Identifier: peopleswarbookhi00mill (find matches)
Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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called, hut she was intercepted by a Japanese cruiser near Honolulu and destroyed. But with the others, his squadron made a formidable one and the menace to ships of commerce was a serious one. Great Britain had in the waters near Cape Horn a fleet of three cruisers under Admiral Cradock and they were ordered to seek out von Specs squadron and destroy it. Cradocks ships were not of a new type and their guns were light,but he hoped that the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau had not yet caught up with von Spee, so he obeyed orders and sought the enemy out. The two forces met on Novembe 1rst off Coronel, on the coast of Chile. Cradock saw he was outnumbered, but in a heavy gale he went bravely into action.But the preponderance of metal was too much and within ten minutes after the action started, the Monmouth, a mass of flames, reeled out of line and sank. The Good Hope, within an hour, was struck so seriously that she blew up. The little Glasgow was badly crippled, but man-aged to get away. The Canopus, which
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Members of the Lost Battalion Getting Their First Meal at a Regiment Kitchen. The four men with steel helmets on sitting by the side of the cart were in the fight, having but one days ration for the six days they were cut off. Members of the Lost Battalion were cut off from the 1st Battalion of the 308th Infantry under the command of Major Whittlesey. They refused to surrender and fought their way out of the pocket after six days of terrible suffering.

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