The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II. of the North German Lloyd passed in Sandy Hook shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday morning, having lowered her own westward record from Cherbourg by making the run ...

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, left, and Kaiser Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, circa 1905. John Glaser writes that Wilhelm II’s pettiness, lack of prudence, obsession with honor and status ...

Kaiser Wilhelm II was the last Emperor of Germany. His delicate ego, intense jealousies, and unpredictable temper led straight to the calamitous events of WWI and the fall of the House of ...

Under Wilhelm II, the German army became the most feared in Europe and the navy grew to a degree that alarmed Britain. If the kaiser was the most dangerous of Ms. Carter’s trio, Nicholas was the ...

This Kaiser Wilhelm II beer stein was given to my uncle L. 2294 H. A. Burton O.S. 1 R.N. by an officer from the SMS Hindenburg. ... the last battle cruiser completed for the Imperial German Navy.

Kaiser Wilhelm was subject of satirical cartoons in the Mirror from 1914 and are going on show in Navy expo. ... Kaiser Wilhelm II and his son Crown Prince Wilhelm were caricatured in his work as ...

On July 28, 1914, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II returned to Berlin after a long sailing holiday in the North ... Wilhelm was Queen Victoria's grandson. The Brits hated Germany's new, high-tech navy.

Two old men who played together occasionally as lads and have both retired to chop wood for amusement are Wilhelm II, 67, and Poultney Bigelow, 71, eccentric U. S. journalist-lecturer. While the ...

Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life In Power, By Christopher Clark A partial reprieve for the German lord of war. Reviewed, Brendan Simms. Friday 03 July 2009 00:00 BST. Comments.