Use your browser's back button to return here. Civilians join German soldiers on their first mile's march towards Paris. French soldiers, also joined by civilians, on their way to Berlin. Russian soldiers with band in St. Petersburg. Berlin students on their way to enlist.
French cuirassiers depart Paris on horseback.
German recruit bids farwell to what might be his mother. Austro-Hungarian troops waiting to depart from Prague. English and French, colors side by side, at the outbreak of hostilities. These care-free French troops would soon learn the realities of war in the industrial age. British hordes swamp the recruiting office.