Frederick the Great. A Military Life
FREDERICK THE GREAT m - 'a« '. > A MILITARY LIFE ...
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First published in 1985 by Routledge & Kegan Paul pic 14 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7PH, England 464 St Kilda Road, Melbo ...
Contents Preface ix Abbreviations xi One Origins 1 Two The Silesian Wars, 1740-5 21 Three The Armed Camp, 1745-56 76 Four The Th ...
viii ILLUSTRATIONS 7 Invasion of Bohemia, 1757 8 Prague, 6 May 1757 9 Prague - the breakthrough 10 Kolin, 18 June 1757 11 The en ...
Preface This book is a product of the centuries-old British obsession with that most un-British of creatures, Frederick the Grea ...
X PREFACE Without Hohenfriedeberg, Soor and Leuthen, without the conquest and retention of Silesia, Frederick would not be Frede ...
Abbreviations Forschungen Forschungen zur brandenburgischen und preussischen Geschichte (1888 etc), Leipzig, Munich and Berlin. ...
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CHAPTER ONE Origins The rise of the future state of Brandenburg-Prussia is perhaps associ- ated in our minds with blurred images ...
2 ORIGINS but they became in character identifiably different from the Brandenburg-Prussians, who by the 1720s were emerging as ...
ORIGINS 3 the seal on the character of the Hohenzollern monarchy and its peoples. In point of size, the Prussian army grew in Fr ...
4 ORIGINS Only under the disguise of these spectacular eccentricities was I allowed to gather a large treasury and assemble a po ...
ORIGINS 5 eldest son of a modest and strict bourgeois household. His language as a king was shot through with images from the Bi ...
6 ORIGINS The older females of the royal family only served to widen the division between father and son. The blood of Stuarts a ...
ORIGINS 7 or in some later liaison, Frederick contracted an infection which, as Dr Zimmermann claims (1790, I, 79), was cured by ...
8 ORIGINS drudgery. In time he gained the freedom to ride in the neighbouring countryside of the Neumark, and he sometimes avail ...
ORIGINS 9 service, like some others, owned a corps of cadets, but such establish- ments trained only a small proportion of aspir ...
10 ORIGINS NCOs, men and supporting personnel. The two component battalions were stationed at Neu-Ruppin and Nauen, about forty ...
ORIGINS 11 the officers at Neu-Ruppin and Nauen. They were witty and urbane, according to some accounts, but inarticulate and li ...
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