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Prussia mobilized 132,000 men of its military in 1859 to prepare for war with France and Piedmont-Sardinia who were in the process of defeating the Austrians in Italy at the time.

During this mobilization, the Prussian military command realized how woefully ill-equipped and inefficient their mobilization process and army training was, which directly led to their military reforms in the following years that built the Prussian armies that crushed Austria and France in in the 1860s and 1870s.

What if Prussia did not decide to mobilize troops in preparation for war in 1859? Would this lead to no military reforms? How would Prussian politics/diplomacy play out in its quest to unify Germany? Does France end the 1900s as the premier continental European power and do the Bonaparte’s live on?
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