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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