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Abdul-Aziz, Sultan of Morocco, 353–59, 362–63, 720
Abdul-Hamid II, Sultan of Turkey, 418, 603
Adalbert, Prince of Prussia, 160–62, 166
Aehrenthal, Count Alois Lexa von, 603–8
Afghanistan, Anglo-Russian Entente and, 597, 599
Agadir Crisis, 183, 706, 711, 724–44, 748, 790, 807, 819
Albert, King of Belgium, 902
Albert of Saxe-Coburg, Prince Consort of England, 12, 42, 150, 299, 631
death of, 11, 13, 16, 21, 30
Edward VII and, 7–8, 10–11, 13–14, 16
Empress Victoria and, 23–25, 30
illnesses of, 10–11
Queen Victoria’s relationship with, 5–6
William II and, 27, 29, 38
Alexander, Prince of Battenberg, 37
Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, 54, 78–80
Alexander III, Tsar of Russia, 17, 34–35, 89
Anglo-Russian Entente and, 595
Bismarck’s diplomacy and, 82, 113, 115
William II and, 92n, 98
Alexandra, Empress of Russia, 29n
Alexandra, Queen Consort of England, xxvii-xxviii, xxxi, 9–14, 16–20, 27, 140, 156, 267n, 293, 357–58, 509–10, 601–2, 652–55
Churchill and, 762
Dreadnought and, 483–84
Edward VII’s death and, 655
Edward VII’s unfaithfulness to, 19–20
Fisher and, 457
Fisher-Beresford conflict and, 531
Alexandria, British bombardment of, 421–22, 504–6
Alfonso, King of Spain, 356
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, 27, 109, 376, 382
death of, 294–95
Algeciras Conference, 364–68, 590, 594, 606, 664, 673
Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse Darmstadt, 29
Almodóvar, Duke of, 364
Alston, Captain, 389
Ampthill, Lord, 65
Andrássy, Count Julius, 78, 80
Arabi, Ahmed, 420–22
Armstrong, Sir George, 536–37
Army, British:
alleged cordite shortage of, 548–49
in Boer War, 307–8, 453, 466, 553n, 554–56
and Britain’s vulnerability to invasion, 627–30, 635–37
offensive role of, 626
reorganization of, 453–55, 466, 560, 563, 626, 630, 644
war plans of, 744–48
Army, German:
Austro-Serbian conflict and, 862
Bismarck’s work on behalf of, 90–91
Churchill’s observation of, 818–19
expansion of, 848
Arnim, Count Harry von, 124–25, 131
Arnold, Matthew, 21
Arthur, Duke of Connaught, xxvi, 20, 299
Ashley, Wilfred, 793
Asquith, Helen Melland, 569–71, 577–78
Asquith, Herbert Henry, 192, 229, 291, 552, 563–80, 771, 820–21, 904
on abandoning Mediterranean, 827
administrative skills of, 576–77
Agadir Crisis and, 730–32, 737–38
ambition of, 568
Anglo-French naval talks and, 826
Anglo-German naval talks and, 701, 708–9, 802, 804, 817
Anglo-Russian Entente and, 597
and anti-war movement, 898–99
Austro-Serbian conflict and, 879, 883
background of, 567–69
Boer War and, 551, 555, 557, 574–75
and Britain’s vulnerability to invasion, 629
and British Fleet’s visit to Baltic ports, 850
Campbell-Bannerman and, 549, 557–59, 563–66, 574–76
Churchill and, 576–77, 748–49, 766–67, 773–75, 778, 824, 833–36
Edward VII and, 575–76, 656
Eulenburg Affair and, 663
finances of, 573
first marriage of, 569–70
Fisher and, 498–99
Fisher-Beresford conflict and, 528, 533–35, 539–43
and German threat to Belgium, 899–901, 908
and German threat to France, 888, 897–99, 901–2
Grey and, 576, 581, 583, 590, 593n, 906
Haldane and, 568–69, 573, 576–77, 806
home life of, 577–78
Imperial Preference debate and, 329, 333–35
Jameson Raid and, 574
Lichnowsky and, 844, 849
love affairs of, 578–80
Morocco crisis and, 591–92
Naval Scare and, 610, 613–17, 620, 623, 625, 701
1909 budget and, 648–50
oratory skills of, 568
Regulas Compact and, 557–60, 562
Russo-German conflict and, 899–900
and veto power of House of Lords, 650–51, 654, 657–61
war plans and, 744–48
wedding of, 573
Asquith, Margot Tennant, 228–29, 316–17, 320, 323, 330, 567n, 569–74, 614, 908
Asquith’s attraction to, 570–71
Asquith’s career and, 574
Asquith’s courtship of, 571–73
Asquith’s first marriage and, 569–70
Asquith’s love affairs and, 579–80
background of, 571
home life of, 577–78
Jennie Churchill and, 751
Lichnowsky and, 844
pregnancies of, 574, 577
in society, 571–73
and veto power of House of Lords, 661
wedding of, 573
Winston Churchill’s Naval Estimates and, 833
