Battle of Alsace (1870) - France vs Prussia

With your donations I can get more time to create and upload new videos. Please support my channel and subscribe. Thanks. :) Cut from French movie “Champ d’honneur“ (Field of Honor) 1987. The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire (and later, the Third French Republic) and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. Lasting from 19 July 1870 to 28 January 1871, the conflict was caused by French fears of a shift in the European balance of power if the Prussians succeeded in achieving German unification. Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck deliberately provoked the French into declaring war on Prussia in order to draw four independent southern German states—Baden, Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse-Darmstadt—into an alliance with the North German Confederation dominated by Prussia. Some historians contend th