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Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d rifledcannon. June 22, the allies crossed the channel to the Island of Alsen and,on the 28th, captured the Danish stronghold Dennewerke, hitherto consideredimpregnable. The Treaty of Vienna, October 30, 1864, closed the war.Prussia and Austria together were to control the duchies. The Seven Weeks War. — The arrangement between Prussia and Aus-tria respecting the Danish duchies caused the Seven Weeks War of 1866.Bismarck induced Victor Emmanuel to form an alliance against Austria,March 27. The Prussians, on June 7, without a blow forced the Austrians toretire from Holstein, ignoring the protest of the Federal Diet. Austria wasnot prepared for war. Her army, together with that of Saxony, amounted totwo hundred and seventy-one thousand. With Prussia, fully equipped andon a war footing with three armies, besides the reserves, the grand totalestimated at three hundred thousand, the result was a foregone conclusion.Prussia declared war, June 15, 1866, against Hanover, Hesse, and Saxony,
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412 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX™ CENTURY and next day threw her armies into the hostile states. On the 17th FrancisJoseph published his war manifesto. Italy declared war, on the 20th, againstAustria and Bavaria. In fourteen days Prussias immense army was mobil-ized. In five days the northern states to the Main were disarmed, and theSaxon army was forced to retreat toward Bohemia. General Benedek was commander of the Austrians. Upon news of Prus-sian victories, he advised Francis Joseph to make terms of peace with Wil-liam. Prussia fought for German unification; Austria to protect her pride.It was supposed the Austrians would first enter Saxony and dispute thePrussian advance, but Bismarck had determined the war should be brief, forPrussia was now master of the situation. On June 23, the Prussian armymarched from three points towards Josephstadt, where Benedek was prepar-ing to fight. On the 27th the Austrians were driven back at Soor, next dayat Skalitz, and on the 29th at Gitsc

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