Manuscript working draft entitled "The Franco- Prussian War its causes & probable Consequences
1872380601872. 104 numbered leaves; written in in on folded sheets with text on right-hand side notes and corrections on left. With numerous corrections and deletions. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 6 x 8 inches0. Fine. 104 numbered leaves; written in in on folded sheets with text on right-hand side notes and corrections on left. With numerous corrections and deletions. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 6 x 8 inches0. A very early and well-written analysis by an amateur historian shortly afer the cessation of hostilities.<br/><br/>The author begins: "It is but a few months since Europe saw the end of a struggle of which history affords so example. There have been fiercer battles fought larger territories involved in the conflict but never was there witnessed a more futile pretext for war blind imprudence in the aggressor or more consummate generalship & complete success on the opposite side ."<br/><br/><br/>Possibly by an American given references to Abraham Lincoln the American Revolution "the freest nation in the world" etc. A good candidatate might possibly be Henry Percy Litchfield see OCLC 10644238 of Long Island whose papers are in George Washington U with the Litchfield family papers and whose privately printed book THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR OF 1870 Gracehill Brooklyn L.I. 1872 was among the earliest studies of the war. unknown books
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