Ems Dispatch
The Ems Dispatch ,sometimes called the Ems Telegram, caused France to declare the Franco-Prussian War in July 1870.
The actual dispatch was an internal message from the Prussian King's vacationing site to Bismarck in Berlin, reporting demands made by the French ambassador.
It was Bismarck's released statement to the press that became known asEms Dispatch.
The name referred to Bad Ems, a resort spa east of Koblenz on the Lahn river, then situated in Hesse-Nassau, a new possession of Prussia.
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