For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.
The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.
The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.
With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.