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The Franco-Prussian War was a conflict between France and Prussia that lasted from July 19, 1870, to May 10, 1871. The war resulted in a decisive Prussian victory, the unification of Germany under Prussian leadership, and the fall of the Second French Empire.

The Crimean War was a conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which Russia lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia. The main theatre of war was the Crimean Peninsula, located on the northern coast of the Black Sea.

The Directory was the five-person executive body that governed France from 1795 to 1799, during the French Revolution.