Railway network between 1841-47
375 km to 2325 km
Needle-gun
Dreyse 1848
Krupps artillery works
Essen, Rhineland
Popular support of the army
Landwehr (reserve troops)
Wilhelm I comes to power and send Bismarck off to Russia
1858
Albrecht von Roon
appointed Minister of War 1859
L�cketheorie
1862-65 in order to collect taxes for army reforms
Manteufell
conservative pesant reform
Convention of Gastein
1865
Helmut von Moltke
Field Marshal Prussian army
Peace of Prague
August 1866
North German Confederation
1867
Leopold von hohenzollern-Simaringen
July 1870 candidature for Spanish throne
Ems Telegram
July 1870
Treaty of Frankfurt
5 billion marcs in French reparations
German Empire
declared 1871 in Versailles in the Hall of Mirrors