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... Paris made a brave resistance and held out for several months , it was at last taken , and at the palace of Versailles William I , King of Prussia , was declared the German Emperor . Thus the German Empire was formed , in the year 1871 ...
... Paris made a brave resistance and held out for several months , it was at last taken , and at the palace of Versailles William I , King of Prussia , was declared the German Emperor . Thus the German Empire was formed , in the year 1871 ...
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... Paris during the first few weeks of the war and thus render France helpless , and then to turn her forces against Russia . Germany knew that the Russians , France's al- lies , would attack her in the East as soon as the armies of the ...
... Paris during the first few weeks of the war and thus render France helpless , and then to turn her forces against Russia . Germany knew that the Russians , France's al- lies , would attack her in the East as soon as the armies of the ...
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... Paris was held back for many days . This failure to estimate the tem- per of the Belgian people correctly was Germany's second great mistake . Her third mistake was to suppose that England would stay out of the war . The English people ...
... Paris was held back for many days . This failure to estimate the tem- per of the Belgian people correctly was Germany's second great mistake . Her third mistake was to suppose that England would stay out of the war . The English people ...
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... - gians were brushed aside , the great fortress of Namur , between Liège and the French frontier , fell after a few shots from the German heavy howitzers , and the way to Paris was open . 42 THE BATTLE OF THE NATIONS.
... - gians were brushed aside , the great fortress of Namur , between Liège and the French frontier , fell after a few shots from the German heavy howitzers , and the way to Paris was open . 42 THE BATTLE OF THE NATIONS.
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frederic arnold kummer. howitzers , and the way to Paris was open . Mean- while , a part of the Belgian Army had retired be- hind the forts of Antwerp , to the north , and the remainder had retreated westward toward the line of the river ...
frederic arnold kummer. howitzers , and the way to Paris was open . Mean- while , a part of the Belgian Army had retired be- hind the forts of Antwerp , to the north , and the remainder had retreated westward toward the line of the river ...
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