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Re:Pasteur and the beer of national revenge (2017) by guimplen on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:16AM (#38840435)
You are being nitpicky about the names while missing the substance. The first battle was the French capture of Saarbrucken. So no, Prussia did not "attacked first".
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Re:Pasteur and the beer of national revenge (2017) by skywal_l on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @07:28AM (#38840929)
I am sorry you feel I am being nitpicky.

You are right that behind words like "attack" or "Germany" they are complex human interactions that are hard to understand in retrospect, but I fell obligated to push that discussion a little further: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ems_Dispatch

Have a good day.

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