A World History of Our Own Times: From the turn of the century to the 1918 armisticeSimon and Schuster, 1949 |
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... British armies to fight on European soil , although no Continental army had fought on British soil for more than eight hundred years . The British had no permanent attachment to any one European power , but used their control of the ...
... British armies to fight on European soil , although no Continental army had fought on British soil for more than eight hundred years . The British had no permanent attachment to any one European power , but used their control of the ...
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... British commander , had returned to Eng- land , the Boers fought on , adopting guerrilla tactics . They cut British- held railway lines , penetrated the Cape Colony , and almost set off an uprising among the South African Dutch ...
... British commander , had returned to Eng- land , the Boers fought on , adopting guerrilla tactics . They cut British- held railway lines , penetrated the Cape Colony , and almost set off an uprising among the South African Dutch ...
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... British naval supremacy and the mounting tension between the Central powers and the Russian- French alliance forced the British to modify their war plans . With an expeditionary force of only one hundred and fifty thousand men , the ...
... British naval supremacy and the mounting tension between the Central powers and the Russian- French alliance forced the British to modify their war plans . With an expeditionary force of only one hundred and fifty thousand men , the ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF 1900 | 7 |
CHAPTER PAGE 1 EUROPE AND GERMANY 3 | 7 |
THE LESSER TWOTHIRDS OF THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE | 23 |
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