Record

Document Reference	Bu 15/55
Title	Letter from 2nd Baron Bloomfield [J. Bloomfield], Vienna, Austria, to Sir A. Buchanan, Berlin, Prussia; 10 Feb 1864.
Date	10 February 1864
Extent	4 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Comments that the Schleswig-Holstein situation meant that they would both be kept busy; discusses the current state of affairs; states that the English Government should be careful what was said on the subject if they were not prepared to go to war over the issue; does not feel that Austrian and Prussian declarations were unsatisfactory; comments on the possibility of the admission of the Duke of Augustenburg to the Frankfurt Diet; reports that the Emperor and the people of Austria were overjoyed at the retreat of the Danish army; states that Rechberg is being led by Bismarck on the Schleswig-Holstein issue; considered that the Danes had fought well and that the retreat to Alsen Island would be painful to the people of Copenhagen.
Term	military campaigns, Second Schleswig-Holstein War 1863-4

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA140	Bismarck; Otto E.L. von (1815-1898); Prince; German statesman and Prussian minister-president	1815-1898
NA6540	Rechberg; Johann B. (1806-1899); Count; Austrian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister	1806-1899
NA6421	Franz Joseph I (1830-1916); Emperor of Austria; ( succeeded 1848)	1830-1916
NA6565	Friedrich VIII (1829-1880 ); Duke of Schleswig-Holstein; ( Duke Friedrich of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg)	1829-1880
NA6057	Bloomfield; John A.D. (1802-1879); 2nd Baron Bloomfield; diplomat	1802-1879
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882