The Austro-Prussian War: Every Day

In 1866, war broke out between Prussia and Austria that would change the power balance of Europe.
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Music used:
"Five Armies" by Kevin MacLeod
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Sources:
- Gibler, Douglas M. International Military Alliances, 1648-2005. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2009.
- “Ratification of the Treaty Between Prussia and Saxony.” The New York Times, October 26, 1866.
- Schmitt, Hans A. “Prussia’s Last Fling: The Annexation of Hanover, Hesse, Frankfurt, and Nassau, June 15 - October 8, 1866.” Central European History 8, no. 4 (1975): 316-47.
- Wright, Charles Harrison von., Hozier, Henry Montague. The Campaign of 1866 in Germany. United Kingdom: H.M. Stationery Office, 1872.

[@EmperorTigerstar]

My old video for this war from 10 years ago was inaccurate so I’m glad I got around to making an infinitely better version. Enjoy! Also: so many peace treaties…

[@austora_cool]

Xd

[@irtvlcanicline1904]

Really good remaster man

[@occam7382]

Very nice job with this remake, man. I never would've thought they went through this much just to finalize the peace. It's wild. One minor inaccuracy I noticed though: The Free City of Frankfurt is portrayed as being allied to Austria, when they were actually neutral in the war (but still got annexed anyway). Other than that, great job. I hope you have a great day.

[@kamilothman1899]

can you do a remaster of the akkadian history?

[@VietnameseBoii]

Actually you made this war in the Unification of Germany and Italy

[@MinorLife10]

I like how every single time Austria refuses to admit its defeat to Italy, so cedes territory to France instead.

[@akhilallamraju9079]

And France gives it right back to Italy 😂

[@KlausVonKuste]

That's because at that time, the Austrian empire didn't recognize italian indipendence or an Italian unify state. So, for Austria, at that time, there were only Kingdom of Sardinia and occupy territory

[@KlausVonKuste]

And also because, in that war, Austria was defeated mostly by Prussian troops. The 3 main battles fighted against Italy were win by Austria. So Italy won only because was allied with Prussia

[@maximilianrobespierre8365]

Hahaha I know right 😂

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

@@KlausVonKuste The Italians got both crushed on land (Custoza) and in sea (Lissa). So Austria thought a weak opponent didn't deserve any reward, since Prussia was the one who actually crushed Austria. The funny part is that Italian admiral Persano even celebrated "victory" after the battle of Lissa with the Italian population until the real outcome was published.

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

interesting to see a conflict where the resolution took longer than the actual fighting, it isn't nearly as flashy and attention-grabbing but i love getting into the details of treaties and the handover of territories

[@alexzero3736]

I can't remember anything like that...something kinda happen during Napoleon time, treaties of Congress of Vienna were not finished, until Napoleon came second time and was defeated after 100 days. Also there was Fiume question between Italy and Yugoslavia.

[@accountthatillusetocomment3041]

It would be really funny if France kept Venetia as a protectorate or something like that.

[@breaderikthegreat3224]

Potential changes in the timeline Italy doesn't join the Entente as they have literally nothing to gain and so join the Central Powers. The alpine front would be a stalemate, so not much happens. When the Soviets leave the war Austria-Hungary can send all of its forces to the Balkans and Western Front It is possible, that the Central Powers win and if they lose Italy would probably have to give the Papal States and Naples independence with the UK taking Sicilly and France taking Sardinia. UK also takes Somalia, Eritrea and Cyrenaica while France takes Tripolitania. Mussolini still rises to power

[@LordInvicta]

A re-established Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy with Napoleon III as its king would've been interesting

[@azlanadil3646]

That sounds pretty untenable, because of the whole Italy in the way. France had no troops in Venice, so either Italy would have had to basically give it up, or France would have to go to war. Both are possible (but extremely unlikely, though I guess I could see something like that happen in an absolute monarchy), but either way Italy would have just taken it back during the Franco-Prussian war, like they took Rome.

[@Efisio190]

Officially it was ceded to France, in reality it was already occupied and annexed

[@keremozcan138]

I don't know if this is correct but I remember reading this somewhere : Bismarck had a chance to enter to Vienna and devastate the enemy but he predicted that Austria would be a needed ally in the future for Prussia/Germany.

[@chrisl9934]

Not a difficult prediction to be honest given that Austria is the only other German-speaking nation.

[@hansspiegl8684]

@@chrisl9934 German speaker's were a minority in the Habsburg empire!

[@CommunistLlama]

@@hansspiegl8684 It's administration and ruling family and class were austrian or otherwise teutonophone though, still, even if only as a second language.

[@scoobydoo2587]

@@hansspiegl8684 German-speakers made up the largest part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the 1911 census at 23.36%, slightly ahead of Hungarian at 19.57%.

