: Notes and Queries Vol. V Number 130 April 24 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists etc. by Various Bell George Editor - Questions and answers Periodicals Notes and Queries

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GERMANY AND HER COLONIAL EXPANSION 17

SOUTH WEST AFRICA 36

EAST AFRICA 84

TOGOLAND AND KAMERUN 109

THE PACIFIC ISLANDS 124

KIAU-CHAU 172

GERMANY'S VANISHING COLONIES

GERMANY AND HER COLONIAL EXPANSION

The German Empire of to-day may best be described as an enlarged and aggrandised Prussia; its people imbued with Prussian ideals and drawing their aspirations from the fountain of Prussia.

In the Confederation of the German States as constituted in 1814, Prussia, under the Hohenzollern Dynasty, was always the turbulent and disturbing element, by methods peculiarly Prussian, working towards a unity of the German states--a comity of nations welded into one under the hegemony of Prussia.

It was not long before Prussian domination became irksome, and her provocative and arrogant attitude created a war with Denmark in 1864 and with Austria in 1866--the latter, a struggle between Hohenzollern and Hapsburg, culminating in the complete discomfiture of Austria.

The war with Denmark gave Germany the harbour of Kiel, together with the million inhabitants of Schleswig-Holstein, and Prussia emerged from the struggle with Austria the leading Power in the new North German Confederation.

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