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	World War I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On 1914-06-28, Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, in Sarajevo.
		Some war memorials date the end of the war as being when the Versailles treaty was signed in 1919; by contrast, most commemorations of the war’s end concentrate on the armistice of 1918-11-11.
		During the war, the Haber process of nitrogen fixation was employed to provide the German forces with a continuing supply of powder for the ongoing conflict in the face of British naval control over the trade routes for naturally occurring nitrates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_War_I (10281 words)

	The Heritage of the Great War / First World War 1914 - 1918 / Eerste Wereldoorlog 14-18. Photographs: graphic color and ...
		Subjects are: the horror of the Great War battlefields, soldiers and kid soldiers (boy soldiers) in the First World War, civilians, wounded men, doctors, and the daily life in and behind the trenches of No Man's Land aka Nomansland during the Great War 14-18.
		We also have Great War propaganda posters and postcards and censored, forbidden pictures of corpses, dead and mutilated soldiers, mud and rain and shell holes and trenches, many trenches and entranchments, executions.
		The Great War was in Flanders Fields in Vlaanderen and on the battlefields of the Somme, Verdun, the Chemin des Dames and the Marne.
	www.greatwar.nl (1672 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Timeline: British Trench Warfare 1917-1918
		The aim of the first stages of attack is to obtain a footing in the enemy's defenses and to consolidate and extend the gain thus made.
		The shaking of the morale and destruction of the personnel of the defending force by bombardment or by the employment of one of the new agents of war, such as asphyxiating gas or jets of liquid fire, prior to assault.
		The first and greatest aim of all training should therefore be the establishment of the strictest discipline.
	www.worldwar1.com /tlbtw.htm (1953 words)

	First Great War - IBWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Some say, because the war ended in stalemate, Germany was not sufficiently punished and because of that Wilhelm III was able to coerce, cajole and outright force the ther Germanic states into partisanship for the Second Great War.
		Dissatisfaction with the Russian government's conduct of the war grew despite the success of the June 1916 Brusilov offensive in eastern Galicia against the Austrians, when Russian success was undermined by the reluctance of other generals to commit their forces in support of the victorious sector commander.
		The first major television documentary on the history of the war was the BBC's The Great War (1964), made in association with the CBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and The Imperial War Museum.
	ib.frath.net /w/First_Great_War (7506 words)

	First war of Schleswig: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The First war of Schleswig (1848 – 1850) was a military conflict in southern Denmark[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link].
		This war between Denmark and Prussia lasted three years (1848–1850) and only ended when the Great Power[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject]s pressured Prussia into accepting the London Convention of 1852.
		Second war of schleswig also known as danish war or danish-prussian war in 1864 was fought between denmark and prussia....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fi/first_war_of_schleswig.htm (866 words)

	The Saga of Hog Island by James J. Martin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The war of 1939-45 was not followed by peace in the manner of 1919, but by the continuation of prodigious war expenses and concomitant employment, the so-called Cold War among the alleged victors.
		The entry of the USA into the First World War on the side of France and England immediately led to immense demands for men and materials to help them fight a successful war against the Germans, especially in view of the impending collapse and withdrawal of Imperial Russia from their side.
		First of all, a shipyard, the estimated cost of which in the earliest accounts was to be between $19 1/2 and $20 million.
	tmh.floonet.net /articles/hogisle.shtml (13884 words)

	The First Great Brothers' War: World War One
		In April 1918, the British, in an effort to end the submarine war, blocked the German submarine port at Zeebrugge in Belgium by deliberately sinking three aged British cruisers in the harbor entrance.
		The first attack on the German forces in East Africa (who were under the remarkable leadership of General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck) by British and Indian troops was repulsed in November 1914.
		The First World War was a bloody, unnecessary and violent struggle which took the lives of over 8.4 million Whites over the space of the four years it was fought: a staggering average of 2 million per year.
	www.white-history.com /hwr59i.htm (3084 words)

	Nocturnal Defense of Great Britain in the First World War
		The First World War was not the first conflict in which aerial bombardment of enemy cities played a part.
		Prior to the war, military aviation was primarily thought of in terms of visual reconnaissance, and, since one did not generally reconnoiter when one could not see, few had thought about the difficulties of night flying.
		As a result, for the first three yeas of the war, cross-country navigation and landing were so fraught with difficulty that few aviators could manage a nocturnal mission without damaging or demolishing an aircraft.
	worldatwar.net /chandelle/v4/v4n1-2/ww1nite.html (5486 words)

	Military History and the First Great Air War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		First, there was the reaction of the scientific school, trained in the von Ranke methods, to the literary historians who monopolized military history writing.
		The story of that great adventure is a record of the deeds of men, of those who fought in the clouds and those who brought into being an amazing procession of new airplanes.
		The last year of the war was to be a struggle between the improved Spads, Camels, and SE-5s and the Fokker (the triplane until late spring 1918 and the D-7 thereafter).
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1970/jan-feb/hudson.html (2771 words)

