The Quarterly Review, Volumes 222-223William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1915 |
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Page 94
... territory which lies between the Dutch frontier and the Scheldt , and formed up on the left of the Allies ' line between Dixmude and Nieuport , where it has sustained repeated and violent attacks . The German force released by the fall ...
... territory which lies between the Dutch frontier and the Scheldt , and formed up on the left of the Allies ' line between Dixmude and Nieuport , where it has sustained repeated and violent attacks . The German force released by the fall ...
Page 117
... territories in Africa , which in due course will have to be surrendered . We can , therefore , look back upon the progress of naval events since the war opened at the beginning of August with feelings of satisfaction almost unalloyed ...
... territories in Africa , which in due course will have to be surrendered . We can , therefore , look back upon the progress of naval events since the war opened at the beginning of August with feelings of satisfaction almost unalloyed ...
Page 125
... territory ; but , after all necessary allowances have been made , it would still not be safe to estimate the effective forces of the Serbian army during the present war at a higher figure than 350,000 , though doubtless another 50,000 ...
... territory ; but , after all necessary allowances have been made , it would still not be safe to estimate the effective forces of the Serbian army during the present war at a higher figure than 350,000 , though doubtless another 50,000 ...
Page 131
... Territorial Army was to consist of some 300,000 men ( it never reached nearly that figure before the war ) ; that number has now been exceeded by at least 50 per cent . Its duties were to be those of home defence — to guard the coast ...
... Territorial Army was to consist of some 300,000 men ( it never reached nearly that figure before the war ) ; that number has now been exceeded by at least 50 per cent . Its duties were to be those of home defence — to guard the coast ...
Page 139
... Territorial Force the fallacy that this country can and should be defended within its own shores . It is not within our borders but across the seas that our defensive battles are to be fought . But the fallacy clings , and the man who ...
... Territorial Force the fallacy that this country can and should be defended within its own shores . It is not within our borders but across the seas that our defensive battles are to be fought . But the fallacy clings , and the man who ...
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