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Title: The modern world, from Charlemagne to the present time; with a preliminary survey of ancient times
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Betten, Francis S. (Francis Sales), 1863-1942 Kaufmann, Alfred, 1878-1941, joint author
Subjects: History, Modern
Publisher: Boston, New York, (etc.) Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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me forward with a proposal to reorganize the Confederationin such a way as to destroy the preponderance of Austria. Thelatter would not listen to the plan, and both prepared for war. Bismarck with consummate skill had secured the neutralityof Napoleo7i III. Then he negotiated a secret treaty withItaly. That country longed for the acquisition of Venetia,which it failed to get in 1859 (§ 697). Bismarck now promisedto the Italians that Austrian province if they would declarewar as soon as Prussia had taken the initiative. 706. Meantime the excitement over the Schleswig-Holsteinquestion became daily more intense. Austria convoked theDiet at Frankfort to settle the matter. Prussia declared thisa breach of the treaty of Gastein and sent her troops intoHolstein. Thereupon the Diet mobilized the armies of theConfederation. Prussia seceded, and the war began. All ofthe southern states ranged themselves on the side of Austria,as did also three of the northern states, Saxony, Hanover, andHesse.
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684 §707) THE PEACE 685 But Bismarck and Moltke were certain of success. Superiorequipment and leadership justified their hopes. In three daysthe Prussian armies overran the three northern alhes of Austria.From Saxony they marched into Bohemia, where, on July 3,1866, they met the main army of Austria at Sadoiva. Thecontest was one of the bloodiest of the century; the Austrianssuffered a terrible defeat, and the way to Vienna was open tothe enemy. Meantime the Italians had kept their part of the engagementand opened hostilities, but only to meet defeat on the old battle-field of Custozza. The Italian fleet, too, though superblyequipped, was badly crippled by the wooden ships of the Aus-trians off the coast of Dalmatia. 707. The Peace, nevertheless, gave Venetia to Italy. Theother, more important, provisions come under two heads. a. Prussia annexed Hesse-Cassel, Nassau, Hanover, andthe city of Frankfort, the seat of the former Diet. These ac-quisitions consolidated her formerly scatter

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