Great Britain declares War on Germany as deadline passes

GLOBAL WAR BEGINS IN EUROPE

Germany crosses the Belgian frontier at Gemmenich, 30 miles from Liege. The first casualty of World War I, as a truly global war, Antoine-Adolphe Fonck, falls. When the last causualty of the war, American Henry Gunther, is killed 1 minute before the end of the war, an estimated 9 million soldiers and 7 million civilians would die. Months after the war, a silent killer in the form of Spanish Influenza, would claim millions more.

At 11 pm in England, Midnight in Germany, the lack of a response from Germany prompted the following declaration of war by Great Britain on Germany:

“Owing to the summary rejection by the German Government of the request made by His Majesty’s Government for assurances that the neutrality of Belgium would be respected, His Majesty’s Ambassador in Berlin has received his passport, and His Majesty’s Government has declared to the German Government that a state of war exists between Great Britain and Germany as from 11 pm on August 4th.”

Other countries such as Italy, Romania, and the Ottoman Empire, would make decisions later on which side to back. Nevertheless, the world wouls never be the same. Unfortunately as many errors would be committed in the peace after the war, as during the war, to ensure that this would not be the War to end all Wars.

GAVRILO PRINCIP ENTERS BOSNIA ON ASSASSINATION MISSION

GAVRILO PRINCIP ENTERS BOSNIA ON ASSASSINATION MISSION

Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Franz Duke Ferdinand and another accomplice of the group of Bosnian Serbs that had lived in Belgrade, Serbia, entered into the Austria-Hungary territory that is present day Bosnia-Herzogovinia, on the evening of  June 1, 1914. Princip and others and the weapons to be used in the assignation attempt were smuggled from agent to agent from safehouse to0 safehouse under the safegaurd of the Narodna Odbrana, until on 3 June they arrived in Tuzla (about 75 miles from Sarajevo).