World's War Events: Recorded by Statesmen, Commanders, Historians and by Men who Fought Or Saw the Great Campaigns, Volume 2P. F. Collier & son, 1919 - World War, 1914-1918 |
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... Troops take Verdun . The determination with which the Germans followed out this plan and the reckless way in which they drew on their resources leave no doubt as to the importance the operation held for them . They staked everything on ...
... Troops take Verdun . The determination with which the Germans followed out this plan and the reckless way in which they drew on their resources leave no doubt as to the importance the operation held for them . They staked everything on ...
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... troops on the right bank had therefore to fight with a river at their backs , thus imperiling their re- treat . A grave danger , this , in the face of an enemy determined to take full advantage of Villages defense . Troops selected in ...
... troops on the right bank had therefore to fight with a river at their backs , thus imperiling their re- treat . A grave danger , this , in the face of an enemy determined to take full advantage of Villages defense . Troops selected in ...
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... Troops selected in October . the circumstance by attacking with undreamed- of violence . The German preparation was , from the start , formidable and painstaking . It was probably under way by the end of October , 1915 , for at that ...
... Troops selected in October . the circumstance by attacking with undreamed- of violence . The German preparation was , from the start , formidable and painstaking . It was probably under way by the end of October , 1915 , for at that ...
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... troops to forestall an offensive at some other point . This was the period of German " fixation , " lasting from Periods April to the middle of July . It then became fixation . the object of the French to hold the German forces and ...
... troops to forestall an offensive at some other point . This was the period of German " fixation , " lasting from Periods April to the middle of July . It then became fixation . the object of the French to hold the German forces and ...
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... troops sent forward over the plateau had penetrated Germans the French positions to a depth of eight kilo- eight kilo- metres , and were masters of the most im- metres . portant elements of the defense of the fortress . Verdun and its ...
... troops sent forward over the plateau had penetrated Germans the French positions to a depth of eight kilo- eight kilo- metres , and were masters of the most im- metres . portant elements of the defense of the fortress . Verdun and its ...
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5th Battle Squadron action advance alien enemy Allies Alpini American Ancre Army artillery assault attack Austrians Battle Fleet Battle of Verdun Battle Squadron battle-cruisers Beersheba Belgium bombardment British camps Captain captured carried citizens Combles command Corps Cossacks counterattacks course cruisers defense Delville Wood destroyers divisions Duma east enemy's engaged ernment fighting fire flank Flotilla force France French front Gaza Ginchy ground Guillemont guns heavy hostile Imperial German Government infantry July La Boisselle Le Sars Light-cruiser Litenie ment Meuse miles military morning mounted troops munitions necessary neutral Nevsky night offensive officers operations organization peace Petrograd port position Pozières preparation President prisoners railway reached ridge river road Roubaix Royal Flying Corps Rumania Russian sent Sheria ship soldiers Somme submarine success sunk supply taken Thiepval tion took torpedo Turkish Turks United Verdun vessels village yards
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Page 235 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 235 - It is a distressing and oppressive duty, Gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus addressing you. There are, it may be. many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance.
Page 230 - It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools.
Page 228 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
Page 228 - It will involve the organization and mobilization of all the material resources of the country to supply the materials of war and serve the incidental needs of the nation in the most abundant and yet the most economical and efficient way possible.
Page 206 - Nothing contained in this convention shall be so construed as to require the United States of America to depart from its traditional policy of not intruding upon, interfering with, or entangling itself in the political questions or...
Page 233 - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a government, following such methods, we can never have a friend; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic governments of the world.
Page 231 - Cunningly contrived plans of deception or aggression, carried, it may be, from generation to generation, can be worked out and kept from the light only within the privacy of courts or behind the carefully guarded confidences of a narrow and privileged class. They are happily impossible where public opinion commands and insists upon full information concerning all the nation's affairs.
Page 233 - We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.
Page 231 - Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic at heart, in all the vital habits of her thought, in all the intimate relationships of her people that spoke their natural instinct, their habitual attitude towards life.