The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II. of the North German Lloyd passed in ... to undertake there the supervision of the building of a great navy. "The cost of expatriation would be too great," he ...

The parallels between Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and a certain one-term ... and so built his own navy to compete with Uncle Bertie, (King Edward VII) and never tired of bragging about Germany's ...

To that end, Kaiser Wilhelm II had his military thinkers sketch out ... to sail across the Atlantic to engage and defeat the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic Fleet in a major battle. In addition, German ...

On July 28, 1914, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II returned to Berlin after a long ... The Brits hated Germany's new, high-tech navy. Well, London would have to accept German power.

Wilhelm was the last German emperor (Kaiser) and king of Prussia ... German armed forces and his driving ambition was to make his navy the equal of the British one that boasted of ruling the ...

Kaiser Wilhelm II and his son Crown Prince Wilhelm were caricatured ... exhibition launched at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth, Hants, this week. One shows the Kaiser spying ...

One of the few things that Kaiser Wilhelm II, who ruled Germany from 1888 to ... “Distractions, whether they are little games with his army or navy, travelling or hunting—are everything ...

This Kaiser Wilhelm II beer stein was given to my uncle L ... the last battle cruiser completed for the Imperial German Navy. Under the terms of the Armistice that ended WWI, the majority of ...

that he was "for hanging the Kaiser". He held the German emperor, Wilhelm II, responsible for the outbreak of war and the deaths of millions. The verdict of history, or at least historians ...