The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . ssians about 240,000. At eight oclock on the morning of July 3, the first armyopened the attack on the Austrian center and left. The morningpassed without any decisive advantage on either side; but the arrivalof the Second Army and its attack on the Austrian right, combinedwith the renewed efforts of Frederick Charless troops, resulted in anoverwhelmin
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . ssians about 240,000. At eight oclock on the morning of July 3, the first armyopened the attack on the Austrian center and left. The morningpassed without any decisive advantage on either side; but the arrivalof the Second Army and its attack on the Austrian right, combinedwith the renewed efforts of Frederick Charless troops, resulted in anoverwhelming defeat for the Austrians in the middle of the after-noon. The Austrians lost in all about 44,200 men, of whom 19,800were prisoners. The Prussians lost 8,794 men and 359 Austrians retreated to Zwittan and Olmiitz pursued by a bodyof Prussians; but the King of Prussia marched with 100,000 mentoward Vienna, and reached Nikolsburg, July 18. Francis Joseph was now ready to make terms. He ceded Vene-tia to Italy, as well as the fortresses of the Quadrilateral—Peschiera,Mantua, Verona, and Legnano—and was willing to recognize a newGerman Confederation; he gave up all claims to Schleswig-Holsteinand paid a heavy war 168 THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR 169 The war of 1866 gave the death-blow to the Germanic Confedera-tion of 1815. In its place appeared the North German Confedera-tion under the lead of Prussia. The transformation was completedfive j^ears later, when, after the successful war with France, theSouth German States joined the union and the King of Prussia be-came the German Emperor. The Tranco-Prussian War (1870-71)—After 1866, when Prus-sia became the strongest power in Europe and Austria was almost ex-cluded from Germany, M. Thiers predicted the coming German Em-pire. M. Magne addressed Napoleon III with the bold words: Thenational feelings would be profoundly wounded if the final resultshould be that France has only gained by her intervention the e
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