It helped, too, that all five powers were preoccupied: the British and the French were building overseas empires the Russian Tsar was expanding into Central Asia the Austrian Habsburgs were sinking in a cauldron of national tensions while the Prussians had the opposite problem, that the Germans were fragmented into petty states.īetween 18, this situation was transformed by the enforced ‘solution’ of the national question in Germany – the Prussian-dominated unification of the country by Bismarckian ‘blood and iron’. ![]() That balance, stable since the defeat of Napoleonic France in 1814-15, had depended on a rough equivalence among five European great powers: Britain, France, Prussia, Austria, and Russia. ![]() The Franco-Prussian War overturned the balance of power in Europe. ![]() The Battle of Gravelotte-St-Privat, during the Franco-Prussian War.
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