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The result was a 10-month [[Curb Stomp Battle]] as the Prussians decimated the French in all but three battles (where the French won one at Broney-Colombey and fought to a draw in two others), captured the French Emperor, Napoleon III, and unified Germany.
Another result of the war was Germany's annexation of Elsaß-Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine), which they held until [[World War
The defeat of Napoleon III led to his fall and the proclamation of the Third French Republic, which continued the war longer than the Germans expected by continually raising new armies even as Paris was besieged. In a bloody epilogue after the signing of the definitive peace treaty French fought French as the forces of the conservative central government put down the Paris Commune, a short-lived revolutionary government which was in control by revolutionary members of the French working class. While short-lived and petty by that time, it would later on inspire a man named [[Vladimir Lenin]] to start the [[Red October|October Revolution]] and create [[Soviet Union]], thus being responsible of communism's first steps as a major power through the 20th century.
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* [[Badass Army]]: The Prussian (aka the North German) Army.
** The South German armies were in on it, too. One of the first heroes to make headlines through a daring reconnaissance raid was the Württemberg cavalry officer Count Zeppelin (yes, ''that'' [[Cool Airship|Count Zeppelin]]).
* [[Book Ends]]: The German Empire was unfied and proclaimed in Versailles. The Empire ended there also after [[World War
* [[Cool Train]] : The chief German weapon was their trains. It enabled them to get tons of troops to the front in time. As a bonus it enabled them to use reserves as front-line units without worrying about them falling over with weariness after all the marching.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]
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** The rifled needle-gun was the standard Prussian infantry weapon since the 1840s (recall that in 1861 most Confederate and Union infantry units used muzzle-loaders, and a surprising number even still were equipped with smoothbores). The new French Chassepot rifle was somewhat superior (and already a second-generation weapon), but that advantage was more than offset by the breech-loading rifled artillery of the German armies.
* [[It Got Worse]]: Relations between France and Germany could not be said to have improved anytime soon after this war.
** For bonus irony points: Bismarck believed that even if he were to offer France a moderate peace conditions they would eventually seek revenge for the lost war anyway. Thus, he concluded that if the second war with France is inevitable, he might as well strengthen Germany and weaken France by annexing Alsace-Lorraine. However, it was the annexation of these territories that became the main cause of the enmity between France and Germany in the subsequent decades and possibly it was the reason why [[World War
* [[Last Stand]]: The Siege of Paris, which lasted for roughly half the war.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: [[Otto von Bismarck]], during the four years between the Seven Weeks War and this war he managed to isolate France while gaining an alliance with the Independent Southern German states to finish the unification process. Of course, this is the real life David Xanatos you're talking about.
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