Holstein and, 125–27
Bleichroder, Gerson, 797–98
Boers:
Germany and, 221–24
Great Trek of, 216
Jameson Raid and, 218–21
Boer War, 180, 271–75, 281, 283, 292–94, 296, 321, 325–26, 338–39, 432, 434, 550–58
Anglo-German alliance negotiations and, 307
and Britain’s vulnerability to invasion, 627–28, 630
British tactics in, 307–8, 553n, 554–56
Campbell-Bannerman and, 550–52, 554–57, 574–75
Churchill on, 764–66
Daily Telegraph crisis and, 685–87, 689
end of, 310
Jameson Raid and, 271
Khaki Election and, 288–89, 552
Liberals and, 550–52, 554–55, 557, 587
Lloyd George and, 550, 560, 562
and reorganization of British Army, 453, 466
Bonar Law, Andrew, 662, 893, 906
Borden, Sir Robert, 828–29
Bosnia:
Austrian annexation of, 604–8, 684, 693
and opening Dardanelles to Russian warships, 603–4
Botha, Louis, 563–64, 765
Bötticher, Karl von, 97
Boulanger, Georges, 78
Bourke, Maurice, 394–95
Boxer Rebellion, 275–87
Bridgeman, Sir Francis:
Churchill and, 778–79
Fisher-Beresford conflict and, 535–36
gunnery and, 787
Britannia, H.M.S., 152–56
cadets trained on, 383–84, 392
Broderick, St. John, 450, 554, 628
Buchanan, James, 9
Buchanan, Sir George, 845, 890
Bulgaria, Balkan Wars and, 838–39
Buller, Sir Redvers, 272, 274, 321, 338
Bülow, Adolf, 139
Bülow, Bernhard von (elder), 126, 140–41
Bülow, Prince Bernhard von (younger), xxiii, 102–3, 106, 116–18, 138–49, 176, 697
accession to chancellorship of, 147–48
Agadir Crisis and, 741–42
alleged homosexuality of, 676n
ambition of, 669
Anglo-French Entente and, 343, 349, 352, 354–56, 588
Anglo-German alliance negotiations and, 245, 266–67, 270, 292, 300–302, 304–6, 309, 341, 343, 345
Anglo-German naval talks and, 700–702
Anglo-Russian Entente and, 595, 598, 600
anti-Semitism and, 798
background of, 138–43
Ballin-Cassel meetings and, 801
Bethmann and, 703, 705
Bismarck and, 70, 103, 140–41, 146
Boer War and, 272
Bosnia Crisis and, 605–8
Boxer Rebellion and, 282–83, 285
Chamberlain and, 266–70, 307–9
Daily Telegraph crisis and, 684–94, 718
Eckardstein and, 243
Edward VII and, 18, 655–56
Empress Victoria and, 109–10, 145
Eulenburg and, 143, 145–47, 149, 666–67, 669–71, 674–79
German colonialism and, 135
Hohenlohe and, 120, 122, 142, 144–47
Holstein and, 126, 128, 130–32, 139, 142–43, 146–48, 369, 664, 843
Jagow and, 841
Kiderlen and, 715–16, 718, 728, 743
Kruger Telegram and, 224, 231
Morocco crisis and, 352, 354–68, 663–64, 729
naval expansion and, 171, 179, 244, 269
physical collapse of, 368
Queen Victoria and, 297, 299–300
resignation of, 694–95, 702, 705
resignation threats of, 688–89, 694
Russian posting of, 141–42
Samoan crisis and, 258, 262
Waldersee and, 284
Wettmacht and, 138
wife’s influence on, 142–43
William II and, 138–40, 143–49, 151n-52n, 158, 263, 265–68, 680–81, 694–95
Bülow, Princess Maria, 142–43, 693, 695
Burns, John, xxviii, 560, 614, 900
Buxton, Anthony, 489n
Byng, John, 441
Caillaux, Joseph, 724, 740
Cambon, Jules, 717–19, 722, 724
Agadir Crisis and, 728–29, 738, 740–41, 743–44, 748, 790
Austro-Serbian conflict and, 864
Haldane Mission and, 811
Cambon, Paul, 255–56, 309, 840
Anglo-French Entente and, 342–44, 346–49, 589
Anglo-French naval talks and, 826
and German threat to France, 888–90, 892, 898, 900
Morocco crisis and, 361, 365, 589–90
Campbell, Charlotte Bruce, 547–48, 550, 552–53, 558–59, 564–65
