we might not have had 2 world wars, or at least not 2 such brutal ones. Not putting blame for the wars solely on one side here btw, just tinkering a little bit.
"germany was pulled in wwi by austria-hungary" no, germany was brought into the war by germany. they're the ones who declared war on russia, france and belgium, the latter action bringing the uk into the war. they thought they were tough and challenged everyone to war... then they did it again in ww2, and lost harder.
@@derps8690 Germany wasn’t the only country that wanted war. France especially wanted war to get back Alsace Lorraine. And Britain and France were scared of Germany’s growing power. Both Austria and Russia wanted more influence in the balkans. And Germany was scared of Russias growing power. In the end, it was Germany who struck first, though war would’ve happened whether the Germans started it or not
Denmark not claiming Holstein would probably not make a unified Germany to form by the 1800s. This was the nail on the coffin for the Austrian Empire, Austria's great power status was yeeted from this war.
Nice to hear about this battle. One of my ancestors fought in this war. He was lieutenant in the Prussian army and fought in Königsgrätz. I just found his certificate for a medal xD.
Agreed, some people would say Ancient Rome, the crusades, the French Revolution or Napoleonic era, I would say the turn of the 19th century in Europe right before and immediately following 1848 revolution till the dawn of 20th century till onset of WWI is my favorite because the stakes were higher amongst the European nation states and Europe as a continent became more civilized and diplomatic in its disputes with one another as time progressed. I would even argue the politics of this period was equally as interesting as the many subsequent wars that were fought on the continent by extension. Men like Bismarck, The Kaiser, Emp. Franz Joseph, Napoleon III, Victor Emmanuel II were fascinating figures each to be sure.
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Some extra Information: For centuries Austria was considered the leader of the German states and the Habsburg Family controlled the Emperorship of the Formal Holy Roman Empire.
Another German state, Prussia became increasingly powerful and by the late 18th century was ranked as one of the great powers of Europe and started to contest Austria's supremacy in Germany.
As nationalism increased in Europe, a powerful aim of most German nationalists was the gathering of all Germans under one state.
Some possibilities existed. One including Austria, and one excluding Austria.
The Prussian Prime Minister, Otto Von Bismarck opted to not impose harsh terms against the Austrian Empire, so they can become allies in the future. After the German Unification there will still be rivalry between Germany and Austria, but they were allies in World War 1.
There were also other major battles that we didn’t cover in this video and also the Italian participation was very important. To not make this video very long we tried to focus on the major events and on the most important battle of the war.
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I'm sorry , *THIS* is boring 🙄 . Could only sit through it till 1:00 of video timeline. 😓
Very nice 👍
Maybe you should state history correctly? The Danish started the war rather foolishly.
I just watch a video about that and you upload wow.
a couple decades later:
Bismarck: I'm going to jump
Kaiser Wilhelm II: Do a flip!
Damnit Billy respect your elders!
a couple decades later:
Kaiser Wilhelm II: I'll do a flip - look mom, no hands!
*directed by robert b weide
so true, hahaz!!
Most important part of history
That Bismarck guy is incompetent lol
Bismark really knew how to make peace. Sometimes this is just as important as knowing how to win wars.
Know when to hold, know when to fold, said Kenny Rogers...
Indeed, if the French had not imposed such harsh terms to Germany at the end of the ww1 probably there wouldn't be a ww2.
@@emamag6455 the terms were too lenient mate. Germans imposed much harsher terms on their crushed enemies and nobody talks about it.
@@actin9294 anyways
@@ItsClout_ what
A good book that covers this topic is "The Pursuit of Power. Europe 1815-1914."
That book is some beautiful literature
Thanks for this suggestion. I will look it up.
People say social media is all bad but I have learned a lot.
@@commentbellow8185 Anytime! That's one of the reasons why I love these channels. It's great opportunity to give book recommendations on the subject if someone would like to take a more in depth look at the topic.
@@commentbellow8185 Social Media for the most part is bad. But the history community is pretty good. And the history community is almost exclusively to the right Politically. So we avoid all the Leftist Crap that plagues social media.
