Franco-Prussian War

How To Use Franco-Prussian War In A Sentence

• It displayed on a field, vert, three waving transverse bars argent, and in a free quarter-purpure - dexter a medal of the Franco-Prussian War in natural colors. The Malady of the Century
• And while Andrew, now unreproached, frowned, pencil in hand and notebook by his side, over the strategics of the Franco-Prussian War, The Mountebank
• The Franco-Prussian war, for example, was extraordinarily brief and resulted in only moderate casualties, and France, absent Alsace-Lorraine, remained largely intact. Matthew Yglesias » Carter on Gaza
• At the left were more attractions: another menagerie, a heap of ostensible gold representing the five milliards paid by France, a gallery of astonished wax soldiers representing the Franco-Prussian war, a cook-shop with "mythologic" confectionery. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
• It was planned to include the Saar Valley under the term "Alsace-Lorraine" because it had been part of Alsace-Lorraine in 1814, though it had been detached in 1815, and was no part of the territory at the close of the Franco-Prussian war. Public Opinion
• He had been born in 1867 in the region of Petite-Pierre near Saverne (Bas-Rhin), but his family had moved to the French interior after the Franco-Prussian War. Louise Weiss.
• In the Franco-Prussian war there were three regiments, which fought fiercely at Wissembourg and Wörth, in their distinctive short light-blue tunics.
• After the close of the Franco-Prussian War, it was the thought of the aged Emperor to make this Arsenal, already crowded with an immense collection of arms, armor, and trophies, into a kind of Walhalla, -- a National Hall of In and Around Berlin
• Britain was totally unprepared for the cataclysm of the Franco-Prussian War late in 1870 and still less for its outcome.
• Yes, there were aberrations like the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, but mostly it was a period of peace.