4h 56min, feb 18, 1866 y - Diplomatic Conditions
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The international situation was favourable to an aggressive program of unification in the German Confederation. Since its defeat in the Crimean War (1853–56), Russia had ceased to play a decisive role in the affairs of the Continent. Britain remained preoccupied with the problems of domestic reform. And Napoleon III was not unwilling to see a civil war east of the Rhine that he might eventually use to enlarge the boundaries of France- especially after a meeting with Bismarck at Biarritz, where he had been orally promised land in the Rhine
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German Unification
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