Britain Entered The Great War

Today, Monday,  4 August, 2014, at 23:00 BST (British Summer Time), is a very special and solemn day of reflection, as today marks exactly 100 years (4 years, 3 months, and 8 days) that Britain (then known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, officially known today as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) Entered The Great War (in what is now known as World War 1, or WWI, or WW1) after the German Empire (modern-day Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany) failed to respond to Britain’s ultimatum, which the ultimatum was under the leadership of the then-Prime Minister of Britain, Herbert Asquith (born as Herbert Henry Asquith, also known as H. H. Asquith, later ennobled as 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, which gave him the full name as Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith; born on Sunday, 12 September, 1852; died on Wednesday, 15 February, 1928) and the then-Foreign State Sir Edward Grey, (born as Edward Grey, better known as Sir Edward Grey Baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart, modern abbreviation Bt), later ennobled as Viscount Grey of Fallodon, which gave him the full-name as Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon; born on Friday, 25 April, 1862; died on Thursday, 7 September, 1933). The ultimatum that Britain presented to Germany was for Germany to retreat from Belgium (officially, the Kingdom of Belgium) by midnight of Sunday, 3 August, 1914. If they fail or ignore to do so, then Britain will declare war on Germany in honour of defending the neutrality of Belgium.

Websites and Sources

This content of this blogspot post, “Britain Entered The Great War”, is taken from websites that I consider both informative and reliable. The objective of this blogspot post is not to provide information, but to help those informative and reliable websites to be noticed. Some, if not all, of those informative and reliable websites are already noticed, but I still find it best to post their content due to both copyright and educational purposes.

The Heritage of the Great War / First World War. Graphic color photos, pictures and music
A multimedia history of World War I
The Heritage of the Great War, Netherlands
The World War I Document Archive
Maps of Europe
Your Family History of World War I – Europeana 1914–1918
EFG1914 – Film digitisation project on First World War
WWI Films on the European Film Gateway
World War I British press photograph collection
The British Pathé WW1 Film Archive

The Great War

Today, Sunday,  3 August, 2014, is a very special and solemn day of reflection, as today marks exactly 100 years (4 years, 3 months, and 7 days) of the start of the The Great War (in what is now known as World War 1, or WWI, or WW1); it is on this date that most, if not all, of The Great War historians declare this date as the official start of The Great War (despite the date of Monday,  28 July, 2014, also marks 100 years of the official start of The Great War) after the German Empire (modern-day Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany) declared war on the French Third Republic (modern-day France, officially the French Republic).

Websites and Sources

This content of this blogspot post, “The Great War”, is taken from websites that I consider both informative and reliable. The objective of this blogspot post is not to provide information, but to help those informative and reliable websites to be noticed. Some, if not all, of those informative and reliable websites are already noticed, but I still find it best to post their content due to both copyright and educational purposes.

The Heritage of the Great War / First World War. Graphic color photos, pictures and music
A multimedia history of World War I
The Heritage of the Great War, Netherlands
The World War I Document Archive
Maps of Europe
Your Family History of World War I – Europeana 1914–1918
EFG1914 – Film digitisation project on First World War
WWI Films on the European Film Gateway
World War I British press photograph collection
The British Pathé WW1 Film Archive