	The First Great Brothers' War: World War One
		The First World War was the first continent-wide war between the newly industrialized countries of Europe: starting out as a local war between Austro-Hungary and Serbia, it mushroomed into a world wide conflict involving 32 nations, inflicting incalculable genetic damage on all of the nations involved.
		The big difference in this conflict was however that it was the first to be fought with the aid of the massive developments in technology which had occurred towards the end of the 19th and the early 20th centuries.
		As the first of the three major German armies converging on Paris crossed the Marne River, a French attack fell upon them: the first Battle of the Marne was joined on 5 September 1914.
	www.white-history.com /hwr59.htm (3849 words)

	Missourians in the First World War
		It is estimated that the last veteran of the "Great War" will have passed away by 2018, one hundred years from the time the war ended.
		During the First World War, she was used as a training ship in the Chesapeake Bay area.
		At the end of the war in 1919 she was sent to France and used to transport to bring U.S. servicemen home.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/mo/county/stlouis/mo1stww.htm (1896 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Great War: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		First released in 1964 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War, this epic piece of television has now reached a vintage which might suggest it has outlasted its shelf-life and should be consigned to a peaceful archive.
		The amount and depth of this footage is astonishing, especially as most subsequent documentaries on the war tend to overuse the same few pieces (a shot of a mine detonating on the eve of the Somme in particular).
		Terraine was famous at the time for bucking the prevailing post-WW1 viewpoint, that the Great War had been prolonged by stupid incompetents such as Field Marshal Haig; he instead argued that Haig was a victim of circumstance, and that he did well bearing the constraints under which he operated.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000634BA (1746 words)

	University Press of Florida: Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War
		The author's critical analysis of the ways in which the First Great War acted on Wharton’s imagination leads to a convincing illustration of the significant connections between her war-related writings and activities and the rest of her oeuvre and her life.
		In addition to providing a thorough analysis of Wharton’s war writings, the book includes two appendixes of her out-of-print and scattered writings, available for the first time in over 85 years.
		The first contains the war poetry; the second includes a sampling of Wharton’s war-related nonfiction prose, including newspaper reportage, magazine articles, an obituary for her young friend Ronald Simmons who died in the war, and a speech she gave to American servicemen.
	www.upf.com /book.asp?id=OLINAS04 (489 words)

	The First Great Awakening - The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Divining America: Religion and the National ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		What historians call "the first Great Awakening" can best be described as a revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
		The earliest manifestations of the American phase of this phenomenon—the beginnings of the First Great Awakening—appeared among Presbyterians in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
		The first is represented by those historians who argue that the revivals became a means by which humbler colonials challenged the prerogatives of their social "betters"—both by criticizing their materialistic values and undermining their claims to deference and respect.
	www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080 /tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/grawaken.htm (1753 words)

	BBC News \| World War I \| The Great War: 80 years on
		It is 80 years since the armistice silenced the guns of World War I. The war lasted from 1914-18, claimed 10 million lives and forever changed the political map of Europe.
		World War I was a struggle between Europe's great powers grouped into two hostile alliances.
		Russia's involvement in the war was inextricably linked with its turbulent domestic history.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/197437.stm (247 words)

	Matthew W. Dunscombe, The World's First Great Collector of Antique and Unusual Spectacles
		His oldest daughter became the first woman to pass the examinations of the British Optical Association in 1899 at the age of 32.
		After being evacuated to the country at the start of the Second World War (along with other items from the National Collections) the collection was returned to the museum and in 1947 became a permanent component of the Optics Collection.
		Matthew William Dunscombe achieved great significance during his lifetime, both as a member of the Bristol society and as an eminent practitioner and innovator in the field of Ophthalmology.
	www.antiquespectacles.com /dunscombe/matthew_dunscombe.htm (1312 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The First World War: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		And that this is due to the great loss in the first meaning there are fewer to give their lives in the second is a chilling fact.
		The true facts on the complicated matter the Great War ultimately is and remains, seem doomed to remain shrouded in mists forever.
		I was keen to get an overview of the war and to obtain an insight into not only the events of the war itself, but the context of it's beginnings from a political perspective.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0712666451 (1831 words)

	1914-18 war - Art of the First World War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		From the 1914-18 war to the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Armistice of 11th November 1918.
		The artists and their work are brought into context in a detailed presentation of the works by art historian and exhibition curator Philippe Dagen.
		The war gave rise to the most lively and surprising emotions and artistic reactions to patriotic feeling, to the emerging new technologies, and most of all to the horror of the first experience of modern warfare...
	www.art-ww1.com /gb/index2.html (179 words)

