Wed Feb 08, 2012 5:23 am
could be abused as such,
however, indeed it was negotiated in 1866.
Württenberg refused even the though, Austria later rejected any alliance with the other German states at all.
so it was done with treaties of defense, the last who "joined" informally the "Northern federation" with mutual support was Hessen-Darmstad in 1867
...not paid by AGEOD.
however, prone to throw them into disarray.
PS:
‘Everything is very simple in War, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen War . . . in War, through the influence of an infinity of petty circumstances, which cannot properly be described on paper, things disappoint us, and we fall short of the mark.‘
Clausewitz