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TitleLetter from Lord Augustus Loftus, Berlin, Prussia, to Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia; 29 June 1866.
Date29 June 1866
Extent4 ff
LevelPiece
Content DescriptionInforms 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.
Termmilitary campaigns, Austro-Prussian War 1866

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Persons
CodePersonNameDates of existence
NA6526George V (1819-1878); King of Hanover; reigned 1851-1866 also 2nd Duke of Cumberland1819-1878
NA6233Buchanan; Georgiana E. (-1904); Lady Buchanan; née Stuart 2nd wife of Andrew Buchanan-1904
NA140Bismarck; Otto E.L. von (1815-1898); Prince; German statesman and Prussian minister-president1815-1898
NA6231Wilhelm I (1797-1888); German Emperor; ( King of Prussia from 1861 German Emperor from 1871)1797-1888
NA144Stanley; Edward H. (1826-1893); 15th Earl of Derby; statesman1826-1893
NA314Disraeli; Benjamin (1804-1881); 1st Earl of Beaconsfield; statesman; created Earl of Beaconsfield 18761804-1881
NA6662Cecil; Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne- (1830-1903); 3rd Marquess of Salisbury; succ. 1868; Prime Minister 1885, 1886-921830-1903
NA6208Loftus; Augustus W.F.S. (1817-1904); Lord; diplomat1817-1904
NA136Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat1807-1882
Places
CodeSet
PL3436/Cologne/Prussia
PL3437/Prague/Central Europe
PL1894/Hanover/Germany
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