The #FrancoPrussianWar changed the map of #Europe – so why are we so ignorant about it? #Bismarck, relying on Gallic pride to provoke the war he wanted, ensured that #France would fight without a single ally.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/the-war-that-changed-the-map-of-europe/

I trained an AI on ~100,000 Mastodon introduction posts and it generated this:

Hello, #Fediverse! 👋 I'm just an ordinary Joe from Knoxville with completely typical interests.

Play the #BowedDulcimer, collect #CanadianStamps, blog about the #FrancoPrussianWar (#11ty running on a #RaspberryPi), currently working on a #Lojban translation of #Gilgamesh.

#StarTrek > Star Wars 🖖

Please say "coi"!

“One hundred and fifty years ago, on January 18, 1871, the #GermanEmpire was proclaimed in #Versailles’ Hall of Mirrors, which the troops of the German states had just captured in the #FrancoPrussianWar of 1870-71.”

“The choice of January 18 for the proclamation that marked #Germany’s birth as a unified nation was not accidental: it was the anniversary of the coronation in 1701 of the first king of #Prussia.”

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/150-years-on-germanys-past-shows-fragility-of-freedom/news-story/1dc8c452ee22ff6653d5ac62e170fff1