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To: RandFan

A squabble between the grand children of Queen Victoria. It caused a world war.


33 posted on 05/18/2024 7:01:22 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

The Kaiser even wrote a letter to Czar Nicky begging him to hold off on the Russian mobilization.

But too many German generals were of the mindset that Russia was modernizing the point, that it was a case of “Now or Never”, and forced the Kaiser’s hand.


35 posted on 05/18/2024 9:37:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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