Denmark and Prussia fought because of the Schleswig Holstein question, a messy dispute over who should control the duchies and whether they belonged with Denmark or the German Confederation. Ethnic ...

Observing the tussle for Greenland, it is hard not to recall Karl Marx’s aphorism that history repeats itself “the first time ...

Despite the long-forgotten nature and complexity of the matter, let’s try to understand what exactly caused the great powers of Denmark and Prussia to end up in back-to-back wars against one another… ...