Do you accept deliberate typos?
Enter Europe circa 1870. Prussia and France were at loggerheads, as Prussia wanted to become dominant power in Germany and France went “oh hell non”. So, in the hopes of averting war, the French ambassador to Prussia spoke with the Prussian king, discussing French demands. Their interaction was recorded down.
Now, the two’s interacted was actually pretty friendly, and the French ambassador himself would later describe the King as “polite and courteous”. But the record was altered, so that it looked as though the Prussian king had treated the French ambassador like shit and the French ambassador had rudely made demands from the Prussian King.
This hurled both France and all of Germany into an uproar. The French gathered in the streets of Paris, chanting “To Berlin! To Berlin!” Smaller German states immediately pledged their support to Prussia, even those that had been pro-French previously. This lead to the Franco-Prussia War, resulting in Germany’s unification.
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