Wilhelm Hohenzollern I13 July 1870
Wilhelm I rejects further French demands over the Hohenzollern candidacy, and Bismarck's edited dispatch hardens opinion in both countries.
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Wilhelm I rejects further French demands over the Hohenzollern candidacy, and Bismarck's edited dispatch hardens opinion in both countries.
Bismarck's released statement of the telegram to the press becomes known as the Ems Dispatch
The Ems Dispatch, sometimes called the Ems Telegram, incites France to declare the Franco-Prussian War in July 1870
The name refers to Bad Ems, a resort spa east of Koblenz on the Lahn river
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