Telegrams Telegrams The Ems Dispatch (sometimes called the Ems Telegram) is the document that instigated the Franco-Prussian War. Bad Ems is east of Koblenz on the Lahn river. At the time Ems was in Prussia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ems Dispatch"
The Kruger telegram was a message sent by Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II to Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the Transvaal on 3 January 1896. The Kaiser congratulated the president on repelling the Jameson Raid, a sortie by 600 irregulars from Cape Colony into the Transvaal under the command of Leander Starr Jameson. The raid was intended to trigger an uprising by the primarily British expatriate workers but was a fiasco with around 30 raiders killed and the rest surrendering. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kruger telegram"
(Telegraphy) :Telegraph and telegram redirect here. For other uses, please see Telegraph (disambiguation) and Telegram (disambiguation). ...more on Wikipedia about "Telegraphy"
The Zimmermann Telegram was a coded telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann, on January 16, 1917, to the German ambassador in Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt, at the height of World War I. It instructed the ambassador to approach the Mexican government with a proposal to form an alliance against the United States. It was intercepted and decoded by the British and its contents hastened the entry of the United States into World War I. ...more on Wikipedia about "Zimmermann Telegram"
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