Word: franco-prussian
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...Franco-Prussian War," Professor Langer, Harvard...
...Background of the Franco-Prussian War," Professor Langer, Harvard...
Corot had a good voice, would sometimes sing at parties. He never read newspapers. Although he lived through two French revolutions (1830, 1848) and the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) he seemed aware of only the latter...
Attempting to outflank Fort Ballivian, Paraguay's shrewd General Jose Felix Estigarribia sent three full divisions inland from the Pilcomayo River. At Canada Strongest the Bolivians struck. All the world has helped supply both armies with munitions, but there was a particularly Franco-Prussian cast to the battle of Canada Strongest. Youthful General Estigarribia, Paraguayan Commander-in-Chief, is French-trained, a graduate of the French cavalry school at Saumur and the great military academy of St.-Cyr. Bolivia's General Enrique Penaranda del Castillo is German-trained and served under Bolivia's dismissed Prussian commander. General...
...citizen, Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss, born in Watertown, Conn. in 1826, made a fortune manufacturing guns and munitions for the North during the Civil War. He went to Europe in 1867, established a cartridge factory in the south of France. His capital increased by profits from the Franco-Prussian War, he moved to Paris to set up a new arms factory in suburban St. Denis. Ben Hotchkiss, like his compatriots, Gatling and Maxim, was one of the inventors of the modern machine gun. One of the firm's best sellers, now long outmoded, was Director Benet's own invention...