Napoleon Bonaparte III19 July 1870
France declares war on Prussia after the Ems Dispatch crisis, beginning the Franco-Prussian War.
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France declares war on Prussia after the Ems Dispatch crisis, beginning the Franco-Prussian War.
Expects a decisive victory "we shall come across the glorious tracks of our fathers". Declares war on Germany
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