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Hiram was hired by Spencer D. Schuyler to be his chief engineer. Schuyler was the founder of the United States Electric company.
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Maxim was awarded the Legion d'Honneur(legion of honor, the highest decoration bestowed by nation). He was awarded this for is accomplishments.
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Hiram had completed the machine gun that fired six hundred bulets a minute. The US War Department had refused to se it based on it was unworthy bu U.S. military standards.
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Sir Hiram had founded the Maxim Gun Company. The maxim Gun Company was built to build Hirams gun inventions. However Maxims company was bought out by Vickers Limited in 1896.
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Hiram had created the captive flying machine, since his airplane had failed. He used the air plane and attached cables to it so the pilots could get adjusted to the controls.
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife had created a tension between Austria-Hungria and Serbia. Austria-Hungria had declared war on Serbia.
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The first air raid took place on Britian. German zeppelins drop bombs on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn on the eastern coast of England.
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In the second battle of Ypres the Germans had dug pressurized cylinders that had slowly delivered chlorine gas into the air, which the French army had perseved it to act as a smoke screen to the german srmy.
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The Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat. The Lusitania had been carrying amunition to Britian stealthly, along with pasangers. The Lusitania had 1,198 casualties.
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Britain had established a conscription saying that you had to serve your country in the military for a certain period of time. There was conscientious objector for those who didnt bear arms.
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Russian hospital ship "Portugal" was sunk by a submarine without warning.
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The battle of Jutland. Was a major naval battle that included Germany and Britain.
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Germans sent a note to the United States Government rejecting the British offer to permit passage to deliver food to poland from the united states.
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On the third phase of Battle of Somme, Fourteen tanks went on to attack and break the German line. This was fought by the French and British armys colaberating togeather against the Germain Empire.
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The treaty of Brest-Litocsk was signed between the Russia and Germany. Russia had agreed to lose some of their most fertile farming areas.
