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Title: A history of mediæval and modern Europe for secondary schools
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Davis, William Stearns, 1877-1930 McKendrick, Norman Shaw, 1876-
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Von Moltke hehad a Chief of Staff of remarkable ability. By him thePrussian army was so reorganized that it was soon proved tobe the first in the v/orld. 290. The Danish War (1864). In 1864, Bismarck began tocome to his reckoning with Austria. He soon showed himselfa far better diplomat than the Vienna statesmen. All Germanywas agitated over the Schleswig-Holstein question. These twoduchies had a population mainly German, but had been placedby a personal union under the King of Denmark. InHolstein, especially, Danish rule was very unwelcome. In1863, the Danes adopted a constitution which made theduchies almost parts of Denmark. 1 In Holstein there wasgreat uproar, and men proposed to give the ducal throne tothe Duke of Augustenburg.^ Bismarck now adroitly maneu- 1 The inhabitants of Holstein, the southern duchy, were bitterly Anti-Danish,and resented this attempt to un-Germanize them. 2 The Duke of Augustenburg seemed to have the ne.xt best claim if the Kingof Denmark were eliminated.
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PRINCE BISMARCK German statesmanBorn 1815 Died i8( HOW BISMARCK MADE GERMANY 495 vered the Austrians into an entangling alliance with Prussiato eject the Danes from the disputed country. The generalsupposition was that the Duke of Augustenburg would pres-ently be given the lands, and this was what the world awaited,when, after a brief war (the Danes fighting heroically, butsimply overwhelmed by the troops of the two great powersagainst them), the King of Denmark was obhged to makepeace by giving up the duchies and promising to accept anydisposition which the allies might make of them. Then it was that Bismarck show^ed his hand. Over the settle-ment of the government of Schleswig-Holstein endless difficul-ties arose. Austria urged the cause of the Augustenburger;Bismarck demanded that if the region were to be made intoa new principahty, it should be tied to Prussia in extreme bondsof vassalage. Austria was resolved under no circumstances tosubmit to an increase of Prussian power; the d

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