Russian troops on the Southwestern front in World War One. Soldiers riding horses and seated in horse carts cross a major bridge. Officers arrive and soldiers stand at attention. Commander of Russian Forces, General Mikhail Vasiliyevich Alekseyev, and his staff, review the troops. The General stops to greet Russian Orthodox Priest. Russian Army on the march in background.
French generals converse over plans during World War I. French soldiers march during a parade. WWI propaganda shows a forlorn woman holding a sign saying “France”. In front of flames, a caricatured, fat German general sneers at Marianne, the personification of France. Marianne showing her wrists with chained handcuffs. French soldiers marching triumphantly upon their departure to defend Belgium upon German invasion. French infantry marching, ride in horse carts to the battlefields. French soldiers, animals, supplies, and artillery cross a floating pontoon bridge. Teams of white oxen pull French artillery into Belgium. French soldiers fire artillery cannon. Explosion from artillery fire in the field, with cavalry charging.
French General Ferdinand Foch observes experimental mobile personnel shields (also known as “creeper tanks”) during demonstration, World War 1. French soldiers carrying wheels and parts to assemble creeper tanks. Assembled mobile personnel shields lined up neatly in a field. French soldiers assemble mobile personnel shields. General Ferdinand Foch and other French officers watch a soldier crawl into his mobile personnel shield Soldiers crawling in their creeper tanks across a field, one pulling a rope with him. A soldier crawls with his creeper tank across a simulation battlefield complete with explosions. General Ferdinand Foch observes the demonstration from afar. A soldier crawling with a mobile personnel shield near an explosion. In distance, soldier in creeper tank is seen frantically backing away from explosion.
An operator types on an early printing telegraph machine. A man reads a paper punch tape as another man uses a telegraph Morse code perforator to convert messages to Morse code.
German invasion of Brussels after the German Empire declared war on Belgium in World War 1. Belgian Army cavalry respond to German attack in Louvain (Leuven). Fallen tree in the middle of a road. German artillery bombing of Louvain (Leuven). Military officials at the observation point as German First Army attacks Louvain. Railway gun aiming. Railway guns firing at Louvain. Explosions in the battlefield. Belgians evacuate from attack by the German First Army. Louvain in ruins. German soldiers marching into Brussels. German soldiers marching at the Grand Place or Grote Markt (Grand Place, Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region 1000), the central square of Brussels.
Parisians react to the assassination of French Socialist leader and outspoken war critic Jean Jaurès by Raoul Villain in France at the onset of World War 1. Throngs of people grab newspapers from vendors in Paris. The Le Petit Parisien front page announcing the declaration of war by Germany against France and the French decree to mobilize troops, with the headline, "La France décrète la mobilisation...." Crowds in Paris reacting to news. Reservists in civilian clothing, one with a child on his back, and uniformed soldiers, holding Lebel Model 1886 rifles with small French flags sticking out of their muzzles, marching in Paris. Aerial view of crowds of military-age men march to the Bureau Militaire to report for mobilization. French Bureau Militaire signs directing inductees. French reservists depart Paris by train, possibly from Gare du Nord train station. Enlisted Frenchmen waving good-bye from a moving train.