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Its Regular soldiers were long-service professionals, confident in their marksmanship and discipline, and intensely proud of their Regiments. On 4th August 1914 Britain declared war on Germany to fulfil treaty obligations to Belgium, to preserve her own security and to preserve the balance of power in Europe.īy European standards the peacetime British Army was very small, but what it lacked in numbers it made up for in quality. Although Britain was a naval ‘super-power’, Germany took little account of her small army. The German time-table required an overwhelming attack on France, involving the violation of Belgian neutrality, before turning to deal with Russia. The European nations immediately mobilised their massive armies and set in train their long-prepared operational plans. Since these great empires extended well beyond the bounds of Europe, the war at once became truly global. The Central Powers were later joined by the Ottoman(Turkish) empire, and the Allies by Italy. The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, on 28th June 1914, was the final spark which ignited long-simmering grievances and rivalries between the powers of Europe and led to that costly and traumatic conflict known as the Great War, or (after 1939-45) the First World War.īy early August diplomacy had broken down and the German and Austro-Hungarian empires were mobilising, opposed by those of Britain, France and Russia. © Lancs Inf Museum & Lt Col E J Downham MBE BA DL

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