[@AnImperialGod]

Yep, Bismarck had the chance to continue the war and march to Vienna, but his instructions were that the war needed to be short in order not to make Austria a bittered and resentful enemy. He pressed for a quick peace that was easy on Austria.

[@javierm7087]

I like how Schleschwig-Holstein was the region they started the war yet it was the last to get incorporated (right before the North Germany Confederation). It looked like they forgot what the first objective was.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

as if it was just a pretext to declare war and grab much of Germany. As if.

[@reavercity568]

The objective was to unify germany under prussian rule

[@denzelbeni-hobbs5652]

Bismarck, Wilhelm and Ludwig standing in Versailles 1870 "Wait wasn't this whole thing about Spain?"

[@BrandonBDN]

Actually Germany was on the defensive Plus, Germany didn’t even care about Alsace. Actually many believe they intentionally tricked Austria into declaring war so they wouldn’t be the aggressor but could still smash them

[@inspectorsupremoelecto9291]

​@@BrandonBDNYes, Germany, a victim...

[@florinivan6907]

The double defeat to Prussia and Italy would lead to a major internal crisis in Austria leading to the creation of Austria-Hungary. The final form of the Habsburg Empire.

[@sallmandar1027]

Imagine Austria winning and forming the Super German Empire

[@StalkerX426]

​@@sallmandar1027 *_Super cursed timeline_*

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

Fun fact: The reason why Austria wanted to give Veneto to France instead of Italy was because of the Italian defeats on both land (Custoza) and in sea (Lissa). Austria felt like it was just Prussia who really beat them. Especially in the latter battle, when the inferior Austrian navy crushed a bigger, more modern and superior in firepower, and faster Italian fleet. The funny part is that Italian admiral Persano even celebrated "victory" with the Italian population until the real outcome was published. Persano was then judged by the Italian Senate. And about Veneto, everyone here was Italian, so they voted to join Italy.

[@Echoak95]

Austria also wanted the support of France against Prussia. And with the victories in Italy, the prussian victory at Königgrätz was equalized and the situation for the prussian army grew even worse with a cholera outbreak. Only Bismark recognized this and proposed a quick peace without territorial changes against the order of his king and government.

[@mrkalle7308]

Ihr habt ja auch nur gegen Preußen verloren. War aber trotzdem ein unsinniger Krieg, Österreich hätte einfach nur anerkennen müssen das in Deutschland Preußen bestimmt und keine Katholiken mehr. Endlich Freiheit vor schwachen Habsburger Kaisern.

[@Beeville777]

I really liked this video, specially the part where the N.G.C fully transformed into a nation-state just like being a type of a sneek peek of what germany was about to become in the 20st century.

[@papagaiofilmes6642]

I really liked this video, specially the part where the N.G.C says "it's federatin' time" and federated all over North Germany

[@Beeville777]

@@papagaiofilmes6642 hope you have a nice christmas this year

[@outerspace7391]

The most detailed video on this war so far, well done!!

[@OwenisaProsChannelAndOwenisMJ]

Great video.

[@grieftex803]

Nice video 👍

[@kobie303]

Love the video keep up the good work

[@I_am_bacon._.]

Great video! I just wrote a 3000 word essay on the second schleswig war, and noticed there has been very little coverage on the war. Can you please make a mapping video of the second schleswig war?

[@detroitdave9512]

Been waiting on this bad boy for a long time 🤩

[@dragonlukasmapping805]

EmperorTigerstar are you planning to make video about history of Czechoslovakia?

[@NasirFarooq365]

Hi I'm a huge fan of your videos i have a request for you please please please make a mughal safavid wars video please again please

[@riccardix1097]

What? Austria ceded Veneto to France? I'm Italian and I didn't know that

[@duckling3615]

Because Italy did not capture Venice and the Austrians knew they could beat the Italians they felt that giving it to Italy would be humiliating. But pressure from both Prussia and France made the Austrians still give the territory but as a final insult to Italy they gave it to France out of pure spite.

[@papagaiofilmes6642]

@@duckling3615 also because Austria didn't recognized Italia as a country yet. Just as Sardinia Piedmont and it's occupied territories.

[@Caosalfa]

Qué impresionante es la historia del siglo XIX.

[@lolnoobthemapper]

A very nice remake

[@laserrv5978]

If you wonder why there's the piece of Trentino under Italy, it's because Garibaldi defeated the austrians there, and hope to liberate Trento

[@requiem6465]

This makes me want to play EoanB again.

[@MercShame]

I had two commercials, first one was 3 minutes and I could skip. Second one was 2:30 and it wouldn't let me skip. This video is less than three minutes. What is youtube doing right now?

[@kommandantgalileo]

I like how most of the video is just peace talks.

