Question: How many prisoners did the French leave behind?
Answer: 1,000 prisoners

Question: What weapon once again increased the effectiveness of the infantry attacks?
Answer: French Chassepot

Question: What is the Franco-Prussian War also known as?
Answer: Franco-German War

Question: What was the war often referred to in France as?
Answer: the War of 1870

Question: In the conflict, who lead the German states of the North German Confederation?
Answer: the Kingdom of Prussia

Question: Whose ambitions are credited with causing the conflict?
Answer: Prussian ambitions

Question: Which Prussian chancellor's motives in the conflict are still disputed?
Answer: Otto von Bismarck

Question: In whose cadidacy did the immediate cause of war reside?
Answer: Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Question: What did France fear by an alliance between Prussia and Spain?
Answer: encirclement

Question: Who goaded the French into war by editing a telegram sent by William I?
Answer: Otto von Bismarck

Question: What was the name of the famous telelgram?
Answer: Ems Dispatch

Question: What was the reaction of the French people to the deceptively crafted offense in the Ems Dispatch?
Answer: inflamed public opinion

Question: What battle began when two armies collided in the town of Froschwiller?
Answer: The Battle of Wörth

Question: On what date did the Battle of Worth begin?
Answer: 6 August

Question: What was the estimated number of troops in Prussia's 3rd Army?
Answer: 140,000 troops

Question: What number of troops did France have to contend with?
Answer: 35,000

Question: Instead of pursuing the French as they retreated, the Germans decided to remain where?
Answer: Alsace

Question: In which country was a war against France condsidered desirable?
Answer: Prussia

Question: What was the overarching Prussian motive in starting a war with France?
Answer: unification of a great German empire

Question: Who had no doubts that a Franco-German war was totally necessary?
Answer: Chancellor Otto von Bismarck

Question: Who did Bismarck feel needed to be viewed as the aggressor in the conflict?
Answer: France

Question: In bringing the southern German states to align with Prussia, what tactical outcome was achieved?
Answer: Germans numerical superiority

Question: On what date did the battle begin?
Answer: 18 August

Question: Who order the First and Second armies to advance against the French?
Answer: Moltke

Question: Which general opened the battle with artillery from the 25th Infantry Division?
Answer: General Manstein

Question: Who did the battle first appear to favor?
Answer: the French

Question: Who was the commander of the First Army?
Answer: General Steinmetz

Question: What modern, mass-produced weapon were the French infantry provided?
Answer: Chassepot rifle

Question: What was the maximum effective range of the Chassepot rifle?
Answer: 1,500 metres (4,900 ft)

Question: In which type of warfare did the French best utilize the Chassepot?
Answer: trench-warfare

Question: What precedent of the machine gun did the French troops also possess?
Answer: the mitrailleuse

Question: On what was the mitrailleuse mounted?
Answer: on an artillery gun carriage

Question: On which date did the battle begin with the Army of Chalons attacking various Prussian divisions?
Answer: 1 September 1870

Question: Who commanded the French V Corps in reserve?
Answer: General De Wimpffen

Question: As the French were hard-hit by the Prussian artillery, what continued to show up to the battlefield?
Answer: more Prussian troops

Question: Which commander of the French calvary led three desperate attacks on Floing?
Answer: General Marguerite

Question: How many casualties did the French suffer?
Answer: over 17,000 men

Question: Pre-war, who planned for a strong French offensive?
Answer: Marshal Niel

Question: From Thionville towards Trier, what was the final destination of the offensive?
Answer: the Prussian Rhineland

Question: Niel's plan was cast aside in favour of a plan by General Frossard and what other general??
Answer: Bartélemy Lebrun

Question: The new plan called for which army to remain in a defensive grouping at the German border?
Answer: Army of the Rhine

Question: Which disaster made French planning supremely essential?
Answer: the disaster at Wissembourg

Question: Which general was determined to go on the attack over Saar?
Answer: General Le Bœuf

Question: Planning for the next battle was less based on emotion and more focused on what?
Answer: the reality of unfolding events

Question: Who told LeBoeuf that supply beyond the Saar would be impossible?
Answer: General Wolff

Question: What did the French armies decide on to protect against every possible attack point?
Answer: a defensive position

Question: What army's defeats turned Gambetta to the Army of the North?
Answer: Army of the Loire's

Question: Who led the Army of the North?
Answer: General Faidherbe

Question: Several smaller victories were acheived by the protection of what?
Answer: belt of fortresses

Question: The belt of fortresses were in what area of France?
Answer: northern France

Question: This position in the north allowed whose men to launch fast attacks against Prussian units?
Answer: Faidherbe's

Question: What odds were at stake for the attack launched by the III Corps?
Answer: four to one

Question: What town were the III Corps able to capture?
Answer: Vionville

Question: In capturing Vionville, what was further blocked in the west?
Answer: escape attempts

Question: With battle at Metz, what factor shattered the efforts of III Corps?
Answer: incessant cavalry charges

Question: The Germans recorded how many causualties in the battle?
Answer: 15,780

Question: Which prince ordered an artillery attack against Canrobert?
Answer: Prince Frederick Charles

Question: Which army's defeat compelled Prince Charles to attack?
Answer: defeat of the First Army,

Question: As the Second Army pushed into Ravine, the XII Corps cleared out which adjacent town?
Answer: Roncourt

Question: The surving soldiers of the 1st Guards Infantry Division launched a new attack against what?
Answer: ruins of St. Privat

Question: Which army was forced to retreat to Metz and surrender two months later?
Answer: French Army of the Rhine

Question: A blockade of what coastline was ordered by the French government at the start of the war?
Answer: North German coasts

Question: The small North German navy had how many ironclads at their disposal?
Answer: only five

Question: What was the name of the only turret ship that was able to conduct operations?
Answer: SMS Arminius

Question: How many ships was the French navy able to dispatch to sea?
Answer: 470

Question: In pursuing Prussian ships, what resource was quickly depleted?
Answer: coal reserves

Question: Which battle was the second of three key French losses?
Answer: Battle of Spicheren

Question: On what date did the battle of Spicheren take place?
Answer: 5 August

Question: Moltke had originally planned to kee Bazaine's army on what river?
Answer: the Saar River

Question: Which general's zeal and lack of planning led to cutting off Prince Charles from his calvary?
Answer: General von Steinmetz

Question: Which town was the site of General von Steinmetz's grave error?
Answer: Spicheren

Question: The General Staff developed by Moltke proved to be what?
Answer: extremely effective

Question: What was key factor did the Prussian General Staff study?
Answer: previous Prussian operations

Question: What was the goal in the General Staff studying past operations?
Answer: learn to avoid mistakes

Question: The structure also reinforced Moltke's ability control large formations spread out over what?
Answer: significant distances

Question: Who is essentially considered the commander in chief of the Prussian army?
Answer: The Chief of the General Staff

Question: What did the Germans expect to negotiate?
Answer: an end to the war