The Military Resources of Prussia and France: And Recent Changes in the Art of WarLongmans, Green, 1870 - 258 páginas |
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... government commending itself to the country's approval on the score of a blind undistin- guishing economy , a statesman , the most experienced and renowned of our age in foreign and domestic policy , not long before his death , avowed ...
... government commending itself to the country's approval on the score of a blind undistin- guishing economy , a statesman , the most experienced and renowned of our age in foreign and domestic policy , not long before his death , avowed ...
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... governments to hold out for unreasonable terms in the hope of wearying out the foe . Schleswig might have been as many months a field for contending forces as she was days , had not their railroad system enabled the Germans to ...
... governments to hold out for unreasonable terms in the hope of wearying out the foe . Schleswig might have been as many months a field for contending forces as she was days , had not their railroad system enabled the Germans to ...
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... government , and devoted to the dynasty whose empire is based on the memories of the great victory of the 2nd of December . 6 It has been commonly asserted that from his early use of two great secrets , the use of artillery in masses ...
... government , and devoted to the dynasty whose empire is based on the memories of the great victory of the 2nd of December . 6 It has been commonly asserted that from his early use of two great secrets , the use of artillery in masses ...
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... Government at the opening of the Crimean war were meagre and uncertain . In our own errors we may be in some sort com- forted by observing how utterly unable certain other Powers are to understand the present realities of war . The ...
... Government at the opening of the Crimean war were meagre and uncertain . In our own errors we may be in some sort com- forted by observing how utterly unable certain other Powers are to understand the present realities of war . The ...
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... government of Germany which has so powerfully influenced the politics of Europe for the past century , and ended only in thrusting out of the Empire the house which had presided over it for six hundred years , after a struggle of such ...
... government of Germany which has so powerfully influenced the politics of Europe for the past century , and ended only in thrusting out of the Empire the house which had presided over it for six hundred years , after a struggle of such ...
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