Story of the World War, for Young PeopleHale Book Company, 1917 - 128 страница |
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... range , considerably beyond that of the old - fashioned , smooth - bore musket . When a zealous young Austrian officer reported this to his superiors the only answer was , " The battalions of Austria will sweep away these piff - paff ...
... range , considerably beyond that of the old - fashioned , smooth - bore musket . When a zealous young Austrian officer reported this to his superiors the only answer was , " The battalions of Austria will sweep away these piff - paff ...
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... range . The attacking force was necessarily put at a great disadvantage . Germany , wishing to reduce the forts quickly , set about making bigger guns with longer range , so that her troops could stand off many miles and destroy forts ...
... range . The attacking force was necessarily put at a great disadvantage . Germany , wishing to reduce the forts quickly , set about making bigger guns with longer range , so that her troops could stand off many miles and destroy forts ...
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... range of the gun is about six miles . The shells burst with a deadly effect , the flying fragments scattering over a radius of fifty feet . The poisonous gases which are gen- erated reach to a distance of thirty to forty feet more . The ...
... range of the gun is about six miles . The shells burst with a deadly effect , the flying fragments scattering over a radius of fifty feet . The poisonous gases which are gen- erated reach to a distance of thirty to forty feet more . The ...
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... ranges . To prevent the enemy from getting correct range the trenches are usually built in a zigzag line . The enemy will not risk his high explosive thousand- dollar shells on a wild chance of getting a fair hit at these trenches . It ...
... ranges . To prevent the enemy from getting correct range the trenches are usually built in a zigzag line . The enemy will not risk his high explosive thousand- dollar shells on a wild chance of getting a fair hit at these trenches . It ...
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... range . The 42 centimeter ( 16.5 - inch ) mortar prob- ably has put an end forever to the building of forts of the old plan of steel and concrete , for they are now so easily destroyed that they are not worth the NEW METHODS OF WARFARE ...
... range . The 42 centimeter ( 16.5 - inch ) mortar prob- ably has put an end forever to the building of forts of the old plan of steel and concrete , for they are now so easily destroyed that they are not worth the NEW METHODS OF WARFARE ...
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Adriatic Sea airplanes Allies American ammunition artillery attack August Austria Austro Austro-Hungary Bagdad Balkan battle began Belgian Belgium Bismarck Black Sea bombardment Bosnia Bosnia and Herzegovina British Bulgaria campaign Canal capture Central Powers command Congress conquered Constantinople cruisers Czar Dardanelles declared defeated defense Empire enemy enemy's England English Europe failed feet fighting fire fleet force fortress forts fought France French frontier German army German Empire Germany and Austria Government gunner hundred Italian Italy Kaiser land large numbers Liege lords machine guns Mackensen Marne merchant ships miles months munitions nations neutral neutral countries Paris peace Peninsula pilot port prisoners provinces railroad retreat Ridge Roumania rule sent Serbia shells Slavs soldiers speed stop submarine sunk supplies territory things thought tion torpedo treaty troops Turkey Turkish Turks U-boat United Verdun victory Vimy warfare west front Ypres Yser Zeppelin
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Страница 127 - We are now about to accept guage of battle with this natural foe to liberty and shall, if necessary, spend the whole force of the Nation to check and nullify its pretensions and its power.
Страница 125 - We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states.
Страница 123 - Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the Nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion.
Страница 124 - There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making; we will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our nation and our people to be ignored or violated.
Страница 124 - I hope, so far as they can equitably be sustained by the present generation, by well-conceived taxation. I say sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation because it seems to me that it would be most unwise to base the credits which will now be necessary entirely on money borrowed. It is our duty, I most respectfully urge, to protect our people so far as we may, against the very serious hardships and evils which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be produced by vast loans.
Страница 127 - Just because we fight without rancor and without selfish object, seeking nothing for ourselves but what we shall wish to share with all free peoples, we shall, I feel confident, conduct our operations as belligerents without passion and ourselves observe with proud punctilio the principles of right and of fair play we profess to be fighting for.
Страница 123 - The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind. It is a war against all nations. American ships have been sunk, American lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way. There has been no discrimination. The challenge is to all mankind.
Страница 122 - Vessels of every kind, whatever their flag, their character, their cargo, their destination, their errand, have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning and without thought of help or mercy for those on board, the vessels of friendly neutrals along with those of belligerents. Even hospital ships and ships carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and stricken people of Belgium...
Страница 122 - GENTLEMEN OF THE CONGRESS, — I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of making.
Страница 126 - The autocracy that crowned the summit of her political structure, long as it had stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact Russian in origin, character, or purpose...