The Dresow offshoot died out in 1686 with the death of Anton Wilhelm von Schlieffen. The Danzig branch died out in the early 18th century. The elder Dresow...
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Moltke, Schlieffen and Prussian War Planning. Berg Publishers, 1991. Craig, Gordon. The Battle of Königgrätz. Lippincott, 1964. Coumbe, Arthur T. "Operational...
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House Order of Hohenzollern (redirect from Hausorden von Hohenzollern)
Wilhelm von Pape Hans von Plessen Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia Albrecht von Roon Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria Alfred von Schlieffen Otto Graf...
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Battle of Tannenberg (category Paul von Hindenburg)
148. Hindenburg, P. von, (1921) Out of my life, Harper, vol. 1, p. 109. Showalter, 1991 pp. 106–123 Schlieffen, Alfred, Graf von (1925). Cannae. Berlin:...
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by Schlieffen; E.M.Carroll, Germany and the Great Powers, p. 577-8; Ham, p. 95 Katharine A. Lerman (2003). The Chancellor as Courtier: Bernhard Von Bulow...
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very often at the commander's side. Paret, Peter (2012). "Clausewitz and Schlieffen as Interpreters of Frederick the Great: Three Phases in the History of...
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accordance with the German plan for victory in the west known as the Schlieffen Plan. Von Rundstedt served as 22nd Division's chief of staff during the invasion...
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widespread criticism. Falkenhayn recognized the pending failure of the Schlieffen-Moltke Plan and attempted to outflank the British and French in the Race...
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Order of the Red Eagle (redirect from Maximilian Vogel von Falckenstein)
on the occasion of Kaiser Wilhelm II's birthday, January 27, 1900 Arthur Count von Posadowsky-Wehner (1845–1932), Prussian Minister of the Interior and...
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the French army against the Swiss border. The plan's creator, Alfred von Schlieffen, head of the German General Staff from 1891 to 1906, estimated that...
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General (Generaloberst) Walther von Brauchitsch, Halder, and other members of the OKH in early October 1939. Like the Schlieffen Plan of World War I, it called...
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The General Staff's strategic route through Belgium (a key part of the Schlieffen Plan for the German attack on France) ultimately undermined all of Bethmann...
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Friedrich Paulus (redirect from Fredrich von Paulus)
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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The Guns of August (section Ch. 21 – Von Kluck's Turn)
Maunoury and Fernand de Langle de Cary; Germany: Eric Ludendorff, Alfred von Schlieffen ("of the two classes of Prussian officer, the bullnecked and the wasp-waisted...
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attack on France and Belgium in August 1914 as part of the long-prepared Schlieffen Plan. Richthofen crossed the Meuse at Dinant, and his unit was involved...
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York von Wartenburg [The Life of Field Marshal Count York von Wartenberg]. Phaidon Publishing. ISBN 3-88851-160-7. Ehlert, Hans (2014). The Schlieffen Plan:...
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Alfred von Schlieffen — German field marshal and strategist Gustav von Senden-Bibran an admiral of the German Imperial Navy Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz...
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Albrecht von Roon Prince Rudolf of Liechtenstein Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria Alfred von Schlieffen Gustav von Senden-Bibran...
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Lee Ulysses S. Grant William Tecumseh Sherman Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Alfred von Schlieffen Hans Delbrück Alfred Thayer Mahan Ferdinand Foch Giulio...
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pilot and air ace (1936–1945) Gerd von Rundstedt (1875–1953), field marshal and commander (1892–1945) Alfred von Schlieffen (1833–1913), field marshal, Strategist...
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Prince Klemens von Metternich was a German-born Austrian politician and statesman and one of the most important diplomats of his era, serving as the Foreign...
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Wilhelm II (redirect from Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm Albert Viktor von Preußen)
against Russia. When Helmuth von Moltke (the younger) (who had chosen the old plan from 1905, made by General von Schlieffen for the possibility of German...
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druben, in Krieg und Politik, vol.1 (Sep 1914) German Empire Mitteleuropa Schlieffen Plan Septemberprogramm Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds....
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Wilhelm von Ramming Albrecht von Roon Prince Rudolf of Liechtenstein Reinhard Scheer Alfred von Schlieffen Ehrhard Schmidt Ludwig von Schröder Gustav von Senden-Bibran...
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Historiography of Germany (section Leopold von Ranke)
(1957). H.W.C. Davis, The political thought of Heinrich von Treitschke (1915). online Arthur Alfaix Assis, What Is History For? Johan Gustav Droysen and...
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Places. The German Empire has won World War I when Alfred von Schlieffen lived to see his Schlieffen Plan executed successfully and Germany occupies France...
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Joseph Radetzky von Radetz Albrecht von Roon Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria Alfred von Schlieffen Albrecht von Stosch Wilhelm von Tümpling Nikita...
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Middle Ages, ancient history, historical survey Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873–1962), intellectual history Arthur R. M. Lower (1889–1988), Canadian György Lukács...
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Sack of Dinant (redirect from Massaker von Dinant)
control the area during the attack. On August 4, 1914, implementing the Schlieffen plan, the German army invaded Belgium shortly after issuing an ultimatum...
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recent or well-known presidents. A 1948 poll was conducted by historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. of Harvard University. A 1962 survey was also conducted...
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