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    trajectory of the Schlieffen plan, but only up to the point where it was painfully obvious that he would have needed the army of the Schlieffen plan to proceed...
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    two divisions forward at Liège and Namur. Field marshal Alfred Graf von Schlieffen was Chief of the German General Staff (Oberste Heeresleitung, OHL) from...
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    German General Staff had long assumed they faced a war on two fronts; the Schlieffen Plan envisaged using 80% of the army to defeat France, then switching...
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    modernised their fortifications on the frontiers with Germany. Alfred von Schlieffen Chief of the Imperial German General Staff (Oberste Heeresleitung, OHL)...
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    from the regiment to serve as an adjutant to the next chief, Alfred von Schlieffen (in office 1891–1906), whom he regarded as a great instructor on how to...
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  • comprising 320,000 men, crossed into neutral Belgium in keeping to the Schlieffen Plan, with the ultimate goal of attacking France from the north. Liège...
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    six weeks and then turn its attention to Russia. As envisioned by the Schlieffen Plan (revised by Helmuth von Moltke), the Germans embarked on a rapid...
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    500 years earlier. Germany entered World War I largely following the Schlieffen Plan. According to Prit Buttar, "In combination with his own strong desire...
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    modernised their fortifications on the frontiers with Germany. Alfred von Schlieffen, Chief of the Imperial German General Staff, Oberste Heeresleitung (OHL)...
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    modernised their fortifications on the frontiers with Germany. Alfred von Schlieffen, Chief of the Imperial German General Staff (Oberste Heeresleitung, OHL)...
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    option as the most likely Russian course of action. In 1894 Alfred von Schlieffen, then Chief of the German General Staff, war-gamed a scenario that corresponded...
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    villa, which was a gift of the city, despite his admittedly having "lost the greatest war in history". "Victory comes from movement" was Schlieffen's...
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    German Confederation (of which Prussia was a member). However, the German Schlieffen Plan required that German armed forces advance through Belgium (thus violating...
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  • help of machine learning managed to read a small part of a book from the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum which was heavily damaged in the eruption of...
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    trajectory of the Schlieffen plan [sic], but only up to the point where it was painfully obvious that he would have needed the army of the Schlieffen plan [sic]...
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    Waldman (2011). Italy & Hungary: Humanism and Art in the Early Renaissance. Villa I Tatti. ISBN 978-0674063464. Hungary (4th ed.) Authors: Zoltán Halász /...
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    fight the Germans in France. Germany planned to apply the Schlieffen plan. The Schlieffen plan was to attack France first since Russia would not be able...
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    Patriotic consent [fr] Persian famine of 1917–1919 Powder keg of Europe Schlieffen Plan Spirit of 1914 / 1917 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk [ru] Interwar period...
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    respectively) and were directly involved in the implementation of the Schlieffen Plan. After the outbreak of World War I in July 1914, Rupprecht took command...
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    armies in the west and one in the east, executed a modified version of the Schlieffen Plan, bypassing French defenses along the common border by moving quickly...
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    experts, known all over the world, such as Clausewitz, Moltke the Elder, Schlieffen. Certainly, in their time they assessed the political–military situation...
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    Patriotic consent [fr] Persian famine of 1917–1919 Powder keg of Europe Schlieffen Plan Spirit of 1914 / 1917 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk [ru] Interwar period...
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    147–148 Massie pp. 148–149 'The War in the Present', January 1909 by Schlieffen; E.M.Carroll, Germany and the Great Powers, pp. 577–578; Ham, p. 95 Katharine...
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    modernised their fortifications on the frontiers with Germany. Alfred von Schlieffen, Chief of the Imperial German General Staff (Oberste Heeresleitung, OHL...
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    Patriotic consent [fr] Persian famine of 1917–1919 Powder keg of Europe Schlieffen Plan Spirit of 1914 / 1917 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk [ru] Interwar period...
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    began, Germany invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg as part of the Schlieffen Plan, in an attempt to capture Paris quickly by catching the French off...
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    Patriotic consent [fr] Persian famine of 1917–1919 Powder keg of Europe Schlieffen Plan Spirit of 1914 / 1917 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk [ru] Interwar period...
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    Army, the outermost wing of the massive "right hook" intended by the Schlieffen Plan (a combination of the Aufmarsch I West and Aufmarsch II West deployment...
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  • Patriotic consent [fr] Persian famine of 1917–1919 Powder keg of Europe Schlieffen Plan Spirit of 1914 / 1917 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk [ru] Interwar period...
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    against the United Kingdom, France and Russia was dubious in any case. The Schlieffen Plan was the product of this mindset, and had left the General Staff confident...
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