• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, AFAIK if you lost a war badly back in the day you lost territory, it was just expected regardless of the aggressor. This one’s weird mostly just because it’s a country that should have (in conventional combat) rolled over easily, by every possible measure.

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      2 months ago

      In the case of the Franco-Prussian war, you lose so badly that your enemies unite and coronate their new Emperor 16 km from your besieged capital.

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        That was the franco-prussian war from 1870/71 not the anti-Napoleon one, Germany didn’t become an empire after the letter

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          Which was discussed in the prior comment. Louis Napoleon got man-handled and France was abke to but up only a token (albeit bloody) resistance against the combined German forces. The German Empire was declared in the Versailles Palace while Paris was under seige during the war. Honestly i would say it was an even more humiliating defeat for France than WW2. All your enemies uniting their countries into one on your own soil while the war is still ongoing is straight up disrespectful. It would be akin to the Potsdsmn conference being held on the deck of the USS Missouri in the middle of Tokyo Bay before the atomic bombings.