1870 Military Campaign
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
All of this is, of course, true, but it needs to be put in the context of the alliance system itself.192 After all, had the Russians been allowed to attack Austria-Hungary alone, or had the Germans been permitted a rerun of their 1870 war against France while the other powers remained neutral, the prospects of victory (even if a little delayed) seem incontestable.
chapter: Alliances and the Drift to War, 1890–1914