The winning side in this war suffered an early loss at the battle of Worth.
The winning side in this war suffered an early loss at the battle of Worth. A key engagement in this war took place near Saint Privat, while the engagement near Mars-la-Tour was the last major cavalry engagement in western Europe. Its immediate cause was the candidacy of Leopold for the Spanish throne, though some of the pretext was provided by an imagined insult to Count Benedetti. After retreating from Gravelotte, Marshall Bazaine was trapped near Metz, and thus was unable to assist MacMahon when von Moltke crushed him at the battle of Sedan. For ten points, identify this conflict set off by the Ems dispatch which resulted in the deposition of the Emperor and establishment of the Third Republic, as well as the 1871 proclamation of Willhelm I as German emperor.
The winning side in this war suffered an early loss at the battle of Worth.
{Franco-Prussian} War