The Battle of Koniggratz (also known as Sadowa) was one of the most decisive battles of the 19th Century. In this battle the Prussian 1st and 2nd Armies fought with the Austrian Army of the North for control of Germany.
Koniggratz was the result of years of political maneuvering. By the mid-19th Century Prussia, previously thought of as the weakest of the German powers, was rising like a phoenix. This revival was, for the most part, a result of the influence of one man: Otto von Bismarck. The ‘Iron Chancellor' was a member of a generation of great political figures, the moving force behind their nation's respective revolutions.
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