I am Indy Neidell, welcome to "The Great War"
You have brought us a lot of questions we domination started with this show.
about the war and about things that maybe we had not discussed during the episodes.
And in the special today, I will answer some of your questions.
Unboxing Jon asks: "Are those vastly different tracks still in use?" and this is a very good question
This is a very good question because I knew the answer to this question do not so I looked it up
and even just by checking Wikipedia for "Austrian Railways" I saw that all the neighboring countries
Now use the same tracks as Austria. But I noticed that Hungary and Ukraine
still have a number of strands from one another.
Now the narrow tracks where we have told you about in Bosnia and Serbia where we have been told about
who had such a big problem were almost all closed during World War I and
is replaced towards the end of the seventies. But they had so they used for 50 years.
Fraud_ asks: "Why Portugal joined the war on the side of the Allies and they won something about it?"
Portugal took part in the war in May 1916 when Germany declared war on her
but while it was neutral, she was busy since the outbreak of hostilities in 1914
Essentially then because of the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola in Africa
Because they shared a border with German Southwest Africa and the Germans wanted to use that line to material
to bring the German troops to fight against the English and Portugal were against it.
And was a big reason that Britain was the largest market in Portugal.
And submarine warfare by the Germans upset Portuguese freight.
Thus Portugal had several reasons to hate the Germans.
Possibly in 1916, Portugal held 36 ships against Lisbon at the request of the British
Germany responded by declaring war.
Died answer about 7,000 Portuguese soldiers in the war and to your question:
What they won at the port of Kianga was now located in Tanzania.
Though, something you did not ask but I'm going to tell you yet that this was a big move for the
Brits. Now they could use the Portuguese islands of Madeira and the Cape Verde islands as bases
to stop the German attacks on commercial vessels in the Atlantic oceaante.
That's the short version, but you will have to wait several years to get the long version.
Flesh asks: "Was Paris ever razed to the ground?"
No, never razed to the ground. Paris was bombed, first by German zeppelins
in the earlier parts of the war and at the end of the war by the Big Bertha cannon and then the
Paris cannons. But compared to most of northern France, you know, in the war zone
Paris was still slightly off. More damage was done in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War
in 1870. But the Paris guns fired in 1870 Paris 120 kilometers away but not yet effective
And here's a little trivia: The bullets of the Paris guns were the first man-made
objects that reached the stratosphere. Really.
Arbiter567 asks, "Are these real movies or are they made after the sound has been added?"
These are the real movies that we use. We have an agreement with the British Pathé
film archives to use their original images of war for our series and you can archive their war
see here
The sound is added later because it would take another 15 years could be incorporated into films with sound.
Timid_One asks: "Why the French did not agree with the machine gun?"
Not only the French but also British. when Hiram Maxim developed his first machine gun
He offered it to the British, and who would not
And partly because it was not a "real gun". Watch the romantic war mentality was still
present in the first weeks of the war: he was wearing bright colors, you brandishing a saber
and you marched to the sound of a music band. That was war and neck now sounds crazy to
to you there marching machine guns but have it there. When the war began the Germans had
approximately 12 000 machine guns, the British and French had perhaps a few hundred and derivatives
But to be honest, in their colonial battles - the only one the French and the British for two generations vochten-
they have never needed machine guns. They did not totally modern warfare.
The British made no machine gun corps until October 1915.
The French war plan had when the war broke out a large base in strength and mobility
So much so that skilled men like General Lanrezac were fired because they were too cautious.
The French did not realize that defensive technologies in the field is now much more than was offensive
technology and machine guns were almost entirely defensive until late in the war when they could make more portable models.
FM Lamarque asks: "Shall we look at colonial conflicts example to the German attacks
at neutral Portuguese and Belgian colonies in Africa in 1914?
Yes.
This was all for today, I hope you liked and you have learned something
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