France entered the Franco-Prussian War confident and unprepared — Prussia entered disciplined and ready. This video explores how Otto von Bismarck’s manipulation of the Ems Dispatch provoked France ...
THE capture of Napoleon III at Sedan on Sept. 2,1870, ended the Second Empire, but not the Franco-Prussian War. Invested by the German Armies, cut off from the rest of France, without defenders at the ...