1/29/2008

World War 1 Started...



Right, World War 1, currently known as WW1. It all started with some guy, Gavrilo Princip, killing this Francis Ferdinand. He was important anyway, he ruled basically. On June 28th 1914, the heir to the Austrian Empire, Franz Ferdinand, was visiting Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. Somewhere in the south-east corner of the Austrian empire and some people there wanted to be independent from Austria and set up their own state which could run itself.
Franz Ferdinand had been warned that his visit could provoke trouble but he ignored this advice and visited Sarajevo regardless. As was common at the time, he travelled in an open topped car.

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And well you can guess the rest... some guy came along, through a grnade in, but Francis and his wife didnt's actually die! So Princip got out a gun and shot them both in the head...

What a great way to die! So anyway, that started up WW1. Just because some important guy got killed, a huge war was raged up! How pathetic! Well it is if you ask me! But, you know, people got killed if they made out with someones elses wife, well back then anyway...

So yeah, they all started declaring war on it eachother, and it kind of got out of hand...
On August 4th, we finally declared war on Germany and we went to war... People enlisted and got all trained up so they could fight, hopefully without dying before they got to the battlefield.

They learnt how to fix bayonets, how to crawl on muddy grounds, how to dig trenches quickly and neatly, how to put up tents, and all that stuff... but the problem was when they got out to the real trenches where the bad things happened.

Most of them thought it was like a play, that it would never happen, that they would never have to go out to the frontline trenches, but soon reality set in and they were soon living in HELL!
Rats ran over you at night, ate your food, and gave you illnesses... Trenchfoot set in with all the dampness and mud ALL over the place! Where ever you looked it was just MUD MUD MUD!

To find out more click below...

http://hubpages.com/hub/World_War_1_Trench_Warfare

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