Austro-Prussian War (Seven Weeks' War) | |||||||||
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Part of the wars of German unification | |||||||||
Battle of Königgrätz, by Georg Bleibtreu. Oil on canvas, 1869. |
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Austria-led German Confederation states
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Prussia-led German Confederation states Italy (from 20 June) |
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Strength | |||||||||
600,000 | 500,000 | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
Austria: over 71,000 killed, wounded and missing | 37,000 dead or wounded (German and Italian) |
Austria-led German Confederation states
Prussia-led German Confederation states
Italy (from 20 June)
The Austro-Prussian War or Seven Weeks' War (also known as the Unification War,Prussian–German War, German Civil War, War of 1866, Brothers War, or Fraternal War, and in Germany as the German War) was a war fought in 1866 between the German Confederation under the leadership of the Austrian Empire and its German allies on one side and the Kingdom of Prussia with its German allies on the other, that resulted in Prussian dominance over the German states. This conflict also paralleled the Third Independence War of Italian unification.