@@VenomousSpyro lol
I live in north-east of Czech republic. Almost everywhere around you can see 1866 crosses. Under my small 5k town lies 50 000 soldiers. Just because Austrian general didn't listen to retreat command and sent his man in small groups against prussians. Horror.
Do today's Czechs side with Austria?
damn, that a lot of space for 5k town
@@andreikier At that time , we were under austria, so czechs fought for them because we had to, we didn't want to. ( In WWI Czechs often ran to Russians and created legions.) I would say Czechs always hated Austrians/Germans but after 40 years of communism more people hate Russians. I think now it´s friendly, there is no reson to hate them now. if you´re asking about army- after WWII they signed Austrian State Treaty en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_State_Treaty so now they should be neutral.
@@ondrejsatny5919 Many Czechs didn’t actually hate Austria. That is a myth that people believe about the Austrian empire. Many ethnicities did not believe in nationalism and actually embraced a unified country.
@@andreikier What do you mean by "side"?:)
Although my country has been part of Austrian empire till the end of WW1 and we've learned about this, I still managed to learn a lot In almost 11 minutes.. Great video!
What country are you from?
@@geocritic3577 Czech Republic
@@magmanek1508 nice
@@magmanek1508 so you hatte Germans
@@stevensamuels4041 Czechs don't hate Germans
Austria ruled German states for centuries.
Austria today: we're not German.
After WW2 they didn’t want to be german anymore 😂🙈
It's because there's always that confusion between German and Germanic, when Austrians say they aren't German it's just a matter of nationality, they just want to distinguish themselves from German citizens.
They aren't denying they are Germanic.
@@xenotypos Nowadays Deutsch means of German nationality but especially before WW2 I feel like it meant Germanic.
@@amirudinadnan7024 You miss the Anschluss. Are you serious? And yeah, we don’t consider ourself german because we have another culture, history and dialect as Germany, even though everyone knows that we are ethnically german. But even when we would be part of Germany like Bavaria, most of us would feel more like an Austrian. Many bavarians don’t feel german and many germans don’t feel like it belongs to Germany. What I wanna say is that the „Entnazifizierung“ was an extremely important thing, but we would still feel Austrian without it
@@xenotypos germanic =/= german. Germanics also a counts for scandinavia netherlands etc, austrians felt they were ethnically german and nowadays an austrian would get annoyed if you called them german
"It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians"
- Bertolt Brecht
@@godlovesyou1995 How so?
@@Threezi04 sorry, i misread the meaning/ tone of the words
Based
do you know the original version which is presumably in german?
And! quote... Its not a crime robbing a bank; its a crime starting one !
Bismarck was the greatest diplomat to ever live. The amount of foresight he had is astonishing
Bismarck singlehandedly ensured that France will become Germany's enemy in next global conflict and Germany's expansion in his reign lead to eventual creation of Entente. He was only lucky to be kicked out by Wilhelm 2 before Germany faced consequences of his mistakes. German Empire's days were counted the day Rheinland was annexed
@@thewingedone1172 not exactly. Bismarck always made sure to keep russia as an ally to prevent russia becoming an enemy. But wilhelm 2 decided he knew better than bismarck and the rest is history
And it was because of Wilhelm I that Germany took Alsace from France. Bismarck was aware that France will seek revenge after this. But to be fair, he wasn't protesting much against Wilhelm's idea. He as well wanted to weaken France.
@@costamcostam8961 Bismarck should have persuaded Wilhelm to ask for some colonies instead. France probably would have given up West Africa rather than Alsace-Lorraine. If the colonies weren't profitable, they could always be sold.
@@MrAsullivan12 this is not quite true. Bismarks diplomacy was different for different times. While German Empire was forming while it was just Prussia Bismark was seeking allies everywhere including Russia. After victory over France Bismark not needed Russia any more and signed alliance with Austro-Hungarian empire which had a quarrel with Russia over Balkans. Also at Berlin congress (1878) Bismark supported Austrian aims, not Russian and Bulgarian. Three emperors conference was just pocket sand into Russian eyes.
Bismark also believed that it was important for Germany to weaken France and safe Austria stable. in 1866 Bismark refused military staff (Prussian) and Italian voices for pressing further into Austria and crush it, with possibility of creating the Grossdeutschland and freeing Trentino and Trieste for Italy. Also he refused any initiative to invade Austria again. So Germany anyway would at least take Metz-Strasbourg area from France and anyway become enemy with Russia.
