Am sympathetic to the Prime Minister because his hands really are tied in the july crisis because there is a tradition of political assassination in serbia. It is a very rich tradition. What they are doing on the 28th of june they are reenacting the battle against the audubons when they lost and were extinguished by a nation but stuck a dagger into the salten and they were reenacting this. So feared assassination and part of what was tying his hands. He spun the ultimatum in such a way that first he made it sound like he was going to comply when he was telling paris, st. Petersburg and london. He knew he could not except the ultimatum in entirety because he may have been assassinated. In his confession he doesnt talk about objectives very well. He talks about the thing itself. A better time in norfolk than serbia many years ago. We have eight minutes until the next presentation. Thank you very much. [ applause ] here we are featuring American History tv programming and we would like to
Footage of president george bush and bob dole with speeches. At noon fashion experts on first ladies fashion choices and how they represented the styles of the times in which they lived. At 10 00 tom brokaw on his more than 50 years of reporting on world events. Thats this Christmas Day. American history tv visited the mcarthur memorial which was hosting a symposium. Author Fredrick Dickenson talks about japans military involvement and rise as a global power during world war i. He describes japan as one of the few countries pulled in as an ally. This is about 50 minutes. Well, we will shift our focus a little bit to east asia. Professor Fredrick Dickenson teaches japanese history at the university of pennsylvania. He has degrees from Kyoto University in japan and Yale University where he has a phd in history. He has been a visiting professor at institutions in japan, belgium, in this country among his books are war and national reinvention, world war i and the triumph of a new japan. H
Screeria nigeria. The tenhour drive, frankly was definitely worth it. According to your program, what were supposed to do today is first offer some insights speak briefly on a portion of the campaign they believed to be particularly illuminating. Two things ill do real quickly, if i can, the first one deals with spring hill. Spring hill was the day before the battle of franklin and what it represented was a lost opportunity to attack some union troops either at spring hill itself or some who were in colombia and would come up to Franklin Pike that night. Essentially what happened is a profound mystery in many ways. Hood planned a flanking movement which was extremely successful. In fact there were federal troops still at columbia who were going to come up the pike that night. They failed to do two things. They could have launched an attack on the yankees who were in spring hill. They did not do that. There was a fight but it was not the larger fight that i think the generals had contem
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The other thing they could have done potentially was to cut off the kite so cut off the pike so they could be met by resistance. The thing there are two minus ascension made about with the federals would have done which is essentially they would have inevitably been destroyed. At spring hill, they had an opportunity of destroying or dismantling a large part of the union army. In some ways, this never gets the attention it is due, the yankees appear as unwitting accomplices of confederates who were bent on destroying them. These were veteran federal soldiers. These were battle hardened veterans of the Atlantic Campaign it elsewhere. The idea they would simply encounter confederate troops and meekly handed over the weapons is preposterous. There could have been a battle. It could have been at spring hill. I think the idea that the federals would have been dispatched with ease is simply nonsense. You can do what i did with my toy soldiers. You can do whatever you want with your imaginatio