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"WILLIAM, IMPERATOR, REX."
All over Germany there were great rejoicings and preposterous prognostications; many saw in the President's words the beginning of a real move to clear Germany of the charge of being solely guilty for starting the War.
*The Battle of Tannenberg was fought from Aug. 26 to Aug. 31, 1914. In it General-Oberst von Hindenburg, as he was then, and Major General von Ludendorff achieved their greatness in Germany by destroying the Russian Second Army Corps, commanded by famed General Sam-sonoff. *Cannae was where Hannibal scored his famed victory over the Romans in 216 B. C.