LAST CAMPAIGN IN HANOVER(Austro-Prussian War 1866)

Prussia's ruthless campaign to unite Germany under its leadership led to a short, sharp victorious war against Austria and her German allies in 1866. This lecture, by noted military historian Captain Henry Brackenbury, describes the shock tactics used by the Prussians in defeating the armies of Hanover which were about to be visited on France in the Franco-Prussian War.