The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (130 page)

Caucasus
xx
,
163
,
167
,
181
,
267
,
338
,
380
,
475

cavalry
26

charges
304

French army’s cavalry school
138

as mounted firepower
310

regiments
303

scouts
298

Cecil, Robert,
1
st Earl of Salisbury P1.
6

Cecil family
108

Cecilienhof, Potsdam
53

Celts
249

Central America, US dominance
16

Central Asia: Great Game between Russian and British
40

Central Powers
297
,
597
,
598

Cetinje, Montenegro
437
,
457
,
461

Cézanne, Paul
142

Chamberlain, Joseph
38
,
42
,
46
,
48
,
543

becomes Colonial Secretary
26

breaks with Liberals over Home Rule for Ireland
44

and British Empire
44

and British isolation
36
,
44

character
43

death
543

dispute with Bülow
48

a highly polished debater
43
–44

mayor of Birmingham
43

proposes an alliance with Germany
44
–45,
56
,
57
,
95
–96,
103

and Samoa issue
252

a self-made industrialist
43

wants to move away from isolation
136

Chamberlain, Neville
459
–60

Charlemagne
204

Chatsworth, Derbyshire
31

Cheltenham Ladies College
93

Chicago World’s Fair (1893)
16

Childers, Erskine:
The Riddle of the Sands
104

China

British interests in
41
,
46

collapse of dynastic system
27
,
39
,
41
,
83
,
166

competition for influence in
41

emergence of Communist rule
166

first Hague Peace Conference
281

first Opium War
14

the Great Game
40

in Great War
597

and imperialism
39
,
40

Japan seizes German possessions
597

nationalism
232

Open Door policy
27
,
40
,
46
,
50

Paris Universal Exposition
1
,
4

relations with Japan
27
,
40
–41,
48
,
160
–61

relations with United States
55

revolution (1911)
252

rise of
xxii

Russian interest in
46
,
185

sends coolies to help the Allies
xx

and Tibet
194

treaty ports
41

US establishes a presence
16

weak and divided
153

Chinese navy
14

Chirol, Valentine
103

Christianity
237

Christians
1
,
380
,
441

Balkan
382
,
440
–41

in Macedonia
227

Orthodox
448

under Turkish rule
150
,
380
,
391
,
440
–41,
443

Churchill, Lady Randolph
540

Churchill, Sir Winston
54
,
110
,
127
,
134
,
245
,
374
,
424
,
426
,
496
,
499
–500,
579
,
593

becomes First Lord of the Admiralty
498
–99,
593

and mobilisation of navy
569
,
584

naval estimates
488
,
509

tells the fleet to commence hostilities against Germany
591

cities, improvements in
10

Civil Service Co-operative Society
104

Clarion
newspaper
103

Clausewitz, Carl von
316

Clemenceau, Georges
143
,
235
,
483
–84

Cleveland, Grover
40
,
41
,
43

Cold War
xxviii
,
95
,
116
,
183
,
314
,
496

Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Wilhelm
261

The Nation in Arms
311

Cologne, Germany
298

Colonial League
97

Colonial Society
82

colonies

assumed to bring wealth and prestige
81

European dominance
13
–14

French
149
–50,
500

German
81
,
91
,
115

management and defence costs
82

and naval power
87

Portuguese
507

Russia’s acquisition of
12

scramble for
xxi
,
54
,
412

Treitschke on
81

Committee of Imperial Defence
108
,
114
,
374
,
375
,
426

Committee of Union and Progress
394

Communards
140

Comorn (Komárom), Hungary
3

Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur
239

Concert of Europe
18
–19,
54
,
444
–45,
453
,
465
,
467
,
471
,
496
,
536
,
537
,
545
,
554
,
555

Congo
82

Conrad von Hötzendorf, Count Franz

on Aehrenthal
383
–84

and an attacking war
332

army career
218

attitude to Italy
218
–19,
220

attitude to Serbia
219
,
391
,
454

background
217
,
218

becomes chief of staff
227
,
383

character
217
,
217
–18

a convinced hardliner
466

death
603

demands a delay in declaring war
539

deployment of troops
576

Dolomites offensive
596

exchange of letters with Moltke
334

and Franz Ferdinand
220
,
458
,
467

‘harvest leave’ policy
529
–30

and honour
235

influence of
217

marries Gina
602

mobilisation
302
,
407

personal turmoil
219
–20

reappointed
457

regrets missed opportunity for preventive war
407

regrets not fighting Montenegro
462

and Sarajevo assassinations
519
–20

and Scutari
461

and Social Darwinism
247

temporarily dismissed as chief of staff
220
,
433

waits for war
504
–5

wants military action against Serbia and Montenegro
457
–58

war plans
335
,
402
,
506

Conrad von Hötzendorf, Count Franz (Austria-Hungary chief of staff)
xxx
,
217
,
269
,
302
,
312
,
324
,
437
,
526
,
565
, P1.
31

Conrad von Hötzendorf, Gina (previously von Reinghaus)
219
–20,
457
,
519
,
602
,
603

conscription
xxvi
,
5
,
258
,
259
,
260
,
275
,
296
,
455
,
480
,
481
,
505
,
523
,
538

Conservative Party (Britain)

in government
107
,
361

and Home Rule for Ireland
154
,
490

letter to Asquith
584

and Liberal Unionists
44

and naval race
127
–28

Constantinople (now Istanbul)
152
,
181
,
381
–82,
445
,
493

Kaiser’s visit
378
–80

Paris Universal Exposition
2

unrest in
401

War Minister killed by Young Turks
459

Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes (1899)
281

Cook, Thomas
10

Copenhagen, British pre-emptive attack on (1807)
95
,
118

Coppée, François
242

Corfu
61
,
478

Cornwallis-West, Daisy, Princess of Pless
53
,
84
–85

corruption

in France
484
,
544

in Morocco
153

in Ottoman Empire
39

Sukhomlinov
340
,
341
,
602

Cosssacks
570

Coubertin, Pierre de
20

Cowes, Isle of Wight
85
,
89

Cracow, Poland: Jagiellonian University
201

Crete
444

crisis (1897)
89

Creusot
445

Crimea
176
,
542

Crimean War (1853–6)
xxiii
,
5
,
147
,
179

Croatia
201
,
207
,
215
,
380
,
389
,
399
,
516
,
598

Croat national movement
209

deputies put on trial
399

Cromer, Lord
155

Crowe, Eyre
53
,
253
,
284
,
424
,
573
–74,
580

and
Daily Telegraph
crisis
126

memorandum (1907)
115
–16

cruisers

attacking merchant shipping
88

British
27
,
105
,
113
,
118
,
121
,
373
,
499