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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

"It was agreed that the two British cavalry divisions and the British III Corps would deploy between Béthune and St. Omer immediately upon arrival on 12 October. 'I think we are going to hit the extreme right of the Germans & hit it hard,' wrote Wilson optimistically, reflecting Foch's tonic effect on the British Command."

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Source

Strategy and Command: The Anglo-French Coalition on the Western Front, 1914 by Roy Prete, page 153

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1914-10-12, 1914, October, Béthune