Also it would be fair to say that fortresses on Franco-German border were important for protection of Germany in future. If France saved control over all of them it would be a perfect stance for new Franco-German war. Bismarks late diplomacy was a pretext for WW1, even if Alsace was not taken it would only slow down creation of Entente.
I believe WW1 could be successful for Germany only if Bismark did isolate Austria instead of supporting it.
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.
- Otto von Bismarck
Did Bismarck really say that? If he did, then he predicted WW1
@@USSFFRU Bismarck also said to kaiser Wilhelm II this: "Your majesty, so long as you have this present officer corps, you can do as you please. But when this is no longer the case, it will be very different for you. The crash will come 20 years after my departure if things go on like this."
Bismarck died in 1898. 20 years later, German monarchy collapsed.
@@primkup Bismarck was a great general, but knew the future, jeez.
@Shadow Reptile it sucks no one would follow Bismarck's footsteps in the 1900s.
@@USSFFRU Not general, politician. But yes, he was pretty good.
Ah the brother's war. One to remember.
One not to remember, atleast for me
@@andatwsk2810 *shut german*
@@andatwsk2810 Sir you have been found being involved in anti German things we hearby Arrest you and sentence you to reduction of size and loss of your Empire now go get cringed
@@sadiqahmed4143 I will consider myself german only after the prussian are gone
@@andatwsk2810 it’s a shame those pigs from Prussia United Germany instead of you
Frederick The Great, the only German who defeated the world powers by himself.
Laughing as a french
He had the huge advantage of fighting at home. The supplies lines for the coalition armies and old communications tools were ineffective to coordinate big differetents armies.
Lucky for him there wans’t a small angry Austrian guy who tried right?… right?
>the world
You know africans and asians are part of this "world" of yours, bigot
lmao only cuz peter iii was a prussian fanboy
The Battle of Königgrätz (Sadowa), 3 July 1866, is especially interesting because it culminates in a situation we have seen throughout military history: last-minute reinforcements arriving and turning the tide of battle. A few examples are Towton (1461), Marengo (1800), Waterloo (1815), Antietam (1862), and The Wilderness (1864).
@Mr Storni Agreed. I really hate the (predominantly British-American) fixation on Waterloo.
Napoleon was beaten at Leipzig by Russians, Prussians, Swedes and Austrians.
Pretending that Britain came in to save Europe doesn't really make it true.
Prussia : Italy what did you do in this war?
Italy: that's the neat part, I didn't
Interesting that Italy actually vowed Prussia to continue the war so they could take Trentino and Trieste. Bismark refused.
LMFAO
Except it entered Trentino
The video is finally here, thank you knowledgia
Prussia is such a kickass name for a country or maybe it's badass IDK
yeah adding a P in Russia is pretty cool ngl
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Too bad they didn't add a C or a K, they could have been Krussia
@@Chalk_I Prussia = Preußen in German originates from the Latin Borussia = nearby Russia. The name was originally used for the territory later known as "Eastern Prussia" with the capital of Königsberg. In 1701 the first Prussian King Friedrich I. took his crown as a King especially for this territory. The territory around Berlin was the Electorate of Brandenburg. Only after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 the name "Kingdom of Prussia" was used for the whole territory. So, yes, "Prussia" had to do with "Russia".
P(lus) + Russia = Prussia
8:15 Anyone interested in this era needs to check out “The Fall of Eagles”, a 13-part BBC drama from 1974. Episode 2, “The English Princess", deals with von Bismarck (Curd Jürgens) and the building of the German Empire, and includes the scene describe here where von Bismarck threatens to jump out of a window!
Holy moly what a good episode
God, it sounds like 2 brothers who could not get along in their adult years and always got into a fist fight at summer family picnics lol.
@Safwaan I've actually seen that happen!
@Safwaan yup. Two of my cousins who are brothers tried owning a house together with their wives. They got tired of each other, one moved out and left the other with the mortgage, and they’ve hated each other ever since lol.
They’ll act nice until a family member has some sort of drama snd then the hatred cones up again.
