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... chief of the General Staff fully provided against all eventualities . These schemes were founded on Clausewitz's view of the objects to be pursued in a war against France - in the first place the defeat of the French field armies and in ...
... chief of the General Staff fully provided against all eventualities . These schemes were founded on Clausewitz's view of the objects to be pursued in a war against France - in the first place the defeat of the French field armies and in ...
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... chief ,. Prince Frederick Charles resumed the interrupted offensive , pushing westward with four corps and four cavalry divisions Le Mans . which converged on Le Mans . There on the 10th , 11th and 12th of January 1871 a stubbornly ...
... chief ,. Prince Frederick Charles resumed the interrupted offensive , pushing westward with four corps and four cavalry divisions Le Mans . which converged on Le Mans . There on the 10th , 11th and 12th of January 1871 a stubbornly ...
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... chief ( or Hauptsynagoge ) , lying in the Börnestrasse , is an attractive building of red sandstone in the Moorish - Byzantine style . Public Buildings . - Of the secular buildings in Frankfort , the Römer , for almost five hundred ...
... chief ( or Hauptsynagoge ) , lying in the Börnestrasse , is an attractive building of red sandstone in the Moorish - Byzantine style . Public Buildings . - Of the secular buildings in Frankfort , the Römer , for almost five hundred ...
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... chief burgo- master ( Oberbürgermeister ) is nominated by the emperor for twelve years , and the second burgomaster must receive the emperor's approval . 1801 that the last mouldering head of the Fettmilch company. Since 1885 the city ...
... chief burgo- master ( Oberbürgermeister ) is nominated by the emperor for twelve years , and the second burgomaster must receive the emperor's approval . 1801 that the last mouldering head of the Fettmilch company. Since 1885 the city ...
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... chief oil region of the state , and from it great quantities of refined oil are shipped . Natural gas also abounds . The city's manufacture include oil - well supplies , boilers , engines , steel castings , iron goods , lumber , bricks ...
... chief oil region of the state , and from it great quantities of refined oil are shipped . Natural gas also abounds . The city's manufacture include oil - well supplies , boilers , engines , steel castings , iron goods , lumber , bricks ...
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