- First flight engine, 1903
First flight engine, 1903 - 4-Cylinder vertical engine assembly
4-Cylinder vertical engine assembly - 4-Cylinder vertical engine assembly
4-Cylinder vertical engine assembly - First flight engine, 1903 rear view
First flight engine, 1903 rear view - First flight engine, 1903, assembly
First flight engine, 1903, assembly - First flight engine, 1903, cross section
First flight engine, 1903, cross section - Shop engine, 1901
Shop engine, 1901 - 4.7 inch. Breech closing and firing gear
4.7 inch. Breech closing and firing gear - 5 Inch R.F. gun (showing breech mechanism)
5 Inch R.F. gun (showing breech mechanism) - 5 inch Rapid-fire gun (Pedestal Mount.)
5 inch Rapid-fire gun (Pedestal Mount.) - 4.7 inch 120 mm q.f. Gun on centre pivot pedestal mounting
4.7 inch 120 mm q.f. Gun on centre pivot pedestal mounting - 12 inch barbette - non-disappearing
12 inch barbette - non-disappearing - 12 Inch Disappearing - raised
12 Inch Disappearing - raised - Africa, 1914
Africa, 1914 - Emperor William II
By one of those accidents in history that personify and precipitate catastrophes, the ruler of Germany, the emperor William II, embodied the new education of his people and the Hohenzollern tradition in the completest form. He came to the throne in 1888 at the age of twenty-nine; his father, Frederick III, had succeeded his grandfather, William I, in the March, to die in the June of that year. William II was the grandson of Queen Victoria on his mother’s side, but his temperament showed no traces of the liberal German tradition that distinguished the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family. His head was full of the frothy stuff of the new imperialism. He signalized his accession by an address to his army and navy; his address to his people followed three days later. A high note of contempt for democracy was sounded: “The soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities, have welded together the German Empire. My trust is placed in the army.” So the patient work of the German schoolmasters was disowned, and the Hohenzollern declared himself triumphant. - Germany after the Peace Treaty, 1919
Germany after the Peace Treaty, 1919 - Overseas Empires of European Powers, 1914
Overseas Empires of European Powers, 1914 - The Natural Political Map of Europe
It is worth while for the reader to compare the treaty maps we give with what we have called the natural political map of Europe. The new arrangements do approach this latter more closely than any previous system of boundaries. It may be a necessary preliminary to any satisfactory league of peoples, that each people should first be in something like complete possession of its own household. - The Original German Plan, 1914
The Battle of the Marne shattered the original German plan. For a time France was saved. But the German was not defeated; he had still a great offensive superiority in men and equipment. His fear of the Russian in the east had been relieved by a tremendous victory at Tannenberg. His next phase was a headlong, less elaborately planned campaign to outflank the left of the allied armies and to seize the Channel ports and cut off supplies coming from Britain to France. Both armies extended to the west in a sort of race to the coast. Then the Germans, with a great superiority of guns and equipment, struck at the British round and about Ypres. They came very near to a break through, but the British held them. - The Turkish Treaty, 1920
The Turkish Treaty, 1920 - The Western Front, 1915-18
The Western Front, 1915-18 For a year and a half, until July, 1916, the Western front remained in a state of indecisive tension. There were heavy attacks on either side that ended in bloody repulses. The French made costly{v2-517} but glorious thrusts at Arras and in Champagne in 1915, the British at Loos. - Mr H H Champion
Henry Hyde Champion (22 January 1859 – 30 April 1928) - Charles Rivers Wilson
Sir Charles Rivers Wilson