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Postcard image of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Kaiser Franz Joseph, in the Secessionist style. The men are in a hexagonal lozenge, an image that may have been drawn from them riding in a carriage. Kaiser Wilhelm is wearing the uniform and shako of the Death's Head Hussars. Above the image, the word "Völkerkrieg" (people's war); below "1914; In Treue Fest" (fixed in loyalty).

Postcard of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Kaiser Franz Joseph, in the Secessionist style. Kaiser Wilhelm is wearing the uniform and shako of the Death's Head Hussars.

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Völkerkrieg (people's war)

1914; In Treue Fest



People's War

Firm in Loyalty

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Monday, October 12, 1914

"By the evening of the 12th [September], Gough, with the Second Cavalry Division, had attacked and captured the Mont des Cats position, which was a strategic point of great importance lying six miles northeast of Hazebrouck. There was great opposition by the enemy cavalry, which was supported by jäger and strong infantry detachments; but Gough carried all before him in fine style."

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1914 by John French, pp. 208, 209, copyright © 1919, by Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, publication date: 1919

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French, 1914, October, 1914-10-12, Gough, Hazebrouck