Prussia played a crucial role in the history of Europe, shaping its political, military, and cultural landscape for centuries ...

When one looks at the principal arms being used by the militaries of major powers in the mid-19th century ... that as early as 1841, one German state—Prussia—was fielding a sophisticated ...

Its Sanskrit name, chaturanga, means “four-limbed,” referring to the military divisions of infantry ... In the late 18th century, the German mathematician Johann Hellwig determined to put ...

For many, Germany is a kind of caricature: a nation that was unified in the late 19th century by militant Prussia (bristling with soldiers and discipline) and that, in the 20th, launched two world ...