Record

Document Reference	Bu 19/37
Title	Letter from Lord Augustus Loftus, Berlin, Prussia, to Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia; 11 May 1866.
Date	11 May 1866
Extent	4 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Informs him that things were gradually drifting into war; states that Austria would occupy Saxony and that the whole Prussian army was mobilized; states that the whole of Europe was in an alarming state and war was not popular in Berlin but Bismarck had showed courage and his prestige had increased with the people and the King; informs him that Benedetti had received nothing from Paris and that he also regarded war as inevitable.
Term	military campaigns, Austro-Prussian War 1866

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6717	Benedetti; Vincent (1817-1900); Count; French diplomat	1817-1900
NA6231	Wilhelm I (1797-1888); German Emperor; ( King of Prussia from 1861 German Emperor from 1871)	1797-1888
NA140	Bismarck; Otto E.L. von (1815-1898); Prince; German statesman and Prussian minister-president	1815-1898
NA6208	Loftus; Augustus W.F.S. (1817-1904); Lord; diplomat	1817-1904
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882