8:13 Bismarck being Bismarck
First and foremost Prussia profited from the peace deals of Bismarck in 1870 when France declared war on Prussia.
Austria stayed out of the war between France and Prussia.
The southern German states (Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg, Hesse) were obliged to join Prussia against France as they had to sign defensive treaties with Prussia at the end of the Austro-Prussian War. This added a significant number of troops to the soldiers mobilized by Prussia and its allies of the North German confederation.
Bavaria alone deployed around 100.000 soldiers for the war against France.
The Austrians wanted to join the Franco-Prussian war on the side of the French for payback against Prussia but by that time Austria became Austria-Hungary and the Hungarians wanted no part in the war so what the Austrians wanted got canceled out
Actually, Baden was pretty pro-Prussia, certainly compared to their southern neighbour-states.
In the Austro-Prussian war, Baden's army was very intentionally blundering about and retreating from Prussia ... even as their southern comrades fought a relatively equal battle.
Baden was particularly affected by the revolutionary waves of the mid-19th century. And Prussia helped them put the revolutionaries down.
The North German Confederation was no continuation of the German Confederation. It was not a loose assembly of independent states but a unified federal state. (And it did not contain Luxembourg and the Dutch province of Limburg.) In fact, the later German empire was nothing else but an extended version of the North German Confederation.
Korrekt
*Loads up Victoria 2*
Ah shit here we go again
Play eu4 then Vic 2 so good same with ck
What your récord of forming Germany?
@@uolboi5028 i have almost 3k hours on eu4
@@alexanderraz. late 1860s im not that good at the game
@@yourlocalt72 ja
it’s funny how these 3 nations would become allies less than 100 years later
2. Italy didn't stay allied to them for long. And then 25 years later, Italy would again not stayed allied for very long. xD
@i-mm-o res everyone lost
@i-mm-o res Austria has no reason for an army. They literally have no rivals, and none outside of Europe having any reason to rival them. Germany has NATO and works jointly with the US, as well as having a massive influence on the EU and becoming the most economically rich country in Europe. And no, Germany isn't weak, it has the 10th strongest military in the world.
Not having much of a say in international affairs doesn't mean the countries are irrelevant, sure that means they don't call the big shots anymore, but they do work in close partnership with those that do, and have other ways of influencing the world. Plus, not having to put a massive focus on military means they can focus on cultural, economical, and technological development. A country can still be great, regardless of international relevancy or not.
@@terrypennington2519 You clearly misunderstood what he said, please reread it more clearly now.
Also, Austria do have a military.
@@purpleteaisme "Austria has no army, Germany a week one. USA,UK,France,Russia and China lately have the last say in critical international affairs and negotiations. Austria is almost irrelevant internationally... These are the cruel rules, the winners take it all."
I'm to believe I read it and understood it perfectly, and replied accordingly. What is it here that I am not understanding?
Very nice video, never heard of that conflict, now we need the follow up war, the war of 1870 between Franc, Prussia an its allies, that led to the Germany unification.
Imagine a world where Austria unified Germany. I wonder how that would change the world
Actually, from what I've read, Austria (or at least their allies) didn't exactly want a fully unified Germany, but either to preserve the German Confederation or go to a system somewhat like the former Holy Roman Empire. There was very little if any chance non-German peoples would be wanted in a truly unified German state, and Franz Joseph was determined to hold onto Hungary, the Czechs and some of the Balkans. Prussia was determined to go full unified German state, and thus this war became inevitable. The video sadly left out some CRUCIAL details. The "German Question" honestly reminds me some of America's struggle (strong centralized nation or loose union of states).
I dont think it would exist. Austria was interested in dominating over German cities but not in unifying them. If Prussia lost this war than what? I believe local nationalism would evolve also concerns about self-defence would grow for German states, so some smaller states would unify creating more big states like Bavaria and Prussia. Maybe France would make real project of South Germany (Baden and Wurtemberg united with Bavaria). So Germany would be split between North German state(under Prussia) and South Germany(under Bavaria).
Without Prussia as unifier Germany would never unite.
BTW there are also was religious difference Austria and especially royal court was deeply catholic while in German states protestantism was strong even in Bavaria were areas with domination of protestantism.
