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You may recall that World War I came to as the result of actions by a Serbian malcontent named Gavril Princip, when he shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austro-Hungary in 1914.\u00a0 You may recall that, at the time, the Austro-Hungarian empire was quite large. However, it did not include Serbia. With the assassination of the Archduke, who, as the nephew of Franz Joseph, was the next in line to the throne of the Empire, the Emperor Franz Joseph, the war in Eastern Europe began and spread to the rest of the continent.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Franz-Ferdinand-Archduke-of-Austria-Este<\/a><\/p>\n There were also forays into Russia, where US troops were sent as the Polar Bears to assist the Russian army and help them succeed in chasing China out of the eastern coast of Siberia and retaking possession of Vladivostok, where the Chinese government was trying to establish a seaport.<\/p>\n This video is about the recovery of a WWI British tank plus some videos of tanker crews, near Flesquierre, France. From the various films that have been available to view from that time period, the lack of real protective gear such as our troops have now, and the incredible uptick in firepower on the battlefield – never mind the sorry living conditions that the troops experienced – makes it clear that modern warfare equipment was miles and decades ahead of doing something to protect the troops.<\/p>\n Thanks to Wartime Wrecks for the video.<\/p>\n