Asquith, Violet, 578, 748–50, 773–76
Augusta Victoria, Queen Consort of Germany (Dona), 33–34, 37, 39, 109, 118, 652–53, 666, 671, 680, 683, 691–92, 797
Austin, Alfred, 220
Austria-Hungary:
Anglo-French naval talks and, 826
Anglo-German alliance negotiations and, 305–6
and assassination of Franz Ferdinand, 860, 865, 867–68, 880
Balkan Wars and, 838–40
Bismarck’s diplomacy and, 77–82, 90, 113–14
Bosnia annexed by, 604–8, 684, 693
Boxer Rebellion and, 279
Churchill’s Naval Estimates and
, 823–24, 828
Eastern Question and, 196, 198, 200
and German threat to France, 876
German Weltmacht and, 138
Holstein on, 127–28
mobilization of, 874
and opening Dardanelles to Russian warships, 603–4
predominance of, 53
Russo-German conflict and, 870–72, 876–77, 895
Schleswig-Holstein crisis and, 57–58
Serbian conflict with, 855–73, 876–77, 879–89, 891, 901
Serbian ultimatum of, 865–69, 879–83, 896
war against Serbia declared by, 869–70
William II’s visits to, 17–18
Austro-German Treaty, 80–82, 114
Austro-Prussian War, 18, 58–60, 65
Bacon, Sir Reginald:
Dreadnought and, 470, 475, 481–84, 489
Fisher and, 435–39, 444
Fisher-Beresford conflict and, 516, 536–37
illnesses of, 483
on submarines, 452–53
Bagehot, Walter, 642
Balfour, Arthur, 242, 244, 291, 311–24, 326, 365, 549, 552, 592, 646, 761
Anglo-French Entente and, 344
Anglo-German alliance negotiations, 269
Anglo-Russian Entente and, 600
background of, 190–91
Boer War and, 272, 321
and Britain’s vulnerability to invasion, 629–30
Campbell-Bannerman and, 555–57, 561–63
Chamberlain and, 311–12, 321, 331–32
Churchill and, 775
conservatism of, 322
Dreadnought and, 470, 478
early parliamentary career of, 314–15
education of, 313–14
Eulenburg Affair and, 663
Fisher and, 405, 464, 499, 516
Fisher-Beresford conflict and, 534–40
Grey and, 587
heritage of, 313
H. H. Asquith and, 575
House of Lords and, 642–44, 657–58, 660–62
Imperial Preference debate and, 327–36
imperturbability of, 323
Irish crisis and, 318–20
Jameson Raid and, 228
Khaki Election and, 289–90, 312
Lansdowne and, 338
Margot Asquith and, 570, 572, 574
Morocco crisis and, 363
Naval Scare and, 616–18, 622
nicknames of, 314, 318–19, 331
qualities of, 312–13
recreation of, 323–24
and reorganization of British Army, 453–54
resignation of, 555, 558, 662
retreat of, 323
romantic interests of, 315–16
Salisbury and, 189, 191–93, 313–14, 320–22, 324
social life of, 316
social reform and, 643–44
tenacity of, 322
Balfour, Lady Blanche Cecil, 313–14
Balkan Wars, 838–41, 843–44
Ballin, Albert, 178, 703, 794–97
Agadir Crisis and, 741
Anglo-German naval talks and, 707, 801–3, 810
anti-Semitism and, 798–99
background of, 794–96
and British Fleet’s visit to Baltic ports, 850
Churchill’s Naval Estimates and, 823
German naval expansion and, 799–801
Haldane Mission and, 810
William II and, 796–99
Bannerman, Henry, 548
Barlow, Sir John, 637
Barr, Charlie, 158–59
Basserman, Ernst, 742
Battiscomb, Georgina, 19
Beatty, Sir David, 252, 496
and British Fleet’s visit to Baltic ports, 850
Churchill and, 769–70, 773, 776, 778
Bebel, August, 135, 179, 368
Belgium:
German invasion of, 902, 907–8
German threat to, 893–903, 905, 907–8
Benckendorff, Count Alexander, 596–97, 840, 846–47
Berchtold, Count Leopold, 604
and assassination of Franz Ferdinand, 860–61, 868
Austro-Russian negotiations and, 877
Austro-Serbian conflict and, 857–58, 862–65, 868
Russo-German conflict and, 872
Beresford, Charles William de la Poer, Lord, xxvii, 317, 366, 374, 376, 381–82, 439, 446, 501–43
on abandoning Mediterranean, 827
in action in Egypt, 504–8
ambition of, 516
Channel collision nearly caused by, 532–33
Channel Fleet command of, 514–15, 517–27, 532–34, 538–39, 542
character of, 519
Churchill and, 772, 778–80
commands of, 505–8, 512–27, 532–34, 536, 538–39, 542
Dreadnought and, 487–88, 520
early naval career of, 503
Fisher compared to, 503–5
Fisher’s conflicts with, 405, 510, 512–13, 515–25, 527–43, 772, 778–80
on gunnery, 397
heritage of, 502–3, 505
illnesses of, 519
Mediterranean Fleet command of, 516–17, 536
Paint Work Affair and, 525–27
