On the way to his new assignment he stayed for a couple of days at Varzin with the Bismarck family.

* Walter Flex, author of the Wild Geese poem, stayed at Varzin as a coacher of the Bismarck family in 1910 / 11.

" In 1937, when Corwin moved to Fargo, Churchill stayed in Bismarck.

King George V was extremely short of fuel and had stayed at the scene far longer than Tovey had thought it could, so another cause for friction between Tovey and his political and professional superiors was a signal that his flagship was to remain in action until Bismarck had sunk, " Bismarck must be sunk at all costs ... even if it ... means towing King George V ".

As a further snub, the Regent, who scorned Bismarck as a " Landwehrleutnant " ( reserve lieutenant ), had declined to promote him to the rank of major-general, normal for the ambassador to Saint Petersburg ( and important as Prussia and Russia were close military allies, whose heads of state often communicated through military contacts rather than diplomatic channels ).

Otto von Bismarck as Minister-President of Prussia, shown wearing insignia of a knight of the Order of Saint John ( Bailiwick of Brandenburg ) | Johanniterorden

Holstein joined the diplomatic service and in 1860 became an attaché at the Prussian embassy in Saint Petersburg under the authority of Otto von Bismarck and later served as a member of the legations at Rio de Janeiro, London, Washington, Florence, and Copenhagen.

However, having become alarmed at its growing isolation, Saint Petersburg, as Bismarck had feared, entered into the Franco-Russian Alliance in 1892 thus bringing to an end the French isolation.

* Bishop John J. Kinney ( November 9, 1976-June 28, 1982 ) appointed Bishop of Bismarck, Bishop of Saint Cloud ( 1995 )

It was here that he first met Prince Bismarck, with whom he formed a friendship which was afterwards renewed at St Petersburg.

After the formation of the German Empire in 1871, German chancellor Otto von Bismarck wanted to portray his nation as a peacemaker and preserver of the European status quo, as well as gain more power for the German Empire and unify Germany.

The combination of Bismarck, Defense Minister Albrecht von Roon, and Field Marshal Helmut von Moltke set the stage for victories over Denmark, Austria, and France, and led to the unification of Germany.

Following the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), German Cancellor Otto von Bismarck proposed harsh terms for peace — including the German occupation of the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine.

Abeken remained in charge for more than twenty years of Prussian politics, assisting Otto Theodor Freiherr von Manteuffel and Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.

Bismarck was well educated and cosmopolitan, with a gift for conversation.

Johanna was a shy, retiring and deeply religious woman — although famed for her sharp tongue in later life — and in his public life Bismarck was sometimes accompanied by his sister Malwine (" Malle ") von Arnim.

The monarch, though initially inclined to use armed forces to suppress the rebellion, ultimately declined to leave Berlin for the safety of military headquarters at Potsdam ( Bismarck later recorded that there had been a " rattling of sabres in their scabbards " from Prussian officers when they learned that the King would not suppress the revolution by force ).

This episode was the background for an altercation in the Frankfurt chamber with Georg von Vincke that led to a duel between Bismarck and Vincke and Carl von Bodelschwingh as impartial party, which ended without injury.

At first this seemed like a victory for Frederick of Augustenburg, but Bismarck soon removed him from power by making a series of unworkable demands, namely that Prussia should have control over the army and navy of the Duchies.

Napoleon III was taken prisoner at Sedan and kept in Germany for a while in case Bismarck had need of him to head a puppet regime ; he later died in exile in England in 1873.

Bismarck instead returned to conservative factions — including the Centre Party — for support.

Arnim was a member of a prominent Pomeranian family, related to Bismarck by marriage, and someone who saw himself as a rival and competitor for the chancellorship.

As a penalty for this indiscretion, Bismarck intended to remove Arnim from Paris and reassign him as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at İstanbul, which Arnim saw as a demotion given the relative importance of France to Germany as opposed to the Ottoman Empire.

Bismarck maintained good relations with Italy, although he had a personal dislike for Italians and their country.

As a result, Russo-German relations further suffered, with the Russian chancellor Gorchakov denouncing Bismarck for compromising his nation's victory.

Some in the German military clamored for a preemptive war with Russia, but Bismarck said that " Preemptive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.

Bismarck therefore joined in the Scramble for Africa.

Perhaps on account of his prominent role in Wilhelm's upbringing, Bismarck believed that he could dominate the young Kaiser and showed little respect for his policies in the late 1880s.

Even though Wilhelm supported the altered anti-socialist bill, Bismarck pushed for his support to veto the bill in its entirety.

The final break came as Bismarck searched for a new parliamentary majority, with his Kartell voted from power due to the anti-socialist bill fiasco.

Bismarck, forced for the first time into a situation he could not use to his advantage, wrote a blistering letter of resignation, decrying Wilhelm's interference in foreign and domestic policy, which was published only after Bismarck's death.

In December 1897, Wilhelm II visited Bismarck for the last time.

The new, largely conservative House was on much better terms with Bismarck than previous bodies ; at the Minister-President's request, it retroactively approved the budgets of the past four years, which had been implemented without parliamentary consent.

Numerous statues and memorials dot the cities, towns, and countryside of Germany, and the famous Bismarck Memorial in Berlin, not to mention numerous Bismarck towers on four continents.

: For exceptionally meritorious conduct ... as Commander Destroyer Squadron Twenty-three, in action against enemy Japanese forces northwest of the Bismarck Archipelago, at Kavieng, New Ireland, and Duke of York Island, February 17 to 23, 1944 ... ( He ) expertly directed his squadron in destroying two Japanese naval auxiliary vessels, one large cargo ship, a mine layer, four barges and inflicting severe damage on enemy shore installations and subsequently effected a skillful withdrawal without damage to his vessels ...

It follows I-94 west to Bismarck, where it resumes a generally northward course as a four lane highway.

The party holds its convention in the spring of election years, usually rotating the convention between four of the state's largest cities: Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks, and Minot.

They returned to the national championship, where Smith won four games, but Bismarck failed to repeat as champions.

The building contains a domed hall with a marble statue of Wilhelm I and four iron reliefs depicting Albrecht von Roon, Helmuth von Moltke, Otto von Bismarck and Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia.

The University of Mary ( abbreviated U-Mary ) is a four year Catholic university near Bismarck, North Dakota.

The University of Mary is a rural campus located about four miles ( 6 km ) south of Bismarck and sits on a hill overlooking the " Capital City.

Within a mere three or four centuries between about 1300 and 900 BC, the Lapita culture spread 6000 km further to the east from the Bismarck Archipelago, until it reached as far as Tonga and Samoa.

Mount Wilhelm received its name in 1888 when a German newspaper correspondent, Hugo Zöller, climbed the Finisterre Range, south-east of Madang, and named the Bismarck Range after the German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, and the four highest peaks of the range after him and his children: Ottoberg, Herbert-berg, Marienberg and Wilhelm-berg.

The Austro-Prussian War soon ended in 1866 but four years later, the Franco-Prussian War started in 1870 and Augusta continued to hold Bismarck personally responsible.

Bibb, the youngest of four sisters, was born in Bismarck, North Dakota and raised in Nelson County, Virginia.