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On 16 July 1870, the French parliament voted to declare war on Prussia; France invaded German territory on 2 August. The German coalition mobilised its troops much more effectively than the French and invaded northeastern France on 4 August. German forces were superior in numbers, training, and leadership and made more effective use of modern ...
King Wilhelm I of Prussia was declared emperor of the newly created empire in the Hall of Mirrors in the Versailles Palace. The new German command structure wanted to sign a peace treaty to gain France's colonial possessions; however, Bismarck opted for an immediate truce as his primary reason for war, German unification, had already been ...
On 30 May 1814 the Treaty of Paris declared the German states independent. In 1814–1815, the Congress of Vienna redrew the continent's political map. Napoleonic creations such as the huge Kingdom of Westphalia, the Grand Duchy of Berg and the Duchy of Würzburg were abolished; suppressed states, including Hanover, the Brunswick duchies, Hesse ...
Article 19 of the Franco-German armistice required the French state to turn over to German authorities any German national on French territory, ... and declared Paris ...
The Paris Peace Conference lasted from 29 July until 15 October 1946. The victorious wartime Allied powers (principally the United Kingdom , Soviet Union , United States , and France ) negotiated the details of peace treaties with those former Axis allies , namely Italy , Romania , Hungary , Bulgaria , and Finland , which had switched sides and ...
The gradual loss of all Vichy territory to Free ... declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939 ... Brinon as representative to the German High Command in Paris ...
The Conference formally opened on 18 January 1919 at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. [4] [5] This date was symbolic, as it was the anniversary of the proclamation of William I as German Emperor in 1871, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, shortly before the end of the Siege of Paris [6] – a day itself imbued with significance in Germany, as the anniversary of the establishment of ...
France at the Treaty of Troyes in 1420: English territory in red, Burgundian territory in purple, both recognising the treaty; Armagnac territory, not recognising the treaty, in blue. The tide of the Hundred Years' War would turn dramatically upon the appearance of Joan of Arc, who led the French to relieve the Siege of Orléans (1429).