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Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e a protectorate,made the land Egypts allegiance to the Allies. Another factor in tlie war, though asmall one and mostly effective politicallyand economically rather than in a militarysense, was the entrance of Portugal.Portugal was not drawn in until March9, 1916, when she declared war againstGermany. Her long existing treaty withGreat Britain, which ensured her own se-curity in the council of nations, made thisstep obligatory. England, a nation which had dependedalmost entirely upon her great navy forpower, had accomplished wonders in or-ganization of her land forces, in the qual-ity of training through which the recruitswent and, most of all, in the developmentand maintenance of the lines of commu-nication across the channel, by which thesteady flow of troops into Prance waskept up without a break and by whichthey were fed and supplied witli muni-tions. It was indeed at the very point ofinitial success that England lost the manshe had most to thank for the develop-ment of her army.
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Real dogs of war on duty in the trenches. People often talked of the dogs of war but the dogs theythought of then were far different from these real dogs in the trenches. 90 THE PEOPLES WAE BOOK Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitch-ener, the hero of Kliartoum, tlie idol ofthe army and the public and probably thegreatest military figure of the time, waskilled on June 5th, 1.915, when the Brit-ish cruiser Hampshire was sunk by amine off the Orkney Islands. LordKitchener was on his way to Petrograd,by way of the North Sea and the Baltic,to discuss with the Russian staff the plansfor a concerted drive on all fronts. Onlytwelve of the crew of the Hampshire sur-vived and the exact manner of the greatgenerals death is not known. Lord Kitchener, as the foremost mili-tary genius, was called to act as secretaryof state for war at the out))reak of hostil-ities. It was he who, in the face of tlie ridicule of those who saw a quick conclu-sion to the war, stated that it would en-dure for at least th

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