Franco-Prussian War
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- noun
- /ˈfræŋkoʊ ˈpruːʃən wɔr/
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Guerra Franco-Prusiana
- The Franco-Prussian War, which lasted from 1870 to 1871, led to the unification of Germany.
- Franco-Prussian War of 1870
- Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71
- followed the Franco-Prussian War
Examples
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Prussia established a unit to evaluate all-source intelligence during the Franco-Prussian War but abolished it after the conflict ended.
Academic text (2006) -
The so-called Ems Telegram did not include any new information, but it provoked the map-altering Franco-Prussian War on Bismarck's timetable.
Academic text (2011) -
Or were they referring to the Franco-Prussian War?
Blog text (4) -
Several other pieces in that collection were also inspired by the Franco-Prussian War, but only three are set in Alsace.
Academic text (2000) -
In 1870, after the declaration of the Franco-Prussian War, he was appointed as surgeon to the army.
Academic text (2003) -
Until the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, she lived there in seclusion, overseeing her gardens, reading, and writing.
Academic text (2000) -
Our destination is not the 1970s and the dawn of microcomputers, but the 1870s and the Franco-Prussian War.
Blog text (23) -
He had been shell-shocked during the Franco-Prussian War, and he had never entirely recovered.
Fiction book (1998) -
Nine years later, almost to the day, the victory parade passed through Berlin after the stupendous Prussian triumph over France in the Franco-Prussian War and the proclamation of a German empire in the euphoria of that success.
Academic text (2011) -
As Burckhardt wrote with foreboding in the 1870s, "The first great phenomenon to follow the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 was a further extraordinary intensification of money-making."
Academic text (1994)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Franco-Prussian + war
The compound 'Franco-Prussian' clearly signals a relation to France and to Prussia, and when combined with 'war' denotes an armed conflict between those two parties. This X–Y war pattern is cross-linguistically common and therefore a B1 learner who knows the constituent meanings can infer the basic meaning (though not the specific historical details).
Etymology
Franco-Prussian War is a name made by joining Franco (for France) and Prussian (for Prussia) to show it was a war between those two countries in 1870–1871. That war led to the fall of the French ruler and the joining of many German states into one country, so the name now refers to that specific historical conflict.