popularity of, 512–13, 534
and relief of Khartoum, 507–8
steam-propelled ironclads and, 390
on submarines, 451
and threat of war with Russia, 515
travels of, 511–12
war plans of, 521–25
womanizing of, 508–9
Beresford, Lady Charles, 508–10, 528
Bergmann, Ernst von, 38
Bernhardt, Sarah, 22
Bernstein, Max, 675–78
Bertie, Sir Francis, 889–90
Bethmann-Hollweg, Felix, 703–4
Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von, 694, 894
Agadir Crisis and, 706, 725–26, 739–40, 742–43, 807
Anglo-German naval talks and, 702, 707–10, 801–4, 808, 810–12, 814, 816–17, 820
Anglo-Russian Entente and, 601
Anglo-Russian naval talks and, 847
Austro-Serbian conflict and, 857, 862–64, 868–69
background of, 702–5
Balkan Wars and, 843
Churchill’s Naval Holiday proposal and, 831
Daily Telegraph crisis and, 687–88, 705–6
Edward VII’s death and, 657
foreign policy role of, 706–7
German naval expansion and, 791, 848
and German threat to Belgium, 896
and German threat to France, 876, 887–88, 907
Haldane Mission and, 807–12, 814–15
Jagow and, 841–42
Kiderlen and, 718–19
Lichnowsky and, 843
Morocco and, 720–23
resignation submitted by, 814–15
Russo-German conflict and, 871–74
William II and, 702–6
Betrayal, The (Beresford), 542
Bismarck, Bernhard von, 51
Bismarck, Count Herbert von, 35–36, 72–75, 90–91, 102
Boer War and, 272
and British occupation of Egypt, 83–84
Bülow and, 140, 142, 147
Chamberlain and, 239
Eckardstein and, 243
engagement and wedding of, 100–101
Eulenburg and, 665, 667
and father’s conflict with William II, 97–98
father’s death and, 103
German colonialism and, 86–89
Hohenlohe and, 118
Holstein and, 125–29, 143
pro-Russianism of, 127
resignation of, 113, 128–29
William II and, 92–95, 100, 266
Bismarck, Elisabeth von, 73
Bismarck, Ferdinand von, 49–50
Bismarck, Prince Otto von, 12, 18, 48–103, 105, 137, 176, 259, 284, 698, 893
Anglo-Russian Entente and, 600
antagonistic toward France, 60–61
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p; anti-Semitism of, 798
appetite of, 71–72
Arnim scandal and, 125
Austro-German Treaty and, 80–82
Austro-Prussian War and, 59–60
Balfour and, 314
Beresford and, 511
Bleichroder and, 797–98
Boers and, 221
British war planning and, 746
Bülow and, 70, 103, 140–41, 146
Caprivi and, 110–14, 117
Chamberlain and, 239
character of, 49, 68–69
children of, 72–75
conservatism of, 31
country estate of, 71
death of, 103, 129
diplomacy of, 76–90, 98–99, 102, 113–15, 126–28, 248
Disraeli and, 82–83
Eastern Question and, 198–200
education of, 50–51
Empress Victoria and, 25, 32, 36, 99
and exchange of territories between Britain and Germany, 209–10
Fisher and, 415
foreign policy approach of, 54
foreign policy authority sought by, 55–57
Franco-Prussian War and, 61–64, 73, 76–77
Frederick III and, 30–32, 35–36, 38–41, 44–45, 59–60, 92, 207
German colonialism and, 84–89, 132
German constitution and, 65–67
German Navy and, 167, 175, 177
German unification and, 48, 58, 60, 64–66, 68
Gladstone and, 83–84
Herbert’s wedding and, 100–101
heritage of, 49–50
Hohenlohe and, 118
Holstein and, 82, 93, 124–29, 132
illnesses of, 71–72, 101, 103
insomnia of, 67–68, 71–72
Kiderlen and, 716–18
Kruger Telegram and, 224
legacy of, 100
Morocco crisis and, 352
office of, 69–70
and opening Dardanelles to Russian warships, 603
physical appearance of, 48–49, 72
Prussian ambassadorship of, 53–54
Prussian parliamentary crisis and, 56–57
Queen Victoria and, 42, 99n
Reinsurance Treaty and, 82
resignation of, 98–100, 113, 115, 119, 123, 128–29, 209, 668
return to Berlin of, 101–2
romances of, 51, 55
Russian mission of, 54–55
Schleswig-Holstein crisis and, 57–58
social life of, 70–71
status quo preserved by, 76–77
Tirpitz and, 174–75
travels of, 52
William I and, 49, 55–61, 67–68, 71–72, 78–79, 91–93, 99, 705
William II and, 34–35, 46, 76, 91–103, 113, 115–16, 120, 128–29, 209, 266
World War I anticipated by, 855
Bismarck, Princess Johanna von, 52, 55, 59, 69–72, 102, 124, 126, 141
Bismarck, Wilhelmine von, 50–51
Bismarck, William von (Bill), 72–73, 102, 175
Bülow and, 140–41