The World Crisis, Volume 2Scribner, 1923 - Reconstruction (1914-1939) World War 1 and its aftermath. |
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... Battles are won by slaughter and manœuvre . The greater the general , the more he contributes in manœuvre , the less he demands in slaughter . The theory which has exalted the ' bataille d'usure ' or ' battle of wearing down ' into a ...
... Battles are won by slaughter and manœuvre . The greater the general , the more he contributes in manœuvre , the less he demands in slaughter . The theory which has exalted the ' bataille d'usure ' or ' battle of wearing down ' into a ...
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... battles of Tannenberg ( August 25-31 ) and of the Masurian Lakes ( September 5-15 ) the Army of Sam- sonoff was cut to ... Battle of Lemberg . This event covered , masked and partially coun- ter - balanced the disasters in the North . In ...
... battles of Tannenberg ( August 25-31 ) and of the Masurian Lakes ( September 5-15 ) the Army of Sam- sonoff was cut to ... Battle of Lemberg . This event covered , masked and partially coun- ter - balanced the disasters in the North . In ...
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... battle , and once the sea power of Britain was brought into play , turning movements of a most far - reaching character were open to the Allies . These turning movements were so gigantic and complex that they amounted to whole wars in ...
... battle , and once the sea power of Britain was brought into play , turning movements of a most far - reaching character were open to the Allies . These turning movements were so gigantic and complex that they amounted to whole wars in ...
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... Battle - Bankruptcy of Naval Opinion - The Entry of the Baltic - Correspondence with the Russian Government - Lord Fisher's Views - The Island of Borkum - Difficulties and Leth- argy - Efforts to Devise Practical Plans - The Bombarding ...
... Battle - Bankruptcy of Naval Opinion - The Entry of the Baltic - Correspondence with the Russian Government - Lord Fisher's Views - The Island of Borkum - Difficulties and Leth- argy - Efforts to Devise Practical Plans - The Bombarding ...
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... battle . Yet at the same time we are told that the orders to the German Navy were not to fight a general battle until the British Fleet had been worn down by minor losses to a condition of equality . Why then should the Germans come out ...
... battle . Yet at the same time we are told that the orders to the German Navy were not to fight a general battle until the British Fleet had been worn down by minor losses to a condition of equality . Why then should the Germans come out ...
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29th Division action Admiral de Robeck Admiralty advance Allies ammunition Anzac arrived artillery Balkan battalions batteries battle battle-cruisers battleships bombardment British Bulair Bulgaria Cabinet Carden carried Churchill coast command Commander-in-Chief Constantinople continued Council Dardanelles Dardanelles operations decisive defence destroyers effect enemy enemy's favourable fighting fire flotillas force forts France front Gallipoli Peninsula German Grand Fleet guns howitzers January land light cruisers Lord Fisher Lord Kitchener losses March 18 ment military mine-sweepers minefields mines months naval attack Navy necessary offensive Office operations opinion orders position possible prepared Prime Minister proposals Queen Elizabeth reinforcements Russian Sea Lord Sea of Marmora sent Serbia shell ships shore Sir Arthur Wilson Sir Ian Hamilton Sir John French situation Squadron Staff Straits strength submarines success supply Suvla Bay telegram theatre tion torpedo transports trawlers troops Turkey Turkish Army Turks vessels Vice-Admiral victory War Office whole