Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Krusher on May 08, 2002, 11:55:44 AM
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Not very relevent to anything past or present, just interesting.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm had drawn up detailed plans in 1900 for an invasion of the United States centered on attacks on New York City and Boston, according to documents in a military archive published on Thursday.
The weekly newspaper Die Zeit published details from documents it said it uncovered in Germany's official military archives in Freiburg. One plan foresaw a force of 100,000 soldiers transported across the Atlantic on 60 ships.
Beginning in 1897, a German navy lieutenant named Eberhard von Mantey was assigned the task of preparing an invasion of the United States after German and American interests had collided in the Pacific.
(entire article)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=5&cid=578&u=/nm/20020508/ts_nm/germany_usa_invasion_dc_1
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Yeah but that overwhelming urge to invade France took over...
I remember reading an article somewhere that said the U.S. was worried the Brits wold invade through Canada after WWI. It even showed the defense plans for Detroit.
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Another one of those silly "If we hit America hard enough early they will sue for peace!" ideas.... Don't they ever learn?