Word: emperor
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...battlefield in B.C. 57, while in pursuit of the Nervii. The Franks wrested the region from the Romans and the Northmen in turn from the Franks, sacking St. Quentin in 883 A.D. Picardy was devastated in the Hundred Years' War between France and England, and the armies of the Emperor Charles V. invaded it, besieging Peronne in 1536 and St. Quentin 21 years later. Wellington led the English army through Peronne on the way to Paris after Waterloo. The neighboring fortress of Ham, which was wrecked last spring by the Germans, was the prison of Louis Napoleon from...
General Johnston has had long experience in the regular service. He was appointed to the United States Military Academy from Pennsylvania in 1875, and graduated four years later. During the year 1902 he went to Europe with Generals Corbin, Young and Wood as guests of the Emperor of Germany, and prepared a report of the Teuton War Manoeuvers which these officers witnessed. General Johnston attained his present rank in the year of 1903, when he resigned from active service. He is now on active duty once more, and for the duration...
...that we shall be sincere. We should be very sure that it is the truth by which our hearts are stirred. Once we are sure of our facts we should ask only to feel as honest, self-respecting human beings, neither trailing humbly in the wake of an Emperor nor pretending to be holier than God made us. --New York Tribune...
...made their game a slow one. This year, of all times, with the United States working in accord with these undaunted Allies, may their aims be realized. We have heard of Austrain discontent and German mutiny, but these thin rumors fade into insignificance beside those words of the Emperor of the Germans. Coming from him, they are more reassuring than many bellowings of his people. Official word is had that the Magnifico of Potsdam sees the possibility of the beginning of the end. It is far from a certainty, but that William II is becoming worried is some relief...
...board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania has unanimously adopted a resolution striking the names of Emperor William of Germany and Count von Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the United States, from the university list of those holding honorary degrees...