Read the holy Roman Empire by a Chinese historian author. It is an historical self insert into Emperor Franz in his effort to recreate the hre.
Well a certain guy with a mustache from Austria did Unify Germany lol
Needle gun was the invention that tipped the balance of power.
And doctrine
Amazing History... Thanks!
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I wish it was from this...
Kings and Generals has an excellent video that focuses more on the battle of Königgratz. It is a good video to watch after this.
While the territory of Saxony was indeed occupied by Prussia, the whole Saxon Army linked up with the Austrian Army of the North and fought in almost every battle in the Bohemian theatre. I believe this could be called real support.
Thank you for the super straight forward title.
>for a continent so big
>literally the smallest besides Australia (but yeah, it's big from a personal perspective regardless)
for a continent so big that had constant fights and wars in almost every region of it for centuries. I think we should have formulated it differently lol. Thanks for watching!
It’s literally the biggest continent. The Americas are the second biggest, Antarctica is the third biggest, and Australia is the smallest.
@rahul Dio yes it is
@rahul Dio did you just asume its gender?
That's kind of a difficult topic. The thing is, what would traditionally be considered europe would be a fairly small continent, but on the other hand, europe geographically speaking isn't an independent continent. Eurasia is. And eurasia is the biggest of the bunch, so depending on the definitions and semantics, europe is both the smallest and the biggest continent.
Wow very nice video please bro keep it up this type of work in future. Your all videos are very nice. I get very knowledge from your videos. Your channel is the channel on you tube
Man this should be my social's teacher...
very cool explanations and animations. good work
Since Austria didn't become part of a unified Germany due to animosity / rivalry with Prussia, it is somewhat understandable that a pan-German like Austrian politician A.H. wished to correct what he viewed as a "historical error" by annexing Austria during the "Anschluss". Furthermore it's odd / interesting to see several fairly large isolated Prussian enclaves spread across what is now Germany, including a pretty big one along the Eastern border of the Netherlands (Where I live). My dad told me that when he was young, elderly Dutch people would still refer to Germans across the border as "the Prussians", not Germans.
Austria didn't want to be part of a german national state, because Austria was an empire and would have had to give up their non-german holdings, most prominently the entirety of Hungary by such a move. Also the conflict over which of the two would rule a german national state was basically decided here. Austria lost that to Prussia and would never join unter prussian rule. It would have been just as that vice versa if the Austrians had won.
@@tomitiustritus6672 ruled by different royal houses; I think Prussian royal home was HoheStaufen, Austria's was based (not Hohestaufen)?
@@MarcDufresneosorusrex Hohenzollern (Prussia)vs. Habsburg(Austria-Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Lorraine...)
The Staufer (Hohenstaufen) were medieval holy roman emperrors (Friedrich Barbarossa etc.). But Nobility gets extremely convoluted extremely quickly.
Edit: The Austrian Habsburgs Problem was, that Germany wanted to unite under a national State, guided by the idea of nationalism. The Habsburgs were still pretty spread out, across different holdings that were now understood as different nations. Hungary or the Balkans would not have been part of a german national state, but that was more than half of the Austro-Hungarian state. A german national state under prussian supremacy would be unthinkable for that reason. And of course for the reason that the Habsburgs were a multinational house that between them ruled half of Europe(Spain, Portugal, at times Belgium i think and so on). The biggest and mightiest and highest(in their eyes) Noble house and dynasty would never accept a comparatively local house like the Hohenzollern to rule over a Habsburg regent. That was also unacceptable.
@@tomitiustritus6672 thank you for this; i like to come back to my youtube comments for quick info : )
That big enclave bordering the Netherlands was called The Rhineland and was arguably the biggest asset of Prussia - it is rich in natural resources and heavily industrialised. Even today most of Germany's industry is concentrated there.
This is really well made. Thanks a lot!
Well - it's Wilhelm, not Wilhem, the colour scheme yellow vs. orange is debatable, and there is no effort to pronounce the german names correctly - apart from that I agree.
can you cover some medieval wars like the hundred years war please! :)
that would be a 100 minutes video
Please make more video about Prussian history
Germany was eventually unified because of continuously winning wars.
