Download or read book The Origin of the War of 1870 (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Wentworth Dilke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Origin of the War of 1870 No doubt the King was sincere when he told the Emperor of the French in 1868 that he had decided to maintain the then existing state of things in Germany, and that he was resolved upon a permanent peace. At the same time, he knew the necessity for the active military preparations of his country, which were at that time being rapidly pushed on. He could not be safe against the changing moods and against the domestic necessities of Napoleon III. But if the policy of dis armament, which at one moment attracted Louis Napoleon, had been maintained without a check in public and in private, it would have been difficult for the military advisers of the King of Prussia to cause him to consent to war, and so it would if at the last the French Ministry had been unanimously and firmly desirous of maintaining a peace for which alone their previous action had prepared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.