Comments on: 269 - What A Great War: Art From the Trenches

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:51:08 +0000

Strangemaps - you don’t have to say “the Alsace.” It’s just “Alsace” (without the definite article) in English.

P.F. - most of the Moselle departement actually is historically German-speaking, which is why it was annexed by the German Empire along with almost all of Alsace (a small portion of Alsace remained French). However, the city of Metz is historically French-speaking and ended up German anyway, which was a major point of contention.

By: Bacopa

Bacopa — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:57:20 +0000

I’ll do your professor one better and give you a near citation for tte earliest se of the term “The First World War. I have a copy of Will Irwin’s _The Next War_ which that a col. Repington had been using the term since shortly before 1920.

I would say that teh real first world war was the War of the Spanish Succession and its spinoff wars that went on for decades.

Ah, what migh have been if Anne’s son survived and had been as smart as his mother and his great uncle Charles II. With no Hannoverians there’d not have been an American Revolution, America would gradually been spun off as a daughter nation over the course of a few decades.

By: El-Visitador

El-Visitador — Mon, 26 May 2008 06:57:52 +0000

«would be scary and strange if people in 1918 knew, that; “this is only the beginning”..»

Actually, many Europeans of 1918 knew war: war used to ravage through Europe at least once each generation before 1913: why wouldn’t it continue to do so afterwards?

By: Tommickx

Tommickx — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:06:00 +0000

Brussel in Flemish and Dutch.
Bruxelles in French.
Brussels in English.

Question: are the black lines railroads? (There definitely is a major railroad between Amsterdam and Brussels, and Brussels and Lille.)

By: P.F.

P.F. — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:22:15 +0000

Should be this:
http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/
More explanations here:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace-Lorraine
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trait%C3%A9_de_Francfort
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace-Lorraine

By: P.F.

P.F. — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:58:33 +0000

One of the French cities is Vitry (near Verdun). I believe also that the Belgian city is “Brussel” (Brussels in Flemish) but it seems not on the right place (too far West), and if the helmet is French-made (which seems so) it should be written “Bruxelles”.
Just a note on the Alsace-Moselle’s doubts for Linca (n°6): the Elsass-Lothringen/Alsace Lorraine historical region does include the two Départements of Alsace (Haut- and Bas-Rhin) and the Département of Moselle (chef-lieu: Metz) even if the latter has always been mostly French-speaking. I’m still searching for the webpage were I read that tere was a strategic-military reason to this, but I have not found it yet (I thought it was Wikipedia, but it is apparently not …)

By: Henk

Henk — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:33:25 +0000

I believe too that the Belgian city is Brussels. First you have these letters (ss and l). I can’t think of any Belgian city at the first world war front with those letters in it. Second it’s the capital. If the Dutch capital is placed on the map (A’dam), the Belgian capital would probably be also.

By: j forbes

j forbes — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:21:56 +0000

Poor guy. Not only did he have to fight in some war he never should have been involved in , and for ungrateful people not worth fighting for…he did it in that horrid hat.

By: Raf Uzar

Raf Uzar — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:14:37 +0000

The maps just keep getting better! :-)
Raf
http://uzar.wordpress.com/

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:15:25 +0000

would be scary and strange if people in 1918 knew, that; “this is only the beginning”..