It didnt really unify, prussia conquered it all
@@godlovesyou1995 No. The German National Spirit was Born with the wars against denmark, Austria and especially france.
@@freikorps9661 The idea of nationalism was introduced to Germany, Italy and almost everywhere else by France during the Napoleonic Wars. Before that, everybody was a subject of "Graf von Schwarzberg" or whoever.
Sorry, no. The decision of 1866 was that Austria wouldn´t be part of a future Germany, not more or less.
@@NicolaW72 Yes, but that was much more important than people give it credit for. Kicking Austria out of the Germany meant, that Prussia will be the leading power of newly unified Germany and it will impose it's will on rest of the German countries. That's why the 2nd Reich was pretty much glorified Prussia.
This war was the final nail on muzzle loaders' coffin, Austria's generals had refused to adopt a breech loading rifle for logistical motives (!), after this war there was an hurry of most HQ to adopt a breech loading rifle, also if some , swiss, brits and italians were on the way (British army had bought some thousands of Sharpe's carabines for their cavalry)
@Абдульзефир Yes, but the french before the war of 1870 adopted the Chassepot and the British first the Snyder system as stop gap, then the Martini Henry (Zulu's rifle) , in Italy f.e. the Vatican's army had the Remington Rolling block, employed succesfully against Garibaldi' s patriots at Mentana (1867)
what's an example of breech loading rifle? is it American civil war ? was it used in conflict in Asia at all? thankyou very much
@Абдульзефир okay spasibo thanks (oh gosh , can you imagine fighting with those? that's crazy
@@MarcDufresneosorusrex The ACW was fought with muzzle loading muskets, but in the Union army some units, such as Berdan's Sharpshooters, had Sharpe breechloading rifles, some NG units also adopted breechloading ones or Spencer repeaters, at the end of the war all the Union cavalry had breechloading carabines or Spencer repeaters.
@@alessiodecarolis thank you; am reading on Simo Haya the sniper (history is amazing)
I generally agree with the opening statement except subsitute 'small' for 'big'. Europe is not a big continent compared to other continents.
Not if you just count the landscape, but when Im correct, it was, if you count the population (at least back then, today Asia is the nuber one continent in both).
@@florianb2856 In 1850, Asia already had just under three times the population of Europe if you include all of Russia's population as European. Europe was #2, some 100 million ahead of Africa. But the intro talks about features like borders, not people.
@@woodcojb Oh really? I didnt know. Thats interesting.
Excellent historic video from excellent historic channel with clear explaining of foes forces mobility thanks for sharing
This what I call the Austrian High Command in a Nutshell
Thank You 😊 extremely interesting 🧐!!
Thank you very much for this very informative video, which is indeed a lesson in history! :-)
An excellent video keep the good work up!
I am a German of Prussian descent and I am proud of it.
Im Czech from Konigratz 😊
Don't be, it's people like you who caused multitudes of unnecessary suffering in two world wars
@@davidson3658 I am rolf from dusseldorf
Awesome as always
Why at 1:25 does it show Saxe-Lauenburg as a part of Prussia when it wasn’t until after the second Schleswig war?
Lmao
Great video thank u keep up the videos
I would rather call in the "Brothers War"
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In Germany it is known as the "Deutsche Krieg" the German war. No mention of Austria or Prussia.
great video. loved it
2:20 When you keep building up your troops along each other's borders in a game if Risk, and you know things are gonna get wild
I really love your content,can you do a video about the Egyptian Ottoman wars of 1831-1833 and 1839-1841
I love this idea
@@mostafasherif2685 Really?
@@yousefshahin2654 yeah it's a great idea
@@mostafasherif2685 thanks, fellow Egyptian ;)
@@yousefshahin2654 my pleasure Mr. Yousef Shahin :)
Prussia actually did not demand much land from Austria since their war goal was to take their sphere instead
Spotted the Vic 2 player
Good video
Honor to the Prussians from Piedmont 🇮🇹❤️🇩🇪
Informative.
"With a continent so big" knowledgia
"It's the smallest continent in the world" atlas
-the smallest big continent*. Haha. Yeah, we should have formulated that differently. Thanks for watching!
