Examples of use of Franco-Prussian
1. It was awarded to troops in the Franco–Prussian war of 1871–71, WW1 and WW2.
2. After the Franco–Prussian War of 1870, France also prospered: In 1875 it adopted universal male voting; in 1881 and 1882 it embraced compulsory schooling up to age 13.
3. Over the centuries the same ground would be strewn with the gore of the Hundred Years War, the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic wars, the Franco–Prussian War, World War I and World War II.
4. The Crimean war was a minor episode that took place in backwaters of Eurasia, and the Franco–Prussian war was a comic opera that lasted less than a year – most of it the static siege of Paris.
5. Charles de Gaulle, a profound conservative, said of another such, Otto von Bismarck –– de Gaulle was thinking of Bismarck not pressing his advantage in 1870 in the Franco–Prussian War –– that genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.