	Goldshire - WoWWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Goldshire has roads that lead to Stormwind city to the northwest, Northshire Abbey to the northeast, Westfall to the west, and Lakeshire (Redridge Mountains zone) to the east.
		Goldshire was taken in preparation of the Horde's sack of Stormwind Keep during the First Great War:
		"War and hunger have brought interlopers to Elwynn Forest, endangering the town of Goldshire.
	www.wowwiki.com /Goldshire (551 words)

	BBC - History - World War One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Now, these old soldiers remember the Great War for the last time.
		The first shots of World War One occurred near a small Belgian village in August 1914.
		Discover the effects of war on the people who fought, and on those who were left behind.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/wwone/index.shtml (405 words)

	Metatisic: The First Saga
		But as the soil is removed, trace outline of an auld staircase unintentionally leads the party deep into Decepticon and Cybertronian history before the first Great War.
		While it has been mentioned before in random messageboard threads, for those few, the story of Metatisic was the first saga of a TF trilogy that was originally written over the course of three years between 1985 to mid 1987.
		Founded completely on the Season 2 “War Dawn” episode, the original copy was done by hand and entirely written in ink on the pages of your average run of the mill 3-subject notebook!
	www.plotsntombstones.com /Metatisic/Metatisic.html (341 words)

	Amazon.com: The Great War : Perspectives on the First World War: Books: Robert Cowley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As for the battles, readers may miss accounts of the U-boat war and the Italians' valiant efforts, but two pieces by Timothy Travers and Cowley, which add up to a summary of the Battle of the Somme, provide a balanced exposition on one of the bloodiest battles in history.
		The war, as Sir Michael Howard points out in his prologue, "was for all governments a leap into a terrible dark"-and yet they were all more afraid of what they might lose in peace than in the battles they knew they would have to fight.
		Four essays on the naval war, for example, remind us that those in the trenches weren't the only ones to suffer horrific conditions; the section on the often-eclipsed battle at Bertrix lends insightful perspective on the larger Ardennes offensive.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375509097?v=glance (1344 words)

	First Great American Oil Well
		The pioneer white men who first explored and settled in Kentucky to call it their new home, brought with them, among other necessities, small quantities of salt to preserve the game which abounded in Kentucky's dense wooded forests.
		All that remains of the century and a quarter history of this great phenomenon are the few remaining bottles of medicinal oil, the prined accounts as set forth in the foregoing, and the permanent marker erected by the 1934 General Assembly for the Legislature of Kentucky.
		The history and subsequent events of the First Great American Gusher have been kept alive through a few interested citizens who have never, for any length of time, let go this birth of what has come to be a necessary part of the world today.
	www.riverfrontlodge.net /oil_well.htm (1743 words)

	THE WOMEN OF WORLD WAR I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		These were the first women in the U.S. to obtain military rank and status.
		Your are a nurse stationed in central France during the war.
		The objective of this webquest is to enable you to put yourself in the place of the people if focuses on and to look at the events from their point of view.
	www.montana.edu /webquest/socialstudies/grades6to12/dickerson (559 words)

	The Heritage of the Great War has a new address: www.greatwar.nl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Heritage of the Great War has a new address: www.greatwar.nl
		Kaiser Wilhelm II in exile in Doorn, Holland.
		Click here to go to the new 'Heritage of the Great War' website at http://www.greatwar.nl, the First World War 1914 - 1918.
	www.geocities.com /~worldwar1/kaiser.html (61 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia of World War I - B
		BBC TV, How the 'Great War' was Lost - and Found
		Berlin, Footage of Reaction to War Declaration, 1914
		Bratianu, Ion - Declaration of War with Austria-Hungary
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/b.htm (635 words)

	The First World War
		A War in Words: This tremendous book tells the story of the First World War through the diaries and letters of its combatants, eyewitnesses and victims.
		Powerful individual stories are interwoven to form an extraordinary narrative that follows the chronology of the war, in words written on the battlefield and on leave, under occupation and in prison.
		Each chapter focuses on one important episodes of the war told from opposite sides of the conflict.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWW.htm (148 words)

	Tom Morgan's HELLFIRE CORNER - The home of Tom Morgan Military Books
		This is Richard Racey's edited version of his Father's Great War Diary, telling a story of capture nearYpres, imprisonment in a sucession of camps and, finally, escape to neutral Holland.
		The story of Andrew's research into the Great War service of his relative, Stanley Butwright, who was killed withing just a few weeks of his arrival in France.
		This is Geoff Moran's well-edited version of the diary of an Australian soldier, from his departure for the war in 1915 to the time of his death at Pozieres, Somme, in 1916.
	www.fylde.demon.co.uk /welcome.htm (1951 words)

	Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature
		The War Poems and Manuscripts of Wilfred Owen
		First World War Poetry Discussion Board - Join in the debates!
		The project also involved building up an archive of material relating to the War, which lecturers and students can use across the Web, creating their own tutorials or on-line essays.
	www.oucs.ox.ac.uk /ltg/projects/jtap (217 words)

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