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, 289, 330, 425, 499, 547–66
Anglo-French Entente and, 589
Anglo-Russian Entente and, 597–98
Asquith and, 549, 557–59, 563–66, 574–76
background of, 547–50
Balfour and, 555–57, 561–63
Boer War and, 550–52, 554–57, 574–75
and Britain’s vulnerability to invasion, 629, 638
Churchill and, 560, 766
and cutting military spending, 640
death of, 565–66
on disarmament, 562–63
Fisher-Beresford conflict and, 528
German naval expansion and, 696
Grey and, 557–60, 587, 590, 593n
Home Rule and, 556
illnesses of, 557–59, 564–65
Morocco crisis and, 589–91
private life of, 552–53, 564–65
Regulas Compact and, 557–60
resignation of, 575
social reform and, 644
South Africa and, 563–64
wife’s death and, 564–65
Camperdown, H.M.S., Victoria rammed by, 393–95, 476
Capelle, Eduard von, 862
Caprivi, Georg Leo von, 101, 110–17, 175, 668–69, 716
administrative style and purpose of, 111–12
background of, 110, 112
death of, 117
German colonialism and, 137
German Navy and, 162–63, 167
Hohenlohe and, 112, 119–20
Holstein and, 128, 131–33
Reinsurance Treaty and, 113–15
resignation threats of, 116–17, 119
Salisbury and, 209
Tirpitz and, 167
Waldersee and, 111, 284
Weltmacht and, 138
Carol, King of Romania, 717, 839
Carson, Sir Edward, 527
Cassel, Sir Ernest, 575, 655
Anglo-German naval talks and, 801–4, 810, 820–21
background of, 792–94
and British Fleet’s visit to Baltic ports, 850
German naval expansion and, 801
Cawdor, Lord, 405, 499
battle cruisers and, 495
Naval Scare and, 610
Cecil, Lord Edward, 250n, 252
Cecil, Lord Hugh, 331
Cecile, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg, 362
Chamberlain, Austen, 238, 312, 328, 332, 768
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 679
Chamberlain, Joseph, xxvii, 232–46, 426n, 549
Anglo-French Entente and, 343
Anglo-German alliance negotiations and, 243–47, 257, 260, 265–70, 291–92, 300–301, 303, 305–7, 309, 341, 343, 346, 348, 594
Anglo-Japanese alliance and, 339–40
background of, 191–92, 233–34
Balfour and, 311–12, 321, 331–32
Boer War and, 271–72, 289, 307–8, 321, 325–26, 550–52
Bülow and, 266–70, 307–9
China policy and, 241–43
death of, 336n
educational concerns of, 233, 237
Fisher and, 440–42
foreign policy interests of, 239–41
Grey and, 583, 587
home lif
e of, 238
Home Rule and, 235–38
illnesses and injuries of, 311
Imperial Preference campaign of, 325–36, 555
on isolationism, 241–42
Jameson Raid and, 220–21, 229–30, 240–41, 244
Khaki Election and, 289–91, 312, 325–26
Kruger Telegram and, 240–41, 244
oratory skills of, 235
personal tragedies of, 234
physical appearance of, 234
Salisbury and, 189, 191–93, 232–33, 237, 244, 246
Samoan crisis and, 257–58, 260–61, 270
South Africa visited by, 327–29
unionism of, 238–39
Victoria’s death and, 298
Victoria’s illness and, 296
William II and, 241, 261, 264–65
Chamberlain, Mary Endicott, 237–40, 243
Childers, Erskine, 632–35
Chinese Empire:
Anglo-German alliance negotiations and, 306
Beresford’s visit to, 511–12
Boxer Rebellion and, 275–87
Chamberlain on, 241–43
Fisher’s service in, 411–13, 415–16
German interests in, 171, 242, 276
Russian interests in, 242–43, 339
Christian IX, King of Denmark, 9–10, 57–58, 108, 140, 479, 595
Churchill, Clementine, 578, 773–75, 780
Churchill, Jennie Jerome, 750–62
Winston’s military career and, 759–62, 766
