Record

Document Reference	Bu 19/40
Title	Letter from Lord Augustus Loftus, Berlin, Prussia, to Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia; 29 June 1866.
Date	29 June 1866
Extent	4 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Informs him that the 'race was on for Cologne' and if the southern German army took Cologne, communications would be badly affected; suggests that the best route for Lady Buchanan to take would be to travel by sea from Hamburg; discusses the progress of the war and the possibility of Prague falling to the Crown Prince; reports that the King of Hanover had capitulated together with his entire army and that the King and Bismarck were going to Reichenberg; comments on changes in domestic politics stating that Stanley was to be Foreign Secretary, Cranborne [later 3rd Marquess of Salisbury] Home Secretary and Disraeli was to go to the Colonial Office.
Term	military campaigns, Austro-Prussian War 1866

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6526	George V (1819-1878); King of Hanover; reigned 1851-1866 also 2nd Duke of Cumberland	1819-1878
NA6233	Buchanan; Georgiana E. (-1904); Lady Buchanan; née Stuart 2nd wife of Andrew Buchanan	-1904
NA140	Bismarck; Otto E.L. von (1815-1898); Prince; German statesman and Prussian minister-president	1815-1898
NA6231	Wilhelm I (1797-1888); German Emperor; ( King of Prussia from 1861 German Emperor from 1871)	1797-1888
NA144	Stanley; Edward H. (1826-1893); 15th Earl of Derby; statesman	1826-1893
NA314	Disraeli; Benjamin (1804-1881); 1st Earl of Beaconsfield; statesman; created Earl of Beaconsfield 1876	1804-1881
NA6662	Cecil; Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne- (1830-1903); 3rd Marquess of Salisbury; succ. 1868; Prime Minister 1885, 1886-92	1830-1903
NA6208	Loftus; Augustus W.F.S. (1817-1904); Lord; diplomat	1817-1904
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882