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Schleswig War, First

Years: 1848 - 1850

The First Schleswig War is the first round of military conflict in southern Denmark and northern Germany rooted in the Schleswig-Holstein Question, contesting the issue of who should control the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.

The war, which lasts from 1848–1851, also involves troops from Prussia and Sweden.

Ultimately this war is inconclusive and a second conflict erupts in 1864: the Second Schleswig War.

“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to know them, if only to avoid them. The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. Let us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage and let us tear off the mask."

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)