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APNews -- "Great Britain and Germany went to war tonight," wrote the AP's Robert Collins on August 1, 1914 from London, noting that "all Europe is now in arms." The Associated Press had covered war before, but not since the Napoleonic wars a century earlier had so many armies battled over so great an extent. This was the Great War, called "the European War" or "the World War" by contemporaries. Ten million combatants would die before it ended with Germany's defeat on Nov. 11, 1918. (6:21) The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress http://www.apnews.com/ https://plus.google.com/+AP/ https://www.facebook.com/APNews https://twitter.com/AP http://www.instagram.com/apnews