Otto Eduard Leopold Bismarck Bismarck-Schonhausen, Prince von23 August 1866
Austria accepts dissolution of the Confederation and Prussian reorganization north of the Main.
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Austria accepts dissolution of the Confederation and Prussian reorganization north of the Main.
Bismarck secures a moderate settlement and rejects demands to annex Austrian territory.
Prussia and Baden conclude peace and a secret defensive alliance.
The settlement protects the separate sovereignty of southern Germany while allowing Prussian alliances.
The treaty confirms transfer of Austrian rights in Schleswig and Holstein to Prussia.
Wilhelm accepts the final treaty ending the war with Austria on comparatively moderate terms.
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