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Russian Imperial Yacht

Tumultuous times ahead – the days of smooth sailing lost

July 26, 2020 No Comments

On 28 June 1914, the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. It was an incident which was to set a chain of events in motion, culminating in World War I. Not quite a month after the assassination, around 20-23 July 1914, the French President, Raymond Poincaré, made an

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