@@Knowledgia please do one on the sikh empire
Oceania is smaller
@@Veriox22 it ain't Continent, it's just cluster of Islands across Pacific
@@MasonGreenWeed same thing. These islands do not belong to asia or any other continent so they are their own
I have a Medal for Konnigratz I found in an antique store rummage box in Vegas in the mid '90s.
@@letoubib21 Us non-Germans do not have umlauts on our keyboard, making typing it correctly a huge pain in the ass. Please forgive us if we're not able to type it correctly.
@@letoubib21 You Tube changes things automatically. I had initially spelled it correctly. I have been using a tablet for about five years, and probably use it such that I do not test it's potential.
You forgot that Austria defeated Italy in the naval-battle of Lissa and the battle of Custozza
Defeating Italians was never more than a side hustle for Austria. Even in WW1 when both their hands where tied in the balkans and Russia, Austria managed to defeat Italian offensives, while being heavily outnumbered. Austria also had the upper hand in the naval controll over the adriatic. Imagine that, Austria being a noteworthy naval-power. LOL
@@etetepete Italy also had French & British naval support (while Austria had small German naval support), yet the European Entente Powers even needed American & Commonwealth support to finally defeat the Austrian navy (which was outnumbered & had fuel disadvantages but still was on the upper hand until the last war months) in 1918. At the Otranto Battle in 1917, much bigger Anglo-Franco-Italian fleets lost several ships to the vastly outnumbered Austrians. And aside from the battle of Lissa, the Austrian navy also played a role in the 2nd Ottoman-Egyptian War under Archduke Friedrich - defeating the Egyptian forces. So yeah, Austria was actually an effective naval power until 1918.
@@etetepete And then Austria got crushed by Italy
@@vincenzochianese9378 Never by Italy, by Germany in the backstab of the "third Italian independence war" and by France and Britain in the great war, even though your ancestors backstabbed us there aswell. But hey, just give us back Südtirol, you can keep Trentino, and we're done with that story. Ciao!
@@etetepete Second Battle of the Piave River: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Piave_River
Yasssssss! Please do more videos on Prussia
War of the brothers nations.
The Austrian Empire was a conglomerate of nations, the Austrians were a minority.
@@dragosstanciu9866
The Austrians were still the prestigious group that was more influential than the other groups. It wasn't until the Hungarian rebellion that the Austrians gave some cessions to the larger ethnic groups. But even then, that wasn't enough to completely stop the instability, merely halt it.
@@superkamiguru6856 Exactly.
The German Civil War, as some have called it.
Interesting video
This battle is "Luckily for the Prussian" most of the time.
Damn good content right here
Make a vidio about russo - turkish wars
Nooooo
@@papazataklaattiranimam why not? 😂
I support this idea
There are so many of them.
There is probably not much info on them
Omg pls do the first and second Schlewsig wars (Denmark - Prussia 1848 & 1864)
I live in Hradec Králové. Thats the city after which this battle is named. :)
It´s indeed the (Czech) name of the city. In Germany it´s known under its German name: Königgrätz. And in Austria the battle is known as the battle of Sadova.
@@NicolaW72 Hradec Králové is its name. The only name :) Those are alternative names from the past at best.
@@johnpepper8603 No.
@@NicolaW72 yes. learn some facts dude.
@@johnpepper8603 Hradec Králové is the czech name and nothing more. Swallow that
You can imagine the reaction in France when they got Venice from Austria:
French official: "Sire,did we order a Venice?"
Napoleon III: " No,we ordered a Belgium and a Luxembourg, but no Venice."
French official: "What should we do with it?"
Napoleon III: "Give it to Italy, they need it to complete the set."
Make on Franco Prussian war
So nice!!!
2 mistakes the Habsburgs made: picking a fight with Prussia in 1866 when Italy was also prepared to do a stab in the back and no there Power was willing to help Austria, and 2 the German alliance. The emperor should have listened to his family and not ordered mobilization against Serbia in 1914. He should have fired Hotzendorf and dealt with the death of the Archduke directly with the King of Serbia. The emperor didn't even like his nephew. The Dual Monarchy was not prepared for war. 50 million vs the 165 million Russian steam roller even with German help. Italy did a stab-in-back in May 1915 even though 1 million men were already dead and the Italian parliament voted 408 to 111 to remain neutral in M
So nice good to watching
Austria did still use the same weapons sold to Americans for their Civil War that ended in previous year.
