... . He had been instrumental in advising the Prussian Authorities to block the Austrian's plans for an enlarged Zollvereign, and in his role as Chancellor from 1861 to 1890, he sought to enlarge Prussia and unite the German States - under Prussian leadership. In 1862 Bismarck made his famous speech in which he publicly stated that "the great questions of the day [German unity] will not be ... military integration before any final political unity had been agreed, and it left Bismarck with only one job - to find an enemy (or a cause) against which all of the German States, north and south, c...

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