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...will to enter the League alone," as epitomized in the inflexible person of her President, must triumph. As youthful Germans crowded about their parents to know the meaning of all these developments, there was told to them again the plenipotent legend of Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und Hindenburg...
...Blut und Schlamm." His joy at his first taste of warfare was quickly conveyed to his family by letter: "I gratified my longings on the battlefield−smelt powder, heard whistling around me projectiles of all kinds−shells, shrapnel, canister, rifle-bullets; I was slightly wounded, thus becoming an interesting person; and I captured five cannon...
None the less, his promotion was slow. He was 47 before he became a colonel (1894) but he had plodded valiantly through Bismarck's Blut und Schlamm (blood and mud). Moreover he had become a valued if not a great tactician and had served as a professor at the War Academy. In 1896 his reward came. He was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the VIII Army Corps, and in 1904 was transferred to command the IV Army Corps−the summit of a German General's hopes in time of peace...
Eight prancing horses drew a gilded coach fairytalewise from the Palace of Buckingham to Westminster?from the residence of the sovereign to the assembly halls of the British Parliament. George Frederick Ernest Albert R. I. of Windsor (formerly of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha*) rode within, attired in a blazing red and gold field-marshal's uniform. Beside him sat the Queen-Empress, Victoria Mary, daughter of the late Francis Duke of Teck. Few of all the throngs that cheered them recalled that in 1892, one year before they were married, the death of Albert, Prince of Wales (now commonly referred...
...British Royal House changed from Hanover to Saxe-Coburg und Gotha by the marriage of Queen Victoria to a prince of the latter house. On Jan. 17, 1917, "the House of Windsor" was arbitrarily created...