Austro-Hungarian riverboats shelling Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, from the Danube River, part of the border between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on July 28, 1914, and bombarded Belgrade the next day. Illustration by Fr. Jung (Franz Jung-Ilsenheim).
Reverse:Ostmark, Bund deutscher ÖsterreicherHauptleitung: Linz a. d. DonauEastern Provinces (Prussian) German-Austrian ConfederationHead Office: Linz an der Donau
""We may now picture this great Fleet . . . as darkness fell, eighteen miles of warships running at high speed and in absolute blackness through the narrow Straits, bearing with them into the broad waters of the North the safeguard of considerable affairs.""
Winston Churchill, former First Lord of the Admiralty, describing the movement of the British Fleet to its War Station, taking the most direct route from Portsmouth through the Straits of Dover to Scapa Flow on the Scottish North Sea coast and the ocean beyond. From his history of the war. The movement put the Fleet on the high seas, less subject to German submarines and mines, and in a position to control the North Sea.
The World Crisis 1911-1918 by Winston Churchill, copyright © by Charles Scribner's Sons 1931, renewed by Winston S. Churchill 1959, publisher: Penguin Books, publication date: 1931, 2007
1914-07-29, Churchill, British Fleet
