. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. He returnedto Prussia, andfrom that time hisrise was steady. In1858, as provisionaldirector of the gen- VON MOLTKE era! staff, he acted in unison with Bismarck inthe vast plans for military reorganizationwhich so greatly increased the strength of thePrussian army. The success of the DanishWar (1864) was attributable to him, as wasalso the success of the Austro-Prussian Warof 1866; and the Franco-German War justi-fied him in his method o
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. He returnedto Prussia, andfrom that time hisrise was steady. In1858, as provisionaldirector of the gen- VON MOLTKE era! staff, he acted in unison with Bismarck inthe vast plans for military reorganizationwhich so greatly increased the strength of thePrussian army. The success of the DanishWar (1864) was attributable to him, as wasalso the success of the Austro-Prussian Warof 1866; and the Franco-German War justi-fied him in his method of drawing up a planof campaign and directing movements froma distance, instead of joining the army in thefield. In 1871 he was made field marshal,and in the following year he was given thetitle of count. He was retired from theposition of chief of the general staff in 1888. Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltkc(1848-1915), a nephew of the famous field-marshal, was bom in served in the Franco-German War, andwas an adjutant under the elder Moltke. In1906 he was appointed chief of the generalstaff and general of infantry. Early in the. World War General von Moltke failed toachieve the supreme purpose of Germany, thecapture of Paris, and after the Battle of theMarne he was sviperseded by General See World War. MOLUCCAS, or SPICE ISLANDS, aname applied to the widely scattered groupof the Malay Archipelago lying betweenCelebes and Papua. The combined area otthe islands is 21,516 square miles. They aredivided into three residences, and Ternate. The southern part isgoverned directly by the Dutch, while thenorthern is ruled through native sultans. Theislands are nearly all mountainous and mostlyvolcanic, and earthquakes are by no meansuncommon. Nutmegs, cloves, cocoanuts,mace and sago are exported to Europe. TheMoluccas have been for centuries alternatelyin the possession of the Spaniards, Portu-guese and Dutch. At present they belong t
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