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At 23:00 on the 4th of August, Great Britain declared war...

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Kaiser is in German what Tsar is in Russian and other Slavic Languages, both are derived from the word- CEASER from Julius Ceaser. So, Austria and HRE also had Kaisers and had them for a very long time, the Habsburgs ruled for nearly a thousand years, about 4 times the history of USA. Please keep t...

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" You may be correct, but in English the term Kaiser is reserved for the German Emperor. I may be wrong, but I do not think that anyone thought of the Austrian Emperor when you claimed that lots of Slavs fought for the Kaiser. " Most of us are not Anglo Saxons and Kaiser meaning Emperor ; if a Kais...

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I thought Kaiser is German word meaning Emperor. So Franz Joseph would be also Kaiser... You may be correct, but in English the term Kaiser is reserved for the German Emperor. I may be wrong, but I do not think that anyone thought of the Austrian Emperor when you claimed that lots of Slavs fought f...

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True. The Serbs and Russians are equally if not more responsible for the war as the 2 Kaisers of Austria and Germany. Unfortunately as Napoleon said- History is written by the Victors; hence- Germany is an evil nation and Serbia, Russia and France are white angels. BTW- Alsace Lorraine was part of ...

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elxaime wrote:Hmm...our family will vacation in Belgium through August. Should we cancel? Thoughts?

Is this not what Herr Moltke asked his wife?

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Ace wrote:Lot of Slavs fought for the Kaiser

Technically speaking, many Slavs fought for Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. Not so many fought for the Kaiser.

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The 28th of July was the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WWI, when the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia. Local war or European war? That is the question.

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I also disagree with your initial premise that Lee's army should have engaged both of the Union armies during its breakout attempt. If two armies are besieging Richmond and Lee decided to breakout, he would have selected the weakest army to try and punch through. Once the attack had started, the sec...

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HerrDan wrote:But it's still my favorite title that has been already launched.

I agree. Despite the fatal flaw of the engine being not big enough to handle the game, PoN is my favourite game. I just wish that I could play it.

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Jagger2013 wrote:Good reading. So who was the foreign liason staff with the Army of Northern Virginia that was sending intelligence reports to the Union?

It could have been only one person: Colonel (CSA) Harry Paget Flashman, VC

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icailla.jpg The news from the Balkans did not make the front pages of French newspapers. Instead, the French attention was on the acquittal of Madame Caillaux of the murder of Gaston Calmette. On 16 March 1914, Henriette Caillaux, wife of the former Prime Minister and current Finance Minister, had ...

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You can also personally name your armies rather than rely on a randomly selected name as per your paragraph 2. Remove the army general from his stack and the remaining stack can be given any name as per your paragraph 1. Reattach the army leader and the new name remains. Disclaimer: this worked pre-...

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It is curious and interesting to speculate on the possible effect of a McClellan win in 1864. Common knowledge holds that the Dems were the peace party and were advocating a cease fire which would lead to an independent Confederacy. Unfortunately, the Democratic Party 1864 Election Platform and thei...

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take a look a this strange machine and guess what is it. [ATTACH]28508[/ATTACH] It is the 'Tsar's Tank', which was designed by Lebedenko and financed by the Tsar. On its test trial in 1915, the small rear wheels became stuck in the mud and the tank was left in place for 8 years, when it was cut up ...

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Technically there are not 9 kings on that picture but 8 kings and an emperor ;) (who was also king of prussia so not that wrong...)(the king of bulgaria was technically a Tsar so more of an emperor in translation than king but don't think the other kings on that picture would have agreed on that in...

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It was King Farouk of Saudi Arabia who said 'that in 100 years there will be only 5 kings in the world: the King of England and the four kings in a pack of playing cards'.

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This picture would be impossible to replicate today as there are only seven European Monarchies left and two of these have Queens.

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Le Ricain, according to a book I've found here at the university library, the actual reparations in today's money of the 1871 war may have been even less than originally calculated. The author is accomplished Geoffrey Wawro . The quoted book was written in 2003, thus "today's money" is 2003 USD. An...

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Interesting note on choice of engine. If the WWI game is using modified version of the Great Invasions game, ie a fixed version, does this mean that the game engine can be used in a Great Invasions II game?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0074rc8

A short BBC presentation on the Rose Serio Comic Map of 1877 presented above. The map is actually about the future Russo-Turkish War of 1877.

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Le Ricain, are you sure? According to Wikipedia the 5 billion Gold Francs were 1000 million Dollars, ie 1 billion Dollars of 1873. [url=http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/relativevalue.php?use2=a%3A7%3A{i%3A0%3Bs%3A6%3A%22DOLLAR%22%3Bi%3A1%3Bs%3A12%3A%22GDPDEFLATION%22%3Bi%3A2%3Bs%3A3%3A%22VCB...

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wosung wrote:Huh? But Germany didn't end its payment in 1932. It did so in 2010. So the 1932 figure is misleading here.

No, Germany stopped paying reparations in 1932. Germany made its last interest payment on the bonds it took out to pay reparations in 2010.

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Going back to the original post: the reparations imposed on Germany after WWI was less than the reparations imposed on France after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. In 1873, France finished paying the 5 Billion Gold Francs to Prussia (342 Billion 2011 USD). By 1932, Germany had paid 20 Billion Gold ...

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As I said, I am not sure that the early work of using the names from your list actually made it into the DB for AACW.

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Thanks. I've been casually looking through various volumes of "The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records...", and found a nice list of alternate designations of units, here: https://archive.org/stream/warrebellionaco00cowlgoog#page/n980/mode/2up When the original work was bein...

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It is important to note that the IT Indian support for the Confederate cause was not as overwhelming as has been suggested. The Lockapaka Creeks and the Muscogee Creeks under the leadership of Opothleyahola fought for the Union. Also, the Seminoles under the leadership of Halleck Tustenuggee and Son...

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My family's experience during the War show just how difficult the decision of what to do could be. Although, I live in Scotland, my family is from New England going back to the earliest English migration. The only ACW experience that I know of comes from a branch of the family, that for reasons unkn...

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Thanks, guys. I have been working on another AGEOD project and have not been able to follow this forum as much as in the past. I am glad that the ships' names seem to be in vers 1.04rc. Also my generals' nicknames!!!

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There were at least two Iron Brigades: 1st Iron Brigade or Iron Brigade of the East: 22nd, 24th, 30th NY, 14th Rgt & 2nd US Sharpshooters Iron Brigade or Iron Brigade of the West: 2nd, 6th, and 7th WI, 19th IN, Battery B 4th US Lt ART + later 24th MI They both served in the AoP and in fact were in t...

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