D1.8.65: [Untitled]

D1.8.65: [Untitled]

Newspaper Clippings

Bleek writes that Italy's king (Victor Emmanuel II), with his army concentrated across Cremona and Piacenza, will unlikely resume the attack on Austria's Quadrilateral fortress system unless the enemy's attention gets divided. He reports on Garibaldi's movements, with Trient as the only viable entry point into Northern Tyrol after the failure at Stelvio Pass. He further speculates on the movements of the Garibaldians and ponders the importance of disrupting enemy railways as the usual strategic manoeuvre effective for isolating Austria's rural periphery. Despite being repulsed, the Garibaldians may have achieved their ends in Galicia (Eastern Europe). He pivots to movements and the overall distribution of the Prussian army, which has occupied the northern parts of Austrian Silesia, including 'Troppan' (Troppau?). He anatomises the Prussian army, the opposing forces, and its Hanseatic allies save for neutral Luxembourg (whose Grand Duke was also Holland's king). Bleek calls the arrangement of the German Confederation's diet imbecilic for lacking proper executive power.

Printed newsprint glued on paper

09 August 1866

One cut-out column of printed newsprint mounted on foolscap folio (warped).

War (Austrian-Italian-Prussian)

Pressed clippings of Victorian current affairs opinion pieces by Wilhelm Bleek.

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