The World War

About this eBook

Author

Marshall, Logan, 1884-1937

Title

The world war : a history of the nations and empires involved and a study of the events culminating in the great conflict

Credits

Theresa Armao

Language

English

LoC Class

D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere

Subject

World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes

Category

Text

eBook-No.

3779

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3779

Release Date

February 1, 2003

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The World War — A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict — by Logan Marshall
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.Chapter I. ALL EUROPE PLUNGED INTO WAR — DRAMATIC SUDDENNESS OF THE OUTBREAK — TRADE AND COMMERCE PARALYZED — WIDESPREAD INFLUENCES — DILEMMA OF THE TOURISTS — AN OCEAN INCIDENT — CLOSING THE STOCK MARKETS — TERRIBLE EFFECTS OF WAR — THE TIDE OF DESTRUCTION — HALF CENTURY TO PAY DEBTS
5. 5.Chapter II. UNDERLYING CAUSES OF THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR — ASSASSINATION OF THE AUSTRIAN CROWN PRINCE — AUSTRIA’S MOTIVE IN MAKING WAR — SERVIA ACCEPTS AUSTRIA’S DEMANDS — THE IRONIES OF HISTORY — WHAT AUSTRIA HAD TO GAIN — HOW THE WAR BECAME CONTINENTAL — AN EDITORIAL OPINION — IS THE KAISER RESPONSIBLE? — GERMANY’S STAKE IN THE WAR — WHY RUSSIA ENTERED THE FIELD — FRANCE’S HATRED OF GERMANY — GREAT BRITAIN AND ITALY — THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE AND TRIPLE ENTENTE
6. 6.Chapter III. STRENGTH AND RESOURCES OF THE WARRING POWERS — OLD AND NEW METHODS IN WAR — COSTS OF MODERN WARFARE — NATURE OF NATIONAL RESOURCES — BRITISH AND AMERICAN MILITARY SYSTEMS — NAVAL STRENGTH — RESOURCES OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY — RESOURCES OF GERMANY — RESOURCES OF RUSSIA — RESOURCES OF FRANCE — RESOURCES OF GREAT BRITAIN. — SERVIA AND BELGIUM
7. 7.Chapter IV. GREAT BRITAIN AND THE WAR — THE GROWTH OF GERMAN IMPORTANCE — GERMAN MILITARISM — GREAT BRITAIN’S PEACE EFFORTS — GERMANY’S NAVAL PROBLEM — GERMAN AMBITIONS — PREPARATION FOR WAR — EFFECT ON THE EMPIRE — THE DOMINION — THE PROVINCES — THE CITIES — THE BANKS AND THE PATRIOTIC FUNDS
8. 8.Chapter V. THE WORLD’S GREATEST WAR — WARS AS MILEPOSTS — A CONTINENT IN ARMS — HOW CANADA PREPARED FOR WAR — THE BRITISH SENTIMENT — LORD KITCHENER’S CAREER — A FORCEFUL CHARACTER
9. 9.Chapter VI. THE EARTHQUAKE OF NAPOLEONISM — Its Effect on National conditions Finally Led to the War of 1914 — CONDITIONS IN FRANCE AND GERMANY — THE CAMPAIGN IN ITALY — THE VICTORY AR MARENGO — MOREAU AT HOHENLINDEN — THE CONSUL MADE EMPEROR — THE CODE NAPOLEON — CAMPAIGN OF 1805 — BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ — THE CONQUEST OF PRUSSIA — THE INVASION OF POLAND — EYLAU AND FRIEDLAND — CAMPAIGN OF 1809 — VICTORY AT WAGRAM — THE CAMPAIGN IN SPAIN — THE INVASION OF RUSSIA — A FATAL RETREAT — DRESDEN AND LEIPZIG — THE HUNDRED DAYS — THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA — THE HOLY ALLIANCE