Prussia did find an opportunity to test a new infantry weapon--Dreyse Breechloader Rifle. and proven that Breechloaders were teh 'future'.
There used to be clips from an awesome movie about this war used to be on my feed can’t recall the name
ahhh! EU 4 vibes all over ...
Vic2 vibes bhai.
Also vic 3 is gonna be lit
EU4 sucks
Long live crusader kings 3
@@Jason06245 Ew
@@Jason06245 facts
@@Jason06245 ck2 is better than ck3
Some dates would be nice.
I'd encourage anyone who's interested in the topic to read the Wikipedia article as a next stop.
The great war i have ever learned
Idea: Boxer rebellion. The time where every major european colonial /non-colonial power, US, japan and Chinese christians teamed up to beat up China.
An American, Australian, Austrian, Britain, German, French, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese walk into Peking
@@MasonGreenWeed Don't forget a dutch, belgian and a chinese christian.
@@muhammadirfanjalaluddin1018 Belgian and Dutch didn't participate in 8 nation alliance
@@MasonGreenWeed correct, but they still participated in the boxer rebellion.
@Safwaan it's actually 55 days.
Nicely explained.
Damn I can't wait to do all this in Victoria 3!
I hope Paradox will not screw this up. That game has potential to be their greatest work.
Wow this video was almost as long as the war itself!
The greatest time to Prussia...
And they took a worst ally " italy"
But still Prussia is a great nation in 19 century
Did the narrator just pronounce Wilhelm Veal-helm or was that just me hearing it like that.
Anyway great video, this war needs to be covered more. It’s actually such an important war for Europe.
9:33. How is that handy, Germany was pulled in WWI by Austria-Hungary, lost, and that loss laid the foundation of WW2, which they lost even harder. Without the German-Austrian alliance we might not have had 2 world wars, or at least not 2 such brutal ones. Not putting blame for the wars solely on one side here btw, just tinkering a little bit.
"germany was pulled in wwi by austria-hungary"
no, germany was brought into the war by germany. they're the ones who declared war on russia, france and belgium, the latter action bringing the uk into the war.
they thought they were tough and challenged everyone to war... then they did it again in ww2, and lost harder.
@@derps8690 Germany wasn’t the only country that wanted war. France especially wanted war to get back Alsace Lorraine. And Britain and France were scared of Germany’s growing power. Both Austria and Russia wanted more influence in the balkans. And Germany was scared of Russias growing power. In the end, it was Germany who struck first, though war would’ve happened whether the Germans started it or not
Superb vid here, loved it. But can you put the nato symbols for the battles?
Really great video, but please take some time learning the language's native pronunciation. Other than that, really good.
Asia : let's have a big trade of things.
EUROPE : let's destroy each other.
Who else thought this was an armchair historian video?
Me
Denmark not claiming Holstein would probably not make a unified Germany to form by the 1800s.
This was the nail on the coffin for the Austrian Empire, Austria's great power status was yeeted from this war.
Nice to hear about this battle. One of my ancestors fought in this war. He was lieutenant in the Prussian army and fought in Königsgrätz. I just found his certificate for a medal xD.
The book, the Red Prince is a fabulous read on the Hasburges, just a thought.....
For me this is mostly the most interesting history in europe.
Agreed, some people would say Ancient Rome, the crusades, the French Revolution or Napoleonic era, I would say the turn of the 19th century in Europe right before and immediately following 1848 revolution till the dawn of 20th century till onset of WWI is my favorite because the stakes were higher amongst the European nation states and Europe as a continent became more civilized and diplomatic in its disputes with one another as time progressed. I would even argue the politics of this period was equally as interesting as the many subsequent wars that were fought on the continent by extension. Men like Bismarck, The Kaiser, Emp. Franz Joseph, Napoleon III, Victor Emmanuel II were fascinating figures each to be sure.
thanks
The Needle Rifle & use of the Railways won the war for Prussia!!!
Precisely
The fact it's 10:47 and not 11 minutes makes it mare interesting
it should've been 19:06
too bad there are only 60 seconds in a minute