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Memorial stone to the Ems dispatch in Bad Ems. The Ems dispatch (French: Dépêche d'Ems, German: Emser Depesche), sometimes called the Ems telegram, was published on 13 July 1870; it incited the Second French Empire to declare war on the Kingdom of Prussia on 19 July 1870, starting the Franco-Prussian War.
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, [b] ... The Ems telegram of 13 July 1870 had exactly the effect on French public opinion that Bismarck had intended ...
10 March – The Deutsche Bank is granted a banking licence by the Prussian government. 16 July – In response to Bismarck's refusal to cede parts of the Rhineland to Emperor Napoleon III of France, [1] the near succession of a Hohenzollern to the Spanish throne, and the Ems telegram, [2] France declares war on Prussia, beginning the Franco ...
Otto von Bismarck believed that a Franco-German war is necessary to achieve the unity of Germany for the benefit of Prussia—. The Ems Dispatch affair would ignite the casus-belli in accordance with his wishes and despite the lack of enthusiasm of Napoleon III. When France declared war the now North German Confederation on July 19, 1870 ...
Benedetti remained in Berlin until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, and during these years, he played an important part in the diplomatic history of Europe. His position was a difficult one, for Napoleon III did not keep him fully informed as to the course of French policy.
The garrison of eight thousand French troops remained in Rome until August 1870, when they were recalled at the start of the Franco-Prussian War. In September 1870, the Royal Italian Army finally captured Rome and made it the capital of Italy. [100]
The causes of the Franco-Prussian War are deeply rooted in the events surrounding German unification. In the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War (1866), Prussia had annexed numerous ethnically German territories and formed the North German Confederation with other German territories. Prussia then turned its attention towards the south of ...
The ships arrived back in Wilhelmshaven on 16 July, three days before France declared war on Prussia over the Ems Dispatch, initiating the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871. The greatly numerically inferior Prussian Navy assumed a defensive posture against a naval blockade imposed by the French Navy .