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... Europe . In about seventeen days Germany railed to the front 440,000 men , 135,000 horses and 14,000 vehicles and guns : a clock- work procession of 1,200 trains . The Prussians celebrated the end of the second month of the war by ...
... Europe . In about seventeen days Germany railed to the front 440,000 men , 135,000 horses and 14,000 vehicles and guns : a clock- work procession of 1,200 trains . The Prussians celebrated the end of the second month of the war by ...
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... Europe from interfering in a war unless Turkey consented . Another facet of geography quarantined Russo- Turkish wars . Both Russia and Turkey were major powers occupying huge territories , and most of their neighbours were weak . Their ...
... Europe from interfering in a war unless Turkey consented . Another facet of geography quarantined Russo- Turkish wars . Both Russia and Turkey were major powers occupying huge territories , and most of their neighbours were weak . Their ...
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... Europe . Among the cluster of European wars of the period 1848 to 1870 three others held some danger of becoming general wars , for they involved major powers in the centre of Europe . Two of those wars - the Franco - Austrian of 1859 ...
... Europe . Among the cluster of European wars of the period 1848 to 1870 three others held some danger of becoming general wars , for they involved major powers in the centre of Europe . Two of those wars - the Franco - Austrian of 1859 ...
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