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Thirty-first episode: The Battle of Sadowa - 1866 German unification was once disputed between that of Prussia and that of Austria. It was during a lightning conflict, the Prussian-Austrian War, that the question was decided in favor of Prussia. But what allowed this victory was played out upstream, because the latter was the only one to have truly equipped itself with the means to master the new technologies reinventing logistics. During the 19th century, the appearance of railways and the densification of their network interested the military. But its use is extremely complex as soon as operations become important. It must therefore be planned, rationalized and all this requires an organization that can give a decisive advantage in terms of speed of deployment and mobility. Sources: -Buying Military Transformation: Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry, Peter Dombrowski, Eugene Gholz -https://fhs.brage.unit.no/fhs-xmlui/b... -Rails to the Front: The Role of Railways in Wartime, Augustus Veenendaal, Roger Grant -https://www.persee.fr/doc/geo_0003-40... -https://www.cairn.info/revue-les-cham... -Written military reports from Berlin: 1866-1870, Eugène Stoffel -http://www.institut-strategie.fr/Herb... -https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Gue... -https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Encore... -https://books.openedition.org/psn/262... -https://www.persee.fr/doc/bagf_0004-5... -https://journals.openedition.org/rhcf... -https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Ch... -Impact de l'art de la guerre napoléonien dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, Eugène Chalvardjian -https://battlefieldanomalies.com/1866... -https://battlefieldanomalies.com/the-... -The Army of Francis Joseph, Gunther E. Rothenberg -https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/res... Remarks: -My command of German is very patchy (nonexistent) and it is not impossible that I have missed several mechanisms of the Germanic confederation. My remarks should therefore not be taken as sufficient. -The map of the allies of Austria or Prussia is very simplified. There are too many small states. Moreover, the outline of the Prussian territory is also very imprecise, for the same reasons of multiplicity of small territories. -The development of the railway has its own dynamics in each country. My summary of its evolution is far too quick to reflect it. / surlechampdebataille / surlechampfr https://fr.tipeee.com/sur_le_champ Original credits music composed by Julien Théron Logo designed by Camille Sanchez.