Sentences with phrase «disastrous war campaign»

And we can be sure the king was looking for more money, because he had probably lost a lot of money is his disastrous war campaign against the Greeks in which he lost almost his whole army.

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Graham here explores the relationship French artists had to the disastrous Franco - Prussian war (1870 - 1871); many young artists, including the promising impressionist painter Jean Frederic Bazille, died at the battle of Beaune - Rolande in 1870, whilst de Neuville constructed his reputation on his ability to create a heroic iconography associated with the campaign.