Talk:Causes of the Franco-Prussian War
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why was this article created without a summary in the original ariticle?
[edit]69.243.110.89 (talk) 02:02, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Section on Venetia is confusing
[edit]"Austria then attempted to guarantee Italy Venetia if they remained neutral, but they were unable to agree as an alliance bound them to Prussia." -- Are both "theys" referring to Italy? And the neutrality would be in case of another Austro-Prussian conflict? And did Italy have an alliance with Prussia? It's not mentioned elsewhere in the article.
"Napoleon III then committed a serious blunder by agreeing with Austria in a treaty to accept Venetia by allowing Austria to go to war with Prussia" -- is this to mean that if Austria joined France against Prussia, then France would reward Austria with Venetia? Dcheng (talk) 22:48, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Date of declaration of war
[edit]Near the end, the article states: "France officially declared war on 19 July 1870." However the following is on page 562 of Jasper Ridley's Napoleon III and Eugénie: "On the afternoon of 15 July, Ollivier informed the Chambers that France had declared war on Prussia." Italus (talk) 14:52, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
- I have now added the July 19th 1870 entry from Moritz Busch's Bismarck: Some secret pages from his history, Macmillan, New York (1898) Vol. I, p. 37--"Le Sourd, the French Chargé d'Affaires, delivered Napoleon's declaration of war at the Foreign Office" in Berlin. Italus (talk) 16:15, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
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