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...went out to play, the family gardener fired the young Paul's imagination with tales of how he had served as a drummer-boy under Frederick the Great. At the age of "eighteen-and-a-half" Paul had won his way through military school to lieutenantship in the Austro-Prussian War. Said he, years afterward, "I made no choice of a profession. To fight was 'the only thing to do,' 'eine Selbstverstandlichkeit...
...Poles have been "pulling through" under adversity for generations. The anciently independent state known as "Poland" was twice partitioned among Prussia, Russia and Austria -at the end of the 18th Century and at the beginning of the 19th. In 1914 only "Austrian Poland" was autonomous. During the war Austro-German forces occupied "Russian Poland," and in 1916 Wilhelm II and Franz Josef proclaimed the independence of "Poland" without defining the area which they referred to by that term. Repeated attempts were then made by "Poles" to organize a government among themselves. Not until after the War, however, did they succeed...
...Sadowa or Königgratz (1866): battle in the Austro-Prussian War which ended the old German Confederation (composed of both German and Austrian states) and resulted in the North German Confederation, the nucleus of the German Empire. Sedan (1870): battle in the Franco-Prussian War in which the Emperor Napoleon III was taken prisoner. There was declared to be a "vacancy of power" in France, and the third Republic (the present...
Tottering Empire" is perhaps a facile expression. Austro-Hungary, had there been no war, might have survived several more centuries; for federative reforms were much in the mind of the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The War, as Count Burián so graphically describes, shook the heterogeneous nation to its foundations; defeat completed the destruction...
...Russia, then Serbia, then Austro-Hungary, were in that order responsible for precipitating hostilities...