[@mikemeta4908]

Nice video as usual. Hope the next video is the Franco- Prussian War.

[@TheDarkCeratosaurus]

he's already done that video

[@simonycontesta4296]

​@@TheDarkCeratosaurusmaybe like an updated version

[@lolnoobthemapper]

Sorry man to tell you this but, emperortigerstar won't remake a video UNLESS it's innacurate, The map Doesn't count for him because that's how it should look like, simple, He explained more in his Maps-Animation tutorial.

[@alexzero3736]

Fun fact: there were Pre-war talks between Italy and Austria to give Venetia to Italy for money compensation, but Austria refused in the end.

[@decay010]

You should do History of Europe 1700-2023

[@proman_6969]

The sound matches to countryball Europe: 1890 sound

[@JimmyM1975]

Please do the South Sudan Civil war on a Map

[@PontusMaestro]

Nice!

[@Argacyan]

not-so-Fun fact is also that this war is also known as the Brother-War

[@MinorLife10]

That's why Liechtenstein went to war only with Italy, not Prussia. Though, they barely even participated.

[@thunderbird1921]

We aren't certain about it, but there is a real chance this war is why one of my ancestors immigrated to America in 1866 (he was a Prussian from Pomerania). It wouldn't surprise me at all if he and his wife did indeed do it to avoid conscription, the war was unpopular with many folks and even Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia felt it was absolutely immoral (Bismarck ignored his protests though).

[@brittakriep2938]

For a short time prussian territory was occupied: The prussian province Hohenzollern in Southern Germany ( where Hohenzollern castle really is) by Württembergian troops. And a single castle at württembergian/ bavarian border by Bavarian troops.

[@VietnameseBoii]

Can you do Spanish Civil War plz?

[@farmonxqc9370]

Can anyone link me a source to Bavaria ratifying a treaty with Prussia? I am very curious about it

[@nemercy17]

Masterpiece

[@user-rv9dw3dc1g]

Please do The Franco-Dutch War every day if you haven’t already

[@erwannthietart3602]

Which one?

[@user-rv9dw3dc1g]

@@erwannthietart3602 is 1672-1678 thats one

[@mmmmallqui2176]

Remenber that war similar to StarCraft vs Shaman King.

[@aminzqrti7672]

Bismarck has always a plan

[@dayros2023]

A man of culture.

[@EGAproductions-a7Y]

Is this... *1890 COUNTRYBALL EUROPE MUSIC I HEAR???*

[@zikon4625]

I think you missed the fact that wallachia and moldavia united in 1862 and yet you still showed them divided in this map

[@Eric-mp3yi]

I honestly wonder why the Italians didn't demand/take Trentino or Trieste in this war

[@advocatusdiaboli4861]

Probably Prussian pressure, they wanted the war over ASAP to prevent French intervention.

[@papagaiofilmes6642]

1: they didn't perform good enough to demand that much. 2: they joined the war because prussia promised to give Veneto to them, but nothing more. 3: Austria only ceded Veneto because they lost to the Prussians, not the Italians. They thought they could beat Italy alone, so it would be too humiliating for them to cede it directly to Italy, that's why they gave the territory to France instead (which then gave to Italy).

[@dayros2023]

It wasn't part of the agreement made with the Prussians before the war. Garibaldi's troops actually almost reached Trento after winning the battle of Bezzecca, but he was ordered to turn back as an armistice had been declared.

[@irontusk341]

Eisen und Blut, Herr Bismark!

[@WOLF36554]

And to think all of this happened in one year.

[@blenzo8344]

THE KING IS BACK

[@Pausi10_00]

Remember Langensalza

[@laMoria]

great video. I think though you missrepresented savoy and nice, which were given to France only after the peace treaty with vienna.

[@MinorLife10]

No, the plebiscite was made after the Second War of Italian independence, so in 1859, the territory was ceded to France. Even before the Kingdom of Italy was officially proclaimed. Upd.: Looks like it was 1860, after all

[@EmperorTigerstar]

That was ceded to France in 1860

[@laMoria]

oh my bad, I always thought it was after venice@@EmperorTigerstar

[@maximilianrobespierre8365]

​@@laMoriaPlombiers Agreement

[@Benjey657]

It is weird to think that my home town was once besieged by the prussians.

[@wallaroo6510]

The map of Europe becomes that easier to draw

[@Themmrnmhrm]

why did austria cede venetia to france and not directly to italy?

[@stanchpandora3658]

Because they were sore losers and were too prideful to secede land to Italy, a new born state. They also knew that they could have beaten Italy if it wasnt for France and Prussia forcing them to give it up.

