The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and Contemporary Sources: American, British, French, German, and Others, Том 4Francis Whiting Halsey Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1919 This collection is a general military and diplomatic history of the First World War, from June 1914 to May 1920. Military affairs are the foremost issue, with political and diplomatic events relevant to the war intertwined. The work includes short biographies of important military leaders. |
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... nearly all were drowned . The Healdton was an American ship ; she was flying an American flag , and in her crew were thirteen American citizens . Without warning she was torpedoed twenty - five miles off the coast of Holland , outside ...
... nearly all were drowned . The Healdton was an American ship ; she was flying an American flag , and in her crew were thirteen American citizens . Without warning she was torpedoed twenty - five miles off the coast of Holland , outside ...
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... nearly 120,000 , and equipped in a way which their officers believed were a match , unit for unit , for German soldiers , were ready to respond overnight to whatever call might come . The National Guard , 150,000 strong , hardened by ...
... nearly 120,000 , and equipped in a way which their officers believed were a match , unit for unit , for German soldiers , were ready to respond overnight to whatever call might come . The National Guard , 150,000 strong , hardened by ...
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... nearly 100 Ger- man ships . Under orders from Washington , Dudley Field Malone , Collector of the Port of New York , at 3.45 o'clock directed the seizure of the 27 German ships in New York Harbor . By 6 o'clock all the vessels tied up ...
... nearly 100 Ger- man ships . Under orders from Washington , Dudley Field Malone , Collector of the Port of New York , at 3.45 o'clock directed the seizure of the 27 German ships in New York Harbor . By 6 o'clock all the vessels tied up ...
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... nearly 1,000,000 tons , had been added to the shipping resources at the dis- posal of Germany's foes . Should the fifteen vessels taken " in custody " by the Argentine Government be ultimately seized , another 76,000 tons would be lost ...
... nearly 1,000,000 tons , had been added to the shipping resources at the dis- posal of Germany's foes . Should the fifteen vessels taken " in custody " by the Argentine Government be ultimately seized , another 76,000 tons would be lost ...
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... nearly three years engaged in this struggle , with a continual exhaustion of resources , or of the means of making them available . So far as food products and materials derived from the soil were concerned , very close calculation ...
... nearly three years engaged in this struggle , with a continual exhaustion of resources , or of the means of making them available . So far as food products and materials derived from the soil were concerned , very close calculation ...
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