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Article: Austro-Prussian War
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Austro-Prussian War
1866
This conflict, called also the Seven Weeks' War, was productive
of
results not to be measured by the duration of the struggle in the
field - the
total exclusion of Austria from political control in Germany, and
the rise of
Prussia to a position of primacy among the German States. The annexation
of
Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia, as a consequence of the war, not only
aggrandized that kingdom, but made an important change in the relations
of the
duchies so annexed.
The "Schleswig-Holstein question" was the cause of the war -
that and the
ancient rivalry between Austria and Prussia. The Schleswig-Holstein
question
is one of ...
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