The Book of History: The events of 1916 ... 1917 and summaryGrolier society, 1920 A profusely illustrated summary of world history from an Euro-centric view but in great detail up to the end of World War II. |
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... land depôts to serve as drafts for the fifty - nine army corps , and it is thought that nearly all the huge shell output , that had accumulated during the winter , was transported westward . HE FIRST GERMAN PLAN OF ATTACK . T NOT A ...
... land depôts to serve as drafts for the fifty - nine army corps , and it is thought that nearly all the huge shell output , that had accumulated during the winter , was transported westward . HE FIRST GERMAN PLAN OF ATTACK . T NOT A ...
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... land on the west of the river , which swept the German attack with enfilading fire . FIELD - MARSHAL VON HAESELER Field - Marshal von Haeseler. British army . Verdun was apparently only a secondary objective , against which fourteen ...
... land on the west of the river , which swept the German attack with enfilading fire . FIELD - MARSHAL VON HAESELER Field - Marshal von Haeseler. British army . Verdun was apparently only a secondary objective , against which fourteen ...
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... land at Beaumont , towards which they were dragging the main group of their heavy guns . The command of the air had been almost lost , and there were not enough pontoon bridges , across the flooded Meuse , to bring up quickly the needed ...
... land at Beaumont , towards which they were dragging the main group of their heavy guns . The command of the air had been almost lost , and there were not enough pontoon bridges , across the flooded Meuse , to bring up quickly the needed ...
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... land and not France was about to re- ceive the Teuton onslaught . But in the first week of May fighting broke out fiercely on the left bank of the Meuse and gradually spread east across the river , and the côtes to the level Wöevre once ...
... land and not France was about to re- ceive the Teuton onslaught . But in the first week of May fighting broke out fiercely on the left bank of the Meuse and gradually spread east across the river , and the côtes to the level Wöevre once ...
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... land intrenchments . The warfare , save at Jutland , was waged with the sea's lighter troops . While the German High Sea Fleet lay inactive , protected by a barrier of sub- marines , mines , sandbanks and land - fortifications , British ...
... land intrenchments . The warfare , save at Jutland , was waged with the sea's lighter troops . While the German High Sea Fleet lay inactive , protected by a barrier of sub- marines , mines , sandbanks and land - fortifications , British ...
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Страница 739 - 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. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for...
Страница 738 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.
Страница 737 - With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States...
Страница 737 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense, but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
Страница 730 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world : that no nation should seek to extend its polity over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own polity, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.
Страница 728 - Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory, upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last...
Страница 738 - While we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very clear, and make very clear to all the world what our motives and our objects are. My own thought has not been driven from its habitual and normal course by the unhappy events of the last two months, and I do not believe that the thought of the nation has been altered or clouded by them.
Страница 736 - The Senate of the United States is the only legislative body in the world which cannot act when its majority is ready for action. A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Страница 726 - Government that it cannot for a moment entertain, much less discuss, a suggestion that respect by German naval authorities for the rights of citizens of the United States upon the high seas should in any way or in the slightest degree be made contingent upon the conduct of any other Government affecting the rights of neutrals and noncombatants. Responsibility in such matters is single, not joint; absolute, not relative.
Страница 734 - If this attempt is not successful we propose an alliance on the following basis with Mexico : That we shall make war together and together make peace. We shall give general financial support, and it is understood that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas and Arizona.