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July 19
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1870 Napoleon III ordered his troops to attack Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismark and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. A series of swift Prussian and German victories in eastern France culminating in the Siege of Metz and the Battle of Sedan saw Napoleon III captured and the army of the Second Empire decisively defeated. This led to a revolutionary uprising called the Paris Commune and the establishment of the German Empire under the Prussian King Wilhelm, establishing Germany as a nation-state. In 1890 King George II of Greece was born. He was the eldest son of Prince Constantine of Greece and his wife, Princess Sophia of Prussia. George pursued a military career, training with the Prussian Guard at the age of 18, then serving in the Balkan Wars as a member of the 1st Greek Infantry. When his grandfather was assassinated in 1913, his father became King Constantine I and George became the crown prince.
TENNIEL (Sir John, 1820-1914, Caricaturist & Illustrator of ‘Alice in Wonderland’) Original Political Cartoon, in pencil, signed with his monogram ‘JT’, of the Angel of Peace confronting Napoleon III in civilian dress, who attempts to disarm her by raising his hat to her, she points to the numbers of soldiers listed on a sheet in her hand, ‘L’Armée Françoise 800,000’ and ‘Garde Nationale 400,000’, in the background French troops are marching past with fixed bayonets, 8” x 6¼” in margins 10½” x 7½” on stiff paper, lightly held in a folding window mount 14½” x 12¼”, no place, no date, but 1868 54242
GEORGE II (1890-1947, King of Greece) Presentation photo signed as King and inscribed to Sir Sydney Waterlow, (1878-1944, British Minister at Bangkok, Addis Adaba, Sofia and Athens) showing him full length in uniform, in original hand beaten silver frame with monogram at the head, 17½” x 14”, Athens 1939 36348
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