... Unite before 1860? Various individual and different factors equal in significance contributed towards inhibiting Germany failing to unite before 1860; these included: the Bund; Austro Prussian Rivalry; Inter-State rivalry; popular indifference; the failure of the Frankfurt Diet and the 1848 Revolution and the lack of foreign support; each factor had a direct baring on the failure of Germany uniting. The Bund ... or supportive at all of trading autonomy for unification; they wanted to retain their armies, tax raising rights and power of a leadership role which carries connotations with h...

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... duchies, a move in breach of the Gastein Convention which had established the current status of the duchies. The war, contrary to international expectations, went the way of Prussia; victory enabled most of the peace treaty clauses to be dictated by Prussia. The German Confederation was reformed under the name of the New German Confederation, including a constitution that excluded Austria. The fact ... this time, having been dissuaded in the case of Austria. Paris was, eventually, captured and on 18 January 1871 King William I of Prussia was crowned German Emperor on a wave of popular p...

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