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Also Known As Austro-Prussian War
Date June 1866 - August 23, 1866
Location Bohemia • Hradec Králové • Venetia
Participants Austria • Bavaria • Hanover • Italy • Prussia • Saxony
Context German Confederation • North German Confederation • Treaty of Prague

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Schleswig-Holstein after the Seven Weeks' War, 1866
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Key People

Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
Franz Joseph
Franz Joseph
emperor of Austria-Hungary
Helmuth von Moltke, 1871
Helmuth von Moltke
German general [1800–1891]
Roon, engraving by K. Tetzel, 1861
Albrecht Theodor Emil, count von Roon
Prussian minister of war
Albert
Albert
king of Saxony
Albert, Archduke
Archduke Albert
Austrian field marshal
Goeben, engraving by H. Weger, 1871
August Karl von Goeben
Prussian general
Leonhard, count von Blumenthal
Prussian officer
Benedek, Ludwig von
Ludwig August, Ritter von Benedek
Austrian field marshal

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