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1. The Guelph 'Conspiracy': Hanover was would-be intermediary in the European system, 1866-1870

Author

Heinzen, Jasper

Subjects
France -- Military policy, Hanover, New Hampshire -- Military aspects, Prussia -- Military aspects, Joint operations (Military science), History
Abstract

The article gives an account of Guelph conspiracy of negotiating with France, Austria and Italy for alliance in 1867 against Prussia to restore power over Hanover which was annexed by Prussia in 1866 along with other German states.

Published
2007

3. Hussars at the gates of Berlin: a lightning raid that captured Prussia's capital city embarrassed Frederick the Great and made cavalry leader Andreas Hadik a man to 'watch out for'

Author

Blumberg, Arnold

Subjects
Prussia -- History, Prussia -- Military aspects, Military maneuvers -- History, History
Abstract

ON DECEMBER 25, 1745, the Treaty of Dresden was signed between Prussia's King Frederick II and Austria's Empress Maria Theresa, ending the Second Silesian War (1744-1745). This pact granted Frederick [...]

Published
2007

5. The consensus on defense and Weimar Prussia's civil service

Author

Bergien, Rudiger

Subjects
Prussia -- Military aspects, Weimar, Germany -- Military aspects, Civil-military relations -- Analysis, Civil service -- History, Civil service -- Military aspects, National defense -- Ethical aspects, National defense -- History, Civil service ethics, History, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The article discusses the extensive participation of civil authorities in the building of an illegal national protection organization. There was an overlap between republican and military concepts of how to provide security for the state and a large-scale civil-military collaboration, which resulted in the Prussian administration being involved in clandestine armament activities between 1923 and 1928 on a macro level.

Published
2008

6. Exchange: Bismarck and the Franco-Prussian war: the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870 and Bismarck's concept of a 'provoked defensive war': a response to David Wetzel

Author

Becker, Josef

Subjects
France -- Military aspects, Prussia -- Military aspects, Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 -- Evaluation, War -- Evaluation, History, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The article is in response to the views expressed by David Wetzel regarding the author's interpretation of the Reich-founder's policies.

Published
2008

7. Occupation, mobilization, and politics: The anti-Napoleonic wars in Prussian experience, memory, and historiography

Author

Hagemann, Karen

Subjects
Prussia -- Military aspects, Prussia -- Political aspects, Prussia -- History, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- History, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Political aspects, Propaganda, German -- Analysis, History, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The consequences of the Prusso-Saxon defeat of 1806-07 and subsequent French occupation in and for Prussia are discussed, and the influence of the patriotic-national war propaganda, which attempted to mobilize for an anti-Napoleonic war of liberation of 1813-15, is analyzed. It is concluded that this mobilization was very unevenly diffused, depending on political tradition and socioeconomic, religious and ethic differences in regional contexts.

Published
2006

8. Frederick the Great's greatest debacle (1759)

Subjects
Prussia -- Military aspects, History
Abstract

About halfway through the Seven Years' War Frederick Us Prussians took on an invading Russian-Austrian army near Frankfurt am Oder. The allied force had dug in east of town around [...]

Published
2016

9. Who wrote the book on war?

Author

Krier, Beth Ann

Subjects
Prussia -- Military aspects, Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Influence, Military art and science -- Bibliography
Published
1991

10. Prussians

Author

Moran, Daniel

Subjects
Prussia -- Military aspects, History, Military and naval science
Abstract

Among European peoples, the military reputation of the Prussians is unparalleled in modern times. A small, impoverished kingdom strung across the northern German plain, Prussia emerged as a force to [...]

Published
1996

11. Prussia has little to do with it

Author

Lind, William S.

Subjects
United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff -- Management, Military administration -- Analysis, Prussia -- Military aspects
Published
1984

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