Churchill, John Strange (Jack), 751, 754, 756–58, 818–19
Churchill, Lord Randolph, 335
death of, 758–59
illnesses of, 757–58
Margot Asquith and, 571–72
political career of, 757
Winston’s childhood and, 750–51, 753–54, 756
Churchill, Winston, xxv, 542–43, 635n, 748–89, 818–37, 904
on abandoning Mediterranean, 827–28
Admiralty administration and, 769–89
Admiralty appointment of, 748–49, 767–69
Agadir Crisis and, 731, 735–37, 744, 748, 819
ambition of, 759
Anglo-French naval talks and, 825–27
Anglo-German naval talks and, 802–4, 812–13, 820–21
Asquith and, 576–77, 748–49, 766–67, 773–75, 778, 824, 833–36
Austro-Serbian conflict and, 879, 889
battle cruisers and, 784
birth of, 750
on Boer War, 764–66
Bosnia Crisis and, 605
and Britain’s vulnerability to invasion, 628
and British Fleet’s visit to Baltic ports, 850
Campbell-Bannerman and, 560, 766
Cassel and, 793
childhood of, 750–57
common seamen and, 776–77
early political career of, 759–60, 766–67
education of, 752–56, 758–59
exuberance of, 775–76
and father’s illness and death, 758–59
Fisher-Beresford conflict and, 531–32
German Army maneuvers observed by, 818–19
German naval expansion and, 819–20, 829
and German policy toward Britain, 842–43
and German threat to Belgium, 893, 907
and German threat to France, 891n–92n, 898
on German vs. British Navy, 820
gunnery and, 786–87
historical vision of, 788–89
illnesses and injuries of, 754–55
Imperial Preference debate and, 331, 335–36
Khaki Election and, 290–91
Lichnowsky and, 849
military career of, 759–66
Naval Estimates of, 821–25, 828–37, 848, 854
Naval Holiday proposal of, 830–32, 847–48
Naval Scare and, 609, 614–15, 618, 622, 624–25, 819
officers and, 776–78
oil-powered warships and, 784–85
physical appearance of, 766
political rise of, 769
Queen Elizabeth and, 781–85
Russo-German conflict and, 900
uniqueness of, 749–50
war plans and, 747–48
World War I anticipated by, 854–55
Clarke, Sir George, 453
Cleveland, Grover, 237
Clifden, Nellie, 10–11
Coeper, Carl, 479, 485
Conference of London, 839–41, 844
Congress of Berlin, 70, 198–200
Congress of Vienna, 47–48, 51
Conrad von Hötzendorf, Count Franz, 607
and assassination of Franz Ferdinand, 860
Austro-Serbian conflict and, 857–58, 864
Cromer, Lord, 343, 347–48
Cromwell, Oliver, 318–19, 641, 781
“Cult of the Monster Warship, The” (White), 488
Cuniberti, Vittorio, 469, 474
Curzon, Lord, 650, 659, 903
Custance, Reginald, 445
Daily Telegraph (London), 222
Eulenburg Affair and, 663
William II interview published by, 684–95, 705–6, 718, 801
Daisy, Princess of Pless, 653, 798
Defence of Philosophic Doubt, A (Balfour), 315
Delcassé Théophile, 340, 366, 598
Anglo-French Entente and, 342–50, 354, 356
background of, 342
Fashoda crisis and, 253–55, 342
Morocco crisis and, 354–56, 359–63, 367, 663
resignation of, 362–63, 367
Denmark, Prussian invasion of, 12–14, 18, 32–33, 57–58, 65
Derby, Lord, 205
Eastern Question and, 197–98
and exchange of territories between Britain and Germany, 209–10
German colonialism and, 86–87
Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish, Duke of, 311
Anglo-German alliance negotiations and, 291, 301, 305–6
background of, 190
China policy and, 241
Imperial Preference debate and, 329, 331–32
Khaki Election and, 288
Salisbury and, 189–90, 192–93, 201, 204
Samoan crisis and, 260
Dewar, K.G.B.:
Dreadnought, 487–88
