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  1. War 1866 between Austria and Prussia,
  2. engineered by the German chancellor Bismarck.
  3. It was nominally over the possession of
  4. Schleswig-Holstein, but it was actually to
  5. confirm Prussia's superseding Austria as the
  6. leading German state. The Battle of Sadowa
  7. was the culmination of von Moltke's
  8. victories.
  9.