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> Perhaps there is a historian in the Group who can tell us how
> successful was the army's campaign of 1870.
Gee wiz, now you are telling me that this group needs lectures on basic
European history as well as chemical handling safety :-)
The Franco-Prussian war was a decided victory for the
dichromate-sausage eating Prussians (not quite Germans yet, but
soon-to-be). The fall of the French armies among other things gave rise
to the Paris commune and seige, which, gave inspiration to an
innovative French photographer named Nadar, who took himself up in a
balloon and, took the world's first aerial photographs of the seige
lines. Which brings us full circle back to photograhy.
Thanks for the laugh,
Carson Graves
carson@ileaf.com