INTRODUCTION

Chapter I
the causes of the franco-German war.

Chapter ii
from WOeRTH to Gravelotte

Chapter iii
Sedan

Chapter iv
the founding of the French Republic

Chapter V
the founding of the French Republic—­continued

Chapter vi
the German empire

Chapter vii
the eastern question

Chapter viii
the Russo-Turkish war

Chapter ix
the Balkan settlement

Chapter X
the making of Bulgaria

Chapter xi
nihilism and absolutism in Russia

Chapter xii
the triple and dual alliances

Chapter xiii
the central Asian question

Chapter xiv
the afghan and Turkoman campaigns

Chapter xv
Britain in Egypt

Chapter xvi
Gordon and the Sudan

Chapter xvii
the conquest of the Sudan

Chapter xviii
the partition of Africa

Chapter xix
the Congo free state

Chapter xx
Russia in the far east

Chapter XXI
the new grouping of the great powers (1900-1907)

Chapter xxii
Teuton versus Slav (1908-13)

Chapter xxiii
the crisis of 1914

INDEX

MAPS AND PLANS

Campaigns of 1859-71

Sketch Map of the District between Metz and the Rhine

Plan of the Battle of Woerth

Plan of the Battles of Rezonville and Gravelotte

Plan of the Battle of Sedan

Map of Bulgaria

Plan of Plevna

Map of the Treaties of Berlin and San Stefano

Map of Thessaly

Map of Afghanistan

Battle of Maiwand

Battle of Alexandria (Bombardment of, 1882)

Map of the Nile

The Battle of Omdurman