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On 19 March 1848, after the Revolution in Berlin succeeded throughout the Spring of Nations, King Frederick William IV of Prussia granted amnesty to the Polish prisoners, who joined the Berlin Home Guard in the evening of 20 March 1848 by founding a "Polish Legion" in the courtyard of the Berlin Palace, and were armed with weapons from the ...
Revolutions of 1848: a social history (2. print ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Pr. ISBN 978-0-691-00756-4., despite the subtitle this is a traditional political narrative; Sperber, Jonathan (2005). The European Revolutions, 1848–1851. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-44590-0. Stearns, Peter N. (1974). The revolutions of 1848 ...
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Carl Schurz in 1860. A participant of the 1848 revolution in Germany, he immigrated to the United States and became the 13th United States Secretary of the Interior.. The Forty-eighters (48ers) were Europeans who participated in or supported the Revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe, particularly those who were expelled from or emigrated from their native land following those revolutions.
Three members of the organization attended the Prague Slavic Congress in June 1848. On 18 May 1848 the council decided the problem with national symbols declaring that "the flag of local Ruthenian land consists of the lion , and the colors of Ruthenia are yellow and blue" (Ruthenian: знамя земли рускои тутейшои єсть ...
Almost simultaneously with the popular uprisings of 1848 in the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, on 18 March of that year, the city of Milan also rose up. This was the first evidence of how effective popular initiative, guided by those in the Risorgimento , was able to influence Charles Albert of Sardinia .
History detectives solve mysteries of glass plate negatives from turn of the 20th century. Surprisingly, some of the buildings still stand. Solved: Readers identify Ohio photos from early 1900s ...
Polish nationalism reached its height in the second half of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century. [citation needed] Crucial waves followed the Polish defeat in the January Uprising of 1864, the restoration of an independent Polish state in 1918 and the establishment of a homogeneous ethnic Polish state in 1945. [18]