The instigator of this event, which was carried out by Heinrich Abeken, remarked that it waved "red cape in front of the face of the Gallic Bull."
The instigator of this event, which was carried out by Heinrich Abeken, remarked that it waved "red cape in front of the face of the Gallic Bull." Two years earlier the Spanish Glorious Revolution saw the deposition of Isabella II; Count Benedetti attempted to relay his government's opposition to the ascension of Leopold of Hohenzollern to the Spanish throne to the Kaiser. The message was doctored and the resulting conflict ended with the cession of Alsace and the Lorraine to Prussia. For 10 points-- name this 1870 correspondence manipulated by Otto von Bismarck that precipitated the beginning of the Franco-Prussian war, a note named for a Rhineland Prussian city.
The instigator of this event, which was carried out by Heinrich Abeken, remarked that it waved "red cape in front of the face of the Gallic Bull."
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