In the last decade of the 18th century, Napoleon’s forces were strong enough to conquer and control the whole of mainland Europe, including the numerous German states. He reorganised the ...

After the reunification of Germany, Frederick the Great finally ... cry for religious freedom and rational thought. He arrived in Prussia in 1750, grieving the death of his lover, the Marquise ...

Prussia's development as a successful, modern industrial state gave hope to German nationalists. Economically, unification through the Zollverein economic alliance of 1834 had been a success ...

England and Prussia are both examples of the disastrous ... It were almost better for Germany to meet an invading foe tomorrow, and settle at once the question of national life or death, than ...

Otto Braun. For twelve years he was Prussia’s Premier. He fled from Germany upon the rise of Adolf Hitler, languishes today with other Socialist refugees in Switzerland. Last weekbullnecked ...

But the "small German" solution of the German Federation and Prussia without Austria was also rejected by the Austrian emperor, as he then would have lost his influence in Germany. This solution ...

Jan. 18 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1871, William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor. His reign ended upon his death March 9, 1888, and he was succeeded by his son ...