Major States 981
Coding changes: End Date changed from May 7, 1871.
MID#2169
Dispute Number: 2169
Date(s): June 29, 1871
Participants: 220 France/255 Germany
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: During the post-ratification discussions on the Treaty of Frankfort (1871),
there were several complications. One was the event on June 29, 1871, when the
reconstituted French army held a demonstration at Longchamp, a city in eastern
France. Germany protested this act, stating that France was violating Article X of the
peace treaty, which had forbidden the country to have more than 80,000 men in the
army around Paris and Versailles.
Coding changes: Start Date changed from June 24, 1871.
MID#2170
Dispute Number: 2170
Date(s): November 1885 to December 24, 1885
Participants: 255 Germany/220 France
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (Negotiated)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: Germany was a latecomer in the Scramble for Africa, but a July 5, 1884,
agreement with the Chief of Togo gave Germany a strip of territory, Togoland, that
became part of the German Empire. This agreement immediately acquired border
issues with France, who had preeminence in West Africa. Tensions mounted amid the
uncertainty of mutual obligations and borders, Germany threatened, and a December
24, 1885, protocol was signed. In the protocol France abandoned all claims to Porto-
Seguro and Anecho, the border issues forced by the agreement with the Chief of Togo.
Coding changes: End day changed from Missing.
MID#2369
Dispute Number: 2369
Date(s): April 21, 1887 to April 28, 1887
Participants: 255 Germany/220 France
Outcome (and Settlement): Released (Negotiated)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: This dispute concerns Schnaebele Affair and follows soon after the
Boulanger Affair. On April 21, 1887, a mid-level French officer named Guillaume
Schnaebele was arrested at the border between Germany and France. The nature of
the arrest was a source of controversy. The Germans arrested him for illegally cross-
ing the border and charged him with espionage. Meanwhile, the French countered—as
Schnaebele himself claimed—that he was invited over the border by a German border