The Great Events of the Great War: A Comprehensive and Readable Source Record of the World's Great War, Emphasizing the More Important Events, and Presenting These as Complete Narratives in the Actual Words of the Chief Officials and Most Eminent Leaders ... Presenting Documents from Government Archives and Other Authoritative Sources, with Outline Narratives, Indices, Chronologies, and Courses of Reading on Sociological Movements and Individual National Activities, Volumen4Charles Francis Horne, Walter Forward Austin National alumni, 1923 |
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... Assault on Verdun ( Feb. 21 ) The Mightiest Effort of Germany's Artillery 38 COUNT DE SOUZA , noted French military authority . LORD NORTHCLIFFE , Britain's foremost newspaper director . GENERAL VON FALKENHAYN , German Chief of Staff ...
... Assault on Verdun ( Feb. 21 ) The Mightiest Effort of Germany's Artillery 38 COUNT DE SOUZA , noted French military authority . LORD NORTHCLIFFE , Britain's foremost newspaper director . GENERAL VON FALKENHAYN , German Chief of Staff ...
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... Assault ( June and July ) The Battles for Fort Vaux and Thiaumont GABRIEL HANOTAUX , French historian , statesman and Mem- ber of the French Academy . EDWIN GREWE , British historian . MARSHAL JOSEPH JOFFRE . LETTERS OF PARTICIPANTS ...
... Assault ( June and July ) The Battles for Fort Vaux and Thiaumont GABRIEL HANOTAUX , French historian , statesman and Mem- ber of the French Academy . EDWIN GREWE , British historian . MARSHAL JOSEPH JOFFRE . LETTERS OF PARTICIPANTS ...
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... " Little Montenegro's Last Stand , " by Wallace and Muskovitch . . See 8 IV , " The First Assault on Verdun , " by De Souza , Luden- dorff , etc. so that he might become a Hohenzollern hero for his XX AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE OF.
... " Little Montenegro's Last Stand , " by Wallace and Muskovitch . . See 8 IV , " The First Assault on Verdun , " by De Souza , Luden- dorff , etc. so that he might become a Hohenzollern hero for his XX AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE OF.
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... assaults began again . This second series of Verdun battles lasted in full intensity for over two months ; but again the French resistance proved unbreakable.1 In July the weight of the assault decreased , and by September it had almost ...
... assaults began again . This second series of Verdun battles lasted in full intensity for over two months ; but again the French resistance proved unbreakable.1 In July the weight of the assault decreased , and by September it had almost ...
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... assault on Italy to parallel the Verdun drive . But the Austrians were slower of movement than the Ger- mans and only opened their offensive in mid - May . Attack- ing suddenly from the Alpine summits of the Trentino , four hundred ...
... assault on Italy to parallel the Verdun drive . But the Austrians were slower of movement than the Ger- mans and only opened their offensive in mid - May . Attack- ing suddenly from the Alpine summits of the Trentino , four hundred ...
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Página 116 - In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty: six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades-in-arms to the cause of its freedom, of its welfare and of its exaltation among the nations.
Página 115 - IRISHMEN and IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
Página 101 - But (it added) neutrals can not expect that Germany, forced to fight for her existence, shall, for the sake of neutral interest, restrict the use of an effective weapon if her enemy is permitted to continue to apply at will methods of warfare violating the rules of international law. Such a demand would be incompatible with the character of neutrality, and the German Government is convinced that the Government of the United States does not think of making such a demand, knowing that the Government...
Página 115 - WE DECLARE the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.
Página 90 - Government to prosecute relentless and indiscriminate warfare against vessels of commerce by the use of submarines without regard to what the Government of the United States must consider the sacred and indisputable rules of international law and the universally recognized dictates of humanity, the Government of the United States is at last forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue. Unless...
Página 92 - States might find it possible to hope that the officer who was responsible for that act had wilfully violated his orders or had been criminally negligent in taking none of the precautions they prescribed, and that the ends of justice might be satisfied by imposing upon him an adequate punishment, coupled with a formal disavowal of the act and payment of a suitable indemnity by the Imperial Government. But, though the attack upon the Sussex...
Página 91 - A careful, detailed, and scrupulously | impartial investigation by naval and military officers of the United States has conclusively established the fact that the Sussex was torpedoed without warning or summons | to surrender, and that the torpedo by which she was struck was of German manufacture.
Página 116 - The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman. The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens...
Página 116 - Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the establishment of a permanent National Government, representative of the whole people of Ireland and elected by the suffrage of all her men and women, the Provisional Government, hereby constituted, will administer the civil and military affairs of the Republic in trust for the people.
Página 95 - If it is still the purpose of the Imperial Government to prosecute relentless and indiscriminate warfare against vessels of commerce by the use of submarines without regard to what the Government of the United States must consider the sacred and indisputable rules of international law and the universally recognized dictates of humanity, the Government of the United States is at last forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue.