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| | GERMAN CONFEDERATION FACTS AND INFORMATION |
 | | The members pledged themselves to mutual defence, and jointly maintained the fortresses at Mainz, the city of Luxembourg, Rastatt, Ulm, and Landau. |
 | | All the constituent states of the German Confederation became part of the German_Empire in 1871, except Austria, Luxembourg, Limburg, and Liechtenstein. |
 | | Later to emerge as the dominant German state, the political base of a united Germany, and a power that would vie for continental preeminence toward the end of the nineteenth century, Prussia was at that time seemingly backward. |
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