10. 10.Chapter VII. PAN-SLAVISM VERSUS PAN-GERMANISM — RUSSIA’S PART IN THE SERVIAN ISSUE — STRENGTH OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY — THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE SLAVS — ORIGIN OF PAN-SLAVISM — THE CZAR’S PROCLAMATION — THE TEUTONS OF EUROPE — INTERMINGLING OF RACES — THE NATIONS AT WAR
11. 11.Chapter VIII. THE AMBITION OF LOUIS NAPOLEON — The Final Overthrow of Napoleonism — THE “COUP D’ETAT” OF 1851 — FROM PRESIDENT TO EMPEROR — THE EMPIRE IS PEACE — WAR WITH AUSTRIA — THE AUSTRIANS ADVANCE — THE BATTLE OF MAGENTA — POSSESSION OF LOMBARDY — FRENCH VICTORY AT SOLFERINO — TREATY OF PEACE — INVASION OF MEXICO — END OF NAPOLEON’S CAREER
12. 12.Chapter IX. GARIBALDI AND ITALIAN UNITY — Power of Austria Broken — THE CARBONARI — MAZZINI AND GARIBALDI — CAVOUR THE STATESMAN — THE INVASION OF SICILY — OCCUPATION OF NAPLES — VICTOR EMMANUEL TAKES COMMAND — WATCHWORD OF THE PATRIOTS — GARIBALDI MARCHES AGAINST ROME — BATTLE OF IRONCLADS — FINAL ACT OF ITALIAN UNITY
13. 13.Chapter X. THE EXPANSION OF GERMANY — Beginnings of Modern World Power — WILLIAM I OF PRUSSIA — BISMARCK’S EARLY CAREER — THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION — CONQUEST OF THE DUCHIES — BISMARCK’S WIDER VIEWS — WAR FORCED ON AUSTRIA — THE WAR IN ITALY — AUSTRIA’S SIGNAL DEFEAT OF SADOWA — THE TREATY OF PRAGUE — GERMANY AFTER 1866
14. 14.Chapter XI. THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR — Birth of the German Empire and the French Republic — CAUSES OF HOSTILE RELATIONS — DISCONTENT IN FRANCE — CAUSES OF HOSTILE RELATIONS — WAR WITH PRUSSIA DECLARED — SELF-DECEPTION OF THE FRENCH — FIRST MEETING OF THE ARMIES — THE STRONGHOLD OF METZ — MARS-LA-TOUR AND GRAVELOTTE — NAPOLEON III AT SEDAN — SURRENDER OF NAPOLEON’S ARMY — THE EMPEROR A CAPTIVE; FRANCE A REPUBLIC — BISMARCK REFUSES INTERVENTION — FALL OF THE FORTRESSES — PARIS IS BESIEGED — DEFIANT SPIRIT OF THE FRENCH — THE STRUGGLE CONTINUED — OPERATIONS BEFORE PARIS — FIGHTING IN THE SOUTH — THE WAR AT AN END
15. 15.Chapter XII. BISMARCK AND THE NEW GERMAN EMPIRE — Building the Bulwarks of the Twentieth Century Nation — BISMARCK AS A STATESMAN — UNITING THE GERMAN STATES — WILLIAM I CROWNED AT VERSAILLES — A SIGNIFICANT DECADE — THE PROBLEM OF CHURCH POWER — PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM — WILLIAM II AND THE RESIGNATION OF BISMARCK — OLD AGE INSURANCE — POLITICAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS IN GERMANY
16. 16.Chapter XIII. GLADSTONE AS AN APOSTLE OF REFORM — Great Britain Becomes a World Power — GLADSTONE AND DISRAELI — GLADSTONE’S FAMOUS BUDGET — A SUFFRAGE REFORM BILL — DISRAELI’S REFORM MEASURE — IRISH CHURCH DISESTABLISHMENT — AN IRISH LAND BILL — DESPERATE STATE OF IRELAND — THE COERCION BILL — WARS IN AFRICA — HOME RULE FOR IRELAND
