Was "The Franco-Prussian War" the last major European war before the media was invented?

Question

what media was there during that time? and how the "media" began? how the media allowed more people to know what and how led to WW1 ,,and then WW2?

how large scale too was the Franco prussian war? how many were killed and where? how large were the armies on each side?

Answer 1

I take it you mean before the invention of movie film since newspapers had been reporting wars for several centuries and news reports had been sent by semaphore since the Napoleonic War and by telegraph since the Crimean. The late 19th century saw a flourishing of "popular" newspapers with the spread of literacy to most of the adult population. From about 1870 elementary education was compulsory in most of Europe, but even before then adult male literacy exceed 50% in most nations. These newspapers were often strongly politically partisan, and many took a state sponsored nationalist line, which reflected much of the teaching in schools. In Britain, France, Germany and Austria strongly imperialist curricula were followed.

The French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War led to a deep resentment among the French, especially with the loss of Alsace-Lorraine and the payment of reparations to the Germans. Their whole foreign policy was devoted to isolating Germany and her Austrian ally. In this she had the support of Russia, Italy and Serbia, who all felt threatened by the Austrian and Germans. Germany, and its Kaiser especially, had a bit of an inferiority complex about Britain, which led to the Naval Arms Race with each side building dreadnoughts at a fearsome cost. The newspapers and cinema news reports banged the drum for the contest on both sides.

Facts and figures about the war in the link below.

Answer 2

The Crimean war - 1853-56 was extensively reported and is usually regarded as the first major European war to be covered by the media - at least by William Russell of the London Times.



Prior to that you would have to go back to the Napoleonic wars which ended at Waterloo in 1815 to see the last wars that weren't covered by the media.

Answer 3

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