Tradition of London
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Prussian Army 1675-1898 Of all the countries synonymous with military prowess and the military uniform none is more renowned than Prussia.. From its earliest days as an Electorate to its military dominance of Europe from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to its defeat in World War I Prussia and later the Imperial German Empire it dominated was the master of all that was military. The Prussian Army was the most professional army in Europe during the mid 18th Century Reign of Frederick the Great, later after the defeats by Napoleon at the beginning of the 19th Century the entire army and officer class were reorganized and reformed and it was the arrival of the Prussians on the battlefield of Waterloo that sealed the end of Napoleons reigin. The victories against the numerically superior Austrian and allied forced in 1866 and the defeat of the French during the Franco Prussian War in the early 1870s left Prussia as perhaps the greatest military force in the world at that time. Their uniforms and in particular the spiked helmets of the late 1800s were copied by armies around the world.