Frederick the Great. A Military Life

240 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 'How goes it?' asked the king. 'Very well, thank God! The enemy are on the run and we have real ...

241 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 strong, but the garrison was very powerful, at 10,000 troops, and the quality of the men and te ...

242 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 The enemy were still in possession of the Prussian territoiy of Glatz, and it took heavy pressu ...

243 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756-63 British public was documented in broadsheets and decorated pottery; American colonists named on ...

CHAPTER SIX In Search of Old Fritz Now that we have spent so long in Frederick's company, we need not be surprised at the ways i ...

IN SEARCH OF OLD FRITZ 245 state revenues came directly from the produce of the royal domains. Frederick's quirkiness was, howev ...

246 IN SEARCH OF OLD FRITZ^246 dividing the regiments into groups, or 'inspections', and delivering them up to the mercy of Insp ...

IN SEARCH OF OLD FRITZ 247 preussische Costum, but to the spirit of the discipline and some of the fundamentals of military inst ...

248 IN SEARCH OF OLD FRITZ^248 war, and the re-shaping of the Unter den Linden, and the addition of further buildings, like the ...

IN SEARCH OF OLD FRITZ 249 Frederick had forbidden the forcible enlistment of foreign recruits, but nothing could deter the Prus ...

250 IN SEARCH OF OLD FRITZ^250 favourite and most successful architectural device. One such col- onnade ran west to the long low ...

IN SEARCH OF OLD FRITZ 251 means of orientation until the central axis of the park was opened up after the Seven Years War. With ...

252 IN SEARCH OF OLD FRITZ recreation. On the walls the inset paintings alternated most effective- ly with mirrors and panelling ...

IN SEARCH OF OLD FRITZ 253 (1754-7, Plate 23), a fanciful circular pavilion designed by Frederick in collaboration with Johann G ...

254 IN SEARCH OF OLD FRITZ^254 coronation, on 18 January, but as soon as possible thereafter he stole back to his winter palace, ...

IN SEARCH OF OLD FRITZ 255 mental, and were closed to all but a very few invited strangers. Foreign governments were disturbed b ...

256 IN SEARCH OF OLD FRITZ^256 want to know what it is like to be hanged', he once declared, 'just take a drink of Rhenish wine' ...

IN SEARCH OF OLD FRITZ 257 the earliest systematic history of the Seven Years War (Geschichte des siebenjahrigen Krieges in Deut ...

258 IN SEARCH OF OLD FRITZ^258 if indeed it was ever printed at all, but their opinions were well known in the officer corps, an ...

IN SEARCH OF OLD FRITZ 259 the way I live, and my kitchen train consists of an attendant, a chef and a pastry cook. I arrange my ...