on life of midshipmen and cadets, 383–84, 393
on shipboard life, 396–97
Dilke, Sir Charles, 87, 239, 605
Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 198n
Beresford and, 504
Bismarck’s diplomacy and, 82–83
Eastern Question and, 197, 199–200
and opening Dardanelles to Russian warships, 603
Salisbury and, 195–96, 200–201
South Africa and, 216
Victoria and, 21–22, 206
Dreadnought, H.M.S., 467–90, 782
armament of, 468–73, 484–85, 493
armor of, 475–76, 478, 494
Campbell-Bannerman on, 563
construction of, 402, 461, 467–78, 480–82, 484–86, 490, 492–94, 520
contractor’s trials of, 482
cost of, 477, 832
critics of, 487–89, 531
first voyage of, 482–83
genesis of, 469
Germany and, 484–86, 489
launching of, 478–80
secrecy about details of, 484–85
size of, 477–78
speed of, 471–75, 485
turbine power plant of, 474–75, 477, 481–82, 484–85
turret-siting of, 472–73
Warrior compared to, 413–14
du Maurier, Guy, 638–39
Dunraven, Lord, 152–53
Eckardstein, Baron Hermann von, 130, 156, 212, 230, 241
Anglo-French Entente and, 343, 345
Anglo-German alliance negotiations and, 291–92, 300–301, 304–6, 309, 341
Boer War and, 274
Boxer Rebe
llion and, 287
Chamberlain and, 243–45, 257, 268
Morocco crisis and, 356
Samoan crisis and, 260–61
Victoria’s illness and, 292, 296
and William II’s visit to Britain, 263
Edward VII, King of England (Bertie), 6–20, 35, 75, 140, 291
accession of, 298
Albert and, 7–8, 10–11, 13–14, 16
Alexandra courted by, 11
Alexandra’s illnesses and, 13
Anglo-French Entente and, 344–46, 354, 364
Anglo-German alliance negotiations and, 305, 309
Anglo-Japanese alliance and, 340
Anglo-Russian Entente and, 595–96, 601–2
appetite of, 15
Asquith and, 575–76, 656
Austro-Serbian conflict and, 879
Balfour and, 311, 322
Beresford and, 504–5, 507–10, 516
birth of, 6, 23
Boer War and, 272–75
Bosnia Crisis and, 606
and Britain’s vulnerability to invasion, 637
and British occupation of Egypt, 83
Bülow and, 18, 655–56
Campbell-Bannerman and, 555–58, 565–66
Cassel and, 793
Chamberlain and, 234
children of, 12
death of, 655–57, 793
Diamond Jubilee Review and, xxvii–xxxi
Dreadnought and, 478–80, 482–84, 531, 563
education of, 7–8
Empress Victoria’s death and, 109
First Hague Peace Conference and, 429
Fisher and, 404, 406–7, 415, 450, 453, 455–58, 460–61, 499, 510, 655, 770
Fisher-Beresford conflict and, 530–33, 535–36, 539–40
Frederick III’s death and, 45, 207–8
funeral of, 656–57
German naval expansion and, 183, 801
German Weltmacht and, 138
Germany visited by, 18, 652–53
House of Lords and, 645, 651, 654, 657–58
illnesses of, 16–17, 310, 575, 651–55
Imperial Preference debate and, 327–28
Jennie Churchill and, 751
Kruger Telegram and, 226
laziness of, 8
Marienbad visited by, 425
Morocco crisis and, 356, 360, 365
naval dress and, 376
nicknames of, 15, 20
1909 budget and, 654
Queen Victoria and, 7–20, 23–24, 293, 297–99, 301
Regulas Compact and, 558
Schleswig-Holstein crisis and, 12–14, 18
search for wife for, 9–10
smoking enjoyed by, 15–16
social life of, 14–16, 18–20
travels of, 9, 17–19, 556
upbringing of, 7–8
wedding of, 12, 27
William II and, 18, 27, 29, 106–8, 151–52, 154–58, 208–9, 211, 262–64, 267, 272–73, 297–301, 303, 529, 652–53, 656–57, 680–83, 697
Winston Churchill and, 762, 764, 767, 770, 774, 776, 778
womanizing of, 19–20
yachting enjoyed by, 152–57
Egypt, 631
Beresford in, 504–8