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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... action of watercourses , are scat- tered in long ridges over the space included between the line of bluffs and the Meuse : the two hills of Le Mort Homme ( 295 metres ) , the Côte de l'Oie , and , farther to the South , the ridge of ...
... action of watercourses , are scat- tered in long ridges over the space included between the line of bluffs and the Meuse : the two hills of Le Mort Homme ( 295 metres ) , the Côte de l'Oie , and , farther to the South , the ridge of ...
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... action developed along the Côte du Poivre , es- pecially east of Douaumont , where it was di- rected against the village and fort of Vaux . The results were negative , except for a slight gain in the woods of Hardaumont . The 3d Corps ...
... action developed along the Côte du Poivre , es- pecially east of Douaumont , where it was di- rected against the village and fort of Vaux . The results were negative , except for a slight gain in the woods of Hardaumont . The 3d Corps ...
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... to perform prod- igies . The medium - calibre pieces had now come into action , particularly the 150 mm . guns , with their amazing mobility of fire , which shelled the French first line , as well as 20 WORLD'S WAR EVENTS.
... to perform prod- igies . The medium - calibre pieces had now come into action , particularly the 150 mm . guns , with their amazing mobility of fire , which shelled the French first line , as well as 20 WORLD'S WAR EVENTS.
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... had not previously been in action before Verdun . No gains were secured . Every foot of ground taken in the first rush was recaptured by French counter- attacks . During the night of the 18th a savage THE BATTLE OF VERDUN 21.
... had not previously been in action before Verdun . No gains were secured . Every foot of ground taken in the first rush was recaptured by French counter- attacks . During the night of the 18th a savage THE BATTLE OF VERDUN 21.
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... action on 31st May , 1916 , to the west- ward of the Jutland Bank , off the coast of Denmark . The ships of the Grand Fleet , in pursuance sweeping of the general policy of periodical sweeps through the North Sea , had left its bases on ...
... action on 31st May , 1916 , to the west- ward of the Jutland Bank , off the coast of Denmark . The ships of the Grand Fleet , in pursuance sweeping of the general policy of periodical sweeps through the North Sea , had left its bases on ...
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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 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 loss 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 station submarine success sunk supply taken Thiepval tion torpedo Turkish Turks United Verdun vessels village yards
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Page 237 - 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 232 - We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. 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...
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Page 234 - One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussian autocracy was not and could never be our friend is that from the very outset of the present war it has filled our unsuspecting communities and even our offices of government with spies and set criminal intrigues everywhere afoot against our national unity of counsel, our peace within and without, our industries and our commerce.
Page 195 - Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment of its present methods of submarine warfare against passenger and freight-carrying vessels, the Government of the United States can have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations with the German Empire altogether.
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