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Seven Weeks' War
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Seven Weeks' War

War 1866 between Austria and Prussia, engineered by the German chancellor Bismarck. It was nominally over the possession of Schleswig-Holstein, but it was actually to confirm Prussia's superseding Austria as the leading German state. The Prussian victory at the Battle of Sadowa was the culmination of General von Moltke's victories.



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He advocated in various ways the decentralization of tactical command and control, and practiced this method of command and control during the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871).
 
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