How Prussia Ended The French Empire: Franco-Prussian War | Animated History

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Some European country: *Gains power The rest of Europe: Time for the durability test

So Napoleon III was the real life 'Why are we still here? Just to suffer?' meme.

Napoleon III: "Just let me die already!" The Prussians: "Wouldn't it be funny if we left that one guy alone?"

“This will be a long war, with many battles being won by the french” “What do you mean they’re sieging Paris”

Napoleon III: please hit me His horse: dude WTF

"Is this an order" -some french soldier on sedan

Fun Fact: During the Battle of Sedan, a young Japanese army officer witnessed the brilliant victory of Moltke as a military observer. He would go on to command the Japanese army gaining victory over the Russians at Liaoning and Mukden in the Russo-Japanese War. His name was Marshal Oyama Iwao.

It’s a bit poetic that the German Empire started and ended in Versailles.

"We are in a chamber pot, about to be @$#% on" I would give a medal to that man's brilliant choice of words

I just imagen a poor french general standing in a wide open area screaming "SMITE ME FOR THE LOVE OF GOD" only for everything else around him to explode missing him entirely

Proclaiming the new German Empire inside the Palace of a King you just beat in a war is probably that Chadest thing that has ever been done.

Fun fact, Otto von Bismarck's son was a participant in the death charge. He was reported dead, but that was a mistake. Bismarck actually travelled close to the front to see him

French army: We need Napoleon France: we have Napoleon at home Napoleon at home:

Crazy that veterans of this war were still alive when Hitler marched through Paris in 1940.

"So... We were originally supposed to harass the rear guard, but we then kind of ran into their entire army because they were so gosh-darn slow on the retreat, so we just took out their artillery...."

17:41 But it wasn't just the German patrols spotted the French movements, French newspaper also helped the germans: in addition, the national customs of the French were the most stupid, for example, they described all the movements of their troops in the most detailed way in the newspapers. Historical fact: the 3rd Prussian army missed the French troops of Marshal MacMahon and lost the enemy. But then the Germans got their hands on a fresh French newspaper, which described in detail how MacMahon was stationing troops in Reims. The Germans, delighted, turned to Reims, in fact they found MacMahon there and poured it into him sensitively.

Napoleon III looking at the enemy army be like "at least they're not british"

"It will cost what it will cost" Prussian cavalry commander that cleared the French artillery

Fun fact: the italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi fought the war on the french side. He was the only general who haven't lose a battle and the only one who has capturated a prussian flag.