HIST 2102H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gerhard Von Scharnhorst, German General Staff, Dennis Hart Mahan
20 Feb 2016
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Congress of vienna: reinstatement of the bourbon monarchy in france. Settled some of the issues of the napoleon wars. They want to re-establish monarchies and the old social hierarchy (pre- revolutionary) Idea was to go back to the way things war. The wars are going to be small ways dealing with nationalism. Anything that looked revolutionary would be squashed. Waterloo; killed 15 people including men, women and children. Use of force in spain (1823), poland (1831) france and italy (1830 and 1848) Berlin (1848) the troops won, suppressed revolution. The crimean war (1854-56) struggle between russia and the ottomans with. Wars of german unification (1864-1871) solidify the position of prussia, creating a unified germany before wwi. War was the national industry of prussia few would argue about this point made. Legacy of frederick the great his ideas were copied from one side of the continent to the other.
