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Title: The Great war
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Allen, George Henry, 1876- Whitehead, Henry C., 1873- Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 McAndrew, James William, 1862-1922 Wiley, Edwin, 1872-
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Barrie's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The Kaiser at trials of rapid fire guns.
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The Deaths-head Hussars. The German Crown Prince is the figure at the left of fourofficers on white horses on the right. The German Army 205 conquerors yoke. The force of the French Revolution,directed by Napoleon, broke over Germany, and neitherin the numerous small states nor in Prussia was there aleader ready to withstand it. In 1801 Scharnhorst, a Hanoverian, entered the Prussianservice. He became the devoted supporter of King Fred-erick William III, who in 1797 had succeeded his fatheron the throne, and with a group of other loyal and devotedmen undertook to reorganize the Prussian Army after thePeace of Tilsit in 1807, the darkest night of Prussian his-tory. The fundamental idea for the new army was that ofthe nation in arms. Liability to service, the duty of allcitizens to defend the country, had been established byFrederick William I, when for the purpose of recruiting hedivided the country into cantons and districts, and recruitedeach regiment in its own canton. There all mal

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