Northern Europe · Animated schematic fronts
German unification: Second Schleswig War
Prussia and Austria fought Denmark over Schleswig and Holstein.
Schematic front line based on standard overview maps of the main phases. Movement between the dated moments is smoothly interpolated and is not a day-by-day reconstruction; the closing edges of the coloured areas are graphic and may include sea or uninvolved land. Thanks to the Danish fleet the islands stayed out of reach, except for Als.
- Front line
- Attack
Prussian and Austrian troops cross the Eider; the Danes stand in the Danevirke.
- Prussia and Austria
- Denmark