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POTATO WAR (Kartoffelkrieg)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 204 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POTATO See also:WAR (Kartoffelkrieg) , the name given by the Prussians to the War of the Bavarian See also:Succession in 1778-79. The Prussians and a Saxon contingent, commanded by See also:Frederick the See also:Great and his See also:brother See also:Prince See also:Henry, were opposed to two See also:Austrian armies under Loudon and See also:Lacy. The operations consisted almost entirely of manoeuvres which had for their See also:object the obtaining or the denial to the enemy of See also:food-supplies. The war thus acquired the name of Kartoffelkrieg. Its duration was from the 3rd of See also:July 1778 to the See also:assembly of the See also:congress of See also:Teschen on the loth of See also:March 1779,and its See also:total cost 4,350,000 and 20,000 men to all parties.

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