254 Chapter 3
MID#4137
Started in February 1998. See the narrative in the 2 United States of America/345
Yugoslavia dyad dispute list.
MID#4186
Started in February 2000. See the narrative in the 2 United States of America/345 Yugo-
slavia dyad dispute list.
MID#4343
Started in November 2000. See the narrative in the 2 United States of America/345 Yugo-
slavia dyad dispute list.
235 Portugal/365 Russia
MID#4342
Started in April 1999. See the narrative in the 2 United States of America/365 Russia dyad
dispute list.
240 Hanover/255 Germany
MID#502
Dispute Number: 502
Date(s): February 12, 1864 to July 28, 1864
Participants: 255 Germany/240 Hanover, 269 Saxony
Outcome (and Settlement): Compromise (Negotiated)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: The “Rendsburg Incident” occurred after most of the hostilities in the
Second Schleswig War had ceased. During the conflict, Hanoverian and Saxon troops
had seized the Holstein fortress of Rendsburg. Prussian elites, to a man, wanted them
removed. Wilhelm I ordered his nephew, Prince Friedrich Karl, to seize the castle.
Meanwhile, Bismarck ordered a public relations campaign against Hanover, citing
miscellaneous street brawls between Prussian and Hanoverian soldiers. Under pro-
test, the troops vacated the castle before the 6,000 Prussian troops, commanded by
Friedrich Karl, entered the castle and assumed control. Friedrich Ferdinand Count von
Beust—the minister president of Saxony—protested, as did Hanover and many other
of the Mittelstaaten in the confederation.
This situation could have unfolded in a number of ways. Austria could have
punished Prussia by deciding to use the occasion to press their preference for an
Augustenberg candidacy. Austria could have sought mediation among Prussia