17. 17.Chapter XIV. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC — Struggles of a New Nation — THE REPUBLIC ORGANIZED — THE COMMUNE OF PARIS — INSTABILITY OF THE GOVERNMENT — THIERS PROCLAIMED PRESIDENT — PUNISHMENT OF THE UNSUCCESSFUL GENERALS — MACMAHON A ROYALIST PRESIDENT — BAZAINE’S SENTENCE AND ESCAPE — GREVY, GAMBETTA AND BOULANGER — THE PANAMA CANAL SCANDAL — DESPOTISM OF THE ARMY LEADERS — THE DREYFUS CASE — CHURCH AND STATE — THE MOROCCO CONTROVERSY
18. 18.Chapter XV. RUSSIA IN THE FIELD OF WAR — The Outcome of Slavic Ambition — SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL — RUSSIA IN ASIA — THE RUSSO-JAPAN WAR — PORT ARTHUR TAKEN — THE RUSSIAN FLEET DEFEATED
19. 19.Chapter XVI. GREAT BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES — How England Became Mistress of the Seas — GREAT BRITAIN AS A COLONIZING POWER — COLONIES IN THE PACIFIC REGION — COLONIZATION IN AFRICA — BRITISH COLONIES IN AFRICA — THE MAHDI REBELLION IN EGYPT — GORDON AT KHARTOUM — SUPPRESSION OF THE MAHDI REVOLT — COLONIZATION IN ASIA — THE BRITISH IN INDIA — COLONIES IN AMERICA — DEVELOPMENT OF CANADA — PROGRESS IN CANADA
20. 20.Chapter XVII. THE OPEN DOOR IN CHINA AND JAPAN — Development of World Power in the East — WARLIKE INVASION OF CHINA — COMMODORE PERRY AND HIS TREATY — JAPAN’S RAPID PROGRESS — ORIGIN OF THE CHINA-JAPAN WAR — THE POSITION OF KOREA — LI HUNG CHANG AND THE EMPRESS — HOW JAPAN BEGAN WAR — THE CHINESE AND JAPANESE FLEETS — THE BATTLE OF THE YALU — CAPTURE OF WEI HAI WEI — EUROPE INVADES CHINA — THE BOXER OUTBREAK — RUSSIAN DESIGNS ON MANCHURIA — JAPAN BEGINS WAR ON RUSSIA — THE ARMIES MEET — PORT ARTHUR TAKEN — RUSSIAN FLEET DEFEATED — CHINA BECOMES A REPUBLIC
21. 21.Chapter XVIII. TURKEY AND THE BALKAN STATES — Checking the Dominion of the Turk in Europe — THE STORY OF SERVIA — TURKEY IN EUROPE — THE BULGARIAN HORRORS — THE DEFENSE OF PLEVNA — THE CONGRESS OF BERLIN — HOSTILE SENTIMENTS OF THE BALKANS — INCITEMENT TO WAR — FIGHTING BEGINS — THE ADVANCE ON ADRIANOPLE — SERVIAN AND GREEK VICTORIES — THE BULGARIAN SUCCESSES — STEPS TOWARD PEACE — THE WAR RESUMED — SIEGE OF SCUTARI — TREATY OF PEACE — WAR BETWEEN THE ALLIES — THE FINAL SETTLEMENT
22. 22.Chapter XIX. METHODS IN MODERN WARFARE — ANCIENT AND MODERN WEAPONS — THE IRONCLAD WARSHIP — THE BALLOON IN WAR — GUNNING FOR AIRSHIPS — THE SUBMARINE — UNDER-WATER WARFARE — THE NEW TYPE OF BATTLESHIP — MOBILIZATION — THE WASTE OF WAR
23. 23.Chapter XX. CANADA’S PART IN THE WORLD WAR — MILITARY PREPARATIONS — THE GREAT CAMP AT VALCARTIER — THE CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE — POLITICAL EFFECT OF CANADA’S ACTION ON FUTURE OF DOMINION

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