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The first shows Western France. The second map
contains many of the locations of the European battles. They are
adapted from Putnam's Handy Volume Atlas of the World, published

by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1921.
The next two maps from the USMA, West Point, map collection,
compare Europe before and after World War I.
Finally, a full map of the European theater has much detail. It should be
scaled up to about 500% for detail viewing. It is derived from a larger
map from Rand, McNally & Company's Indexed Atlas of the World,
Copyright 1898.
[Illustration: Western France; Southern England]
[Illustration: Western Front Battle Zone--Eastern France; Southern
Belgium; Western Germany]
[Illustration: WWI Locales; Lens; Cinde; Mons; Douai; Valenciennes;
Cambri Landrecies; St. Quentin; Sedan; Argonne Forest; Noyon;
Chauny; Soissons; Rheims; Verdun; Metz; Chateau-Thierry; St. Mihiel;
Paris; Sezanne]
[Illustration: Europe Before World War I]
[Illustration: Europe After World War I]
[Illustration: Europe, 1898]

This is a glossary of unfamiliar (to me) terms and places.
Boche Disparaging term for a German.
camion Truck or bus. [French]
charnel Repository for the dead.
colliers Coal miner
congerie Accumulation, aggregation, collection, gathering

consanguinities Relationship by blood or common ancestor. Close
affinity.
deadweight Displacement of a ship at any loaded condition minus the
lightship weight (weight of the ship with no fuel, passengers, cargo). It
includes the crew, passengers, cargo, fuel, water, and stores.
debouch March from a confined area into the open; to emerge
Gross Tonnage Volume of all ship's enclosed spaces (from keel to
funnel) measured to the outside of the hull framing (1 ton / 100 cu.ft.).
inst. The current month: your letter of the 15th instant.
invest Surround with troops or ships; besiege.
irredenta Region culturally or historically related to one nation, but
subject to a foreign government.
Junker Member of the Prussian landed aristocracy, formerly associated
with political reaction and militarism.
Kiao-chau German protectorate from 1898 to 1915, on the Yellow Sea
coast of China. It was on 200 square miles of the Shantung Peninsula
around the city of Tsingtao, leased to Germany for one hundred years
by the imperial Chinese government. In 1898 Tsingtao was an obscure
fishing village of 83,000 inhabitants. When Germany withdrew in 1915,
Tsingtao was an important trading port with a population of 275,000.
kine Plural of cow.
kultur German culture and civilization as idealized by the exponents of
German imperialism during the Hohenzollern and Nazi regimes.
lighterage Transportation of goods on a lighter (large flatbottom barge
used to deliver or unload goods to or from a cargo ship or transport
goods over short distances.)
lyddite An explosive consisting chiefly of picric acid, a poisonous,

explosive yellow crystalline solid, C6H2(NO2)3OH.
mitrailleuse Machine gun.
morganatic Marriage between a person of royal birth and a partner of
lower rank, where no titles or estates of the royal partner are to be
shared by the partner of inferior rank nor by any of the offspring.
nugatory Of little or no importance; trifling; invalid.
pastils Small medicated or flavored tablet; tablet containing aromatic
substances burned to fumigate or deodorize the air; pastel paste or
crayon.
poilus French soldier, especially in World War I.
pourparler Discussion preliminary to negotiation.
prorogue Discontinue a session of parliament; postpone; defer.
punctilio Fine point of etiquette; precise observance of formalities.
rinderpest Contagious viral disease, chiefly of cattle, causing ulceration
of the alimentary tract and diarrhea.
Sublime Porte [French. Porte: a gate] Ottoman court; government of
the Turkish empire; from the gate of the sultan's palace.
Tsing-tao (Qing-dao) City in eastern China on the Yellow Sea,
north-northwest of Shanghai. The city was leased in 1898 to the
Germans, who established a famous brewery.
Uhlans Horse cavalry of the Polish, German, Austrian, and Russian
armies.
ukase Order or decree; an edict; proclamation of a czar having the force
of law in imperial Russia.
verbund [German] Interconnection.

Wipers British soldiers' pronunciation of "Ypres".
Zemstvos An elective council for the administration of a provincial
district in czarist Russia.
[End Transcriber's notes]

[Illustration: THE VICTORIOUS GENERALS; photographs] General
Foch, Commander-in-Chief of all Allied forces. General Pershing,
Commander-in-Chief of the American armies. Field Marshal Haig,
head of the British armies. General d'Esperey (French) to whom
Bulgaria surrendered. General Diaz, Commander-in-Chief of the Italian
armies. General Marshall (British), head of the Mesopotamian
expedition. General Allenby (British), who redeemed Palestine from
the Turks.

HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR
An Authentic Narrative of The World's Greatest War
By FRANCIS A. MARCH, Ph.D. In Collaboration with RICHARD J.
BEAMISH Special War Correspondent and Military Analyst
With an Introduction By GENERAL PEYTON C. MARCH Chief of
Staff of the United States Army
Illustrated with Reproductions from the Official Photographs of the
United States, British and French Governments
PUBLISHED FOR THE UNITED PUBLISHERS OF THE UNITED
STATES AND CANADA PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO TORONTO
1919

COPYRIGHT, 1918

FRANCIS