Identifier: germanypainted00dick (find matches)
Title: Germany;
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Dickie, James F., 1848- Compton, Edward Theodore, ill Compton, E. Harrison (Edward Harrison), ill
Subjects: Germany -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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saluted them and thecrowds of sightseers, who came to view the dailyspectacle and cheer the venerable ruler of theEmpire. The Zeughaus—the Arsenal, as we call itin English—has an immense collection of cannon,of mediaeval suits of mail, of modern weapons, andeverything that is dear to the heart of a greatmilitary nation. On its walls are frescoes of thehistory of Prussia, and of its famous battles fromFehrbellin to Sedan, and statues in bronze of itsmilitary rulers from the Great Elector to EmperorFrederick III. It is as a military Valhalla, whereKeith, Ziethen, Seydlitz, Dessau, Bliicher, Man-teuffel, Bismarck, Moltke, and Von Roon arecommemorated, and the fame of the Red Prince,Frederick Carl, and Unser Fritz extolled. Mostinteresting is the collection of orders, decorations,and the famous three-cocked hat found by Bliicherssoldiers in the tent of the * Little Corporal after KLEINER WANNSEE, NEAR BERLIN One of the group of lakes formed by the Havelbetween Berlin and Brandenburg.
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BERLIN 181 his defeat at Waterloo. The sword of honourpresented to Bliicher by the City of London isappropriately placed beside the spolia opima thatfell to the lot of old Marshal Forward. Now we pass the Palace where Emperor andEmpress Frederick had their dwelHng. At one ofthe windows a nurse was commanded to hold thepresent Emperor, when he was only four monthsold, and draw his attention to the funeral processionof Alexander von Humboldt in May 1859, that hemight be able to say he had witnessed the passingof the most illustrious scholar of Germany. On the fourth window of the second story ofthis Palace a horse-shoe is fastened. Therebyhangs a tale. It happened that the father of the* Red Prince had been commanded by FrederickWilliam III. to dine with him on a certain evening.When the hour drew near his princess informedhim that she could not be ready in time, and thatshe must be fifteen minutes late. Knowing hisfathers extreme punctuality he set out alone,promising to send the carri

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