In the year 1868 the queen Isabella II. de Borbón was banished from Spain in the "Glorious Revolution" and Prince Leopold von Hohenzollern was offered the throne. Emperor Napoleon III. of France, the nephew of Napoleon I., saw this as a threat to France and eventually was pushed by his generals, who were confident in victory against the germans, to declare war on Germany to hinder Leopold from becoming king of Spain...
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