The Royal Prussian Army was the land force of the Kingdom of Prussia, so central to Prussian identity that one observer called Prussia not a country with an army but an army with a country. Crushed by Napoleon at Jena and Auerstedt in 1806, it was rebuilt through Gerhard von Scharnhorst's reforms, and Prussian troops under Blucher and Gneisenau proved decisive at Waterloo in 1815. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Prussian Army's decisive 1866 victory over Austria at Koniggratz secured Prussian leadership of a unified Germany
The Prussian Army, leading the North German Confederation, defeated France in the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War, the war that unified Germany
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The Prussian Army under Frederick the Great fought the 1740-48 War of the Austrian Succession, seizing and holding Silesia
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After the severe defeat of the Prussians by Napoleon in 1806 in the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, the Prussian military rethought their military approach and aimed to build a college of military capability, the General Staff, as a systemic counter to the individual genius that had so soundly beaten them.
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