🇬🇧🇩🇪 Historian & journalist. Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. FRHistS. ✍️Washington Post, Spectator, UnHerd and others. 📚Blood and Iron.
#OTD in 1864, the Battle of Dybbøl was fought between Denmark and Prussia in the Second Schleswig War. Denmark lost this key battle and the war. Schleswig and Holstein were occupied by Prussia and Austria respectively - an important part of the German unification process #History