... quite some time; in 1848 the Liberal Nationalists saw the opportunity to unite Germany following the revolutions of "48, and the subsequent changes in government and constitution, on this occasion the nationalist outcry resulted in the formation of a Federal Diet at Frankfurt. This German Confederation excluded Austria, because of her anti-unity policy, preferring rather a loose "middle-Europe" coalition. Ever ... since first being appointed Prussian representative to the Federal Diet in 1851, Bismarck had urged the Prussian Government to seize power in the German Confederation. He had b...

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