PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA.; THE ITALIAN QUESTION IN GERMANY--IMPORTANT DEBATE IN THE PRUSSIANCHAMBERS. Share full article. March 21, 1860. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Austria wanted another ally among the small German States that support her against Prussia, and assist in checkmating the ambitious designs of King WILHELM and Herr BISMARCK.

Instead of opposing Prussia, Austria joined her, and insisted on having a part in the very business that offended the Germans as much as it disgusted foreigners.

The populations of Austria and the German states that sided with her may have been about 50,000,000 ; and Austria had as much assistance from her German allies as Prussia had from the Italians ...

The aim of this course is to demonstrate how Austria (The Habsburg Monarchy, subsequently the Republic of Austria) tackled the German Problem as incorporated in a series of challenges: organising and ...

The history of a similar showdown in Prussia in the 1860s can teach us how difficult it is to resolve such issues when faced with a lack of constitutional clarity—and suggests that under these ...

TEHRAN – “Austria, Prussia and the Making of Modern Germany, 1806-1871” by John Breuilly, a professor of nationalism and ethnicity at the London School of Economics, has been published in Persian.

The first Monday of March is known as Casimir Pulaski Day in the state of Illinois, but who does the holiday honor? Pulaski was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1745, and he became renowned for his ...

The Seven Years’ War (1756-1763) was triggered by the alliance formed among Russia, Austria, and France, with the aim of curbing the growing power of both Great Britain and Prussia.

Poland is emblematic of the fate of weak countries surrounded by strong ones, which may pay the price of the wars of the strong as well as their agreement. It has been partitioned three times in its ...