[@Sceptonic]

Because the Austrians felt like the Italians didnt deserve it because they didnt take the city of Venice so gave it to France out of spite

[@maximilianrobespierre8365]

Butthurtness

[@oicmapper]

Because Austria defeated italy, but because of Prussia, they couldnt kick them

[@oicmapper]

So they got angry, and did their best not to make italy look like a winner

[@eneskablan3063]

i watched 11 sec ad for 2 min video

[@solomon4554]

I don't see why you felt the need to remake this

[@EmperorTigerstar]

The old one was inaccurate and missing many things.

[@Argacyan]

It's always good to revisit older work

[@kolgre_yt1114]

Hey

[@abisaijorgevegaperez5289]

Try doing this in Victoria 3 you will have a world war every time, the game lacks a neutrality desire

[@Jvirus2]

Enemies to lovers…

[@BazingaIRanOutOfIdeas]

Who? 😅

[@papagaiofilmes6642]

Lmao

[@humamtaher9039]

This war is also known as the German-German war

[@pomidor1313]

This is the exact moment Prussia became Germany

[@FrenkyZ690]

Make the yugoslav wars pls

[@SuchDarkness]

i believe he already did

[@FrenkyZ690]

@@SuchDarkness I'm going to check

[@FrenkyZ690]

@@SuchDarkness no he didn't je made a entire history of yugoslavia but not the war itself

[@occam7382]

@@FrenkyZ690, he made a Yugoslav war video. It was just made the better part of a decade ago.

[@FrenkyZ690]

@@occam7382 ?

[@lukasrentz3238]

The Second of the three Wars of Unification

[@papagaiofilmes6642]

What is the first?

[@lukasrentz3238]

@@papagaiofilmes6642 The second Schleswig War in 1864, in which Prussia annexed the Duchy of Schleswig.

[@thunderbird1921]

GERMAN unification, that is. Don't forget the War of Italian Unification (1859-60).

[@oicmapper]

Why does Bavaria lose most of its wars in history, but the last one is a victory?

[@alexzero3736]

Why victory? They lost WW1.

[@oicmapper]

@@alexzero3736 last one of independent bavaria

[@joshtroufield]

cant we be friends :(

[@elisays258]

"Geschluben gefranken voneisbiervornamen" - Bismark, probably

[@Kingdomofkapsionedits]

Just seen this and is 30 minutes ago?

[@MrSnakeFilms]

South African Border War: Every month

[@AlexeyMaksim]

Austria wasn't even fighting

[@italiangarbageposting]

Italy winning in this war is like me passing the physics test because a classmate helped me copy.

[@GBOAC]

From the Danube to the sea, Austria shall be free!

[@somerandomguy1]

Im waiting for south german confederation...

[@MinorLife10]

Sorry if I misunderstood the joke, but it simply didn't happen for German Reich was formed in 1871

[@somerandomguy1]

@@MinorLife10 is a joke omg

[@MinorLife10]

@@somerandomguy1 fine. Sorry then

[@thomasfuller5932]

Honestly I think The Brother’s War would be a cooler name to refer it in English. Austro-Prussian war is just so boring.

[@reichsritter8955]

The name Austro-Prussian war is not correct. Prussia declared war on the German Federation.

[@wavemanj14]

If only France joined man, they really dug their own grave deciding not to

[@zerefsunlimitedshipworks]

Prussia could've still faced France with more troops than the French had on hand.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

France bet that the war would be long, exhausting both.

[@Ultima-Signa]

Lol, sounds like you graduated from a biased French history school… smh. France dug it’s own ´grave‘ when they arrogantly decided to invade Germany in 1870 for the millionth time in their history.

[@tylerbozinovski427]

Prussia really did have a thing against Saxony, didn't they? Why did the peace process take so long there?

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

Looking at history, Prussia already attacked Saxony during the Austrian War odf Succession and even tried to annex them twice, the first time in the Seven Years' War and the second time in the Congress of Vienna.

[@Austriaisthebest_]

Austria🇦🇹❤️🇦🇹

[@user-mj3qs9ky9q]

Yeah lolb

[@dark_9810]

6th comment

[@dvdgo2006]

AUSTRIA LLLLLLLL

[@fehervari98]

The Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar was already dissolved in 1860, so it shouldn't be shown on the map. Furthermore, one could argue that Hungary's statehood was also already de facto restored with the reconstitution of the separate, non-Imperial Chancellery and Governorate of Hungary in 1860, and with the legislative elections and the resumption of the Hungarian parliament in 1861. In that sense, illustrating Hungary as part of the Austrian Empire is not accurate.

[@Daniel-jm7ts]

Kingdom of Hanover my beloved 😭😭😭😭

[@Slovak.mapper]

😂 First

[@ryanjean-baptiste-dechampi9216]

Free money for xmas!! Every year!!!!!!😅

[@user-mj3qs9ky9q]

Team kiaser ford lol

[@phantomultima]

Early mfs ⬇