Frederick the Great. A Military Life
280 FINAL YEARS AND IMMORTALITY Lafayette. Frederick lodged more unassumingly than any of them, in a peasant house at Gross-Tinz ...
281 FINAL YEARS AND IMMORTALITY energetic correspondence on all affairs of army and state. Amongst other business he arranged to ...
282 FINAL YEARS AND IMMORTALITY intellectuals and the political commentators. For many years yet the memory of Frederick was a m ...
283 FINAL YEARS AND IMMORTALITY a dispensation that was dry, artificial and non-German. Thus the retired major Carl von Seidl co ...
284 FINAL YEARS AND IMMORTALITY observation, and his sympathy for the rococo style was of a different order from that expressed ...
285 FINAL YEARS AND IMMORTALITY until the outbreak of the Great War killed the series at a nineteenth tome, just short of the ba ...
286 FINAL YEARS AND IMMORTALITY library, as we have seen, and likewise the revealing diaries of the staff officer Gaudi were pub ...
287 FINAL YEARS AND IMMORTALITY would not have recognised himself as the same individual who, in the film Der Grosse Konig (1942 ...
288 FINAL YEARS AND IMMORTALITY track it down used to find Old Fritz lying on his side behind a wooden fence, and the sight of t ...
CHAPTER NINE Frederick and War Frederick's theory and practice of war are of unique interest in the annals of military history. ...
290 FREDERICK AND WAR Moreover the powers of Europe had adopted the system of regu- lar, standing armies which had been perfecte ...
291 FREDERICK AND WAR amounted to anything more pretentious than the idea of responsible stewardship that he presented in his Es ...
292 FREDERICK AND WAR But the myth of Frederick as philosopher-king had been destroyed and the intellectuals who followed the le ...
293 FREDERICK AND WAR From the pen of Frederick we know of the limiting effects produced at this period by the cost of the great ...
294 FREDERICK AND WAR 'humanity' of eighteenth-century warfare cannot always be detected in the contests over Silesia. The possi ...
295 FREDERICK AND WAR general rule that 'war is hell'. Its reputation for moderation comes from the fact that atrocities in othe ...
296 FREDERICK AND WAR peace. The women have always had a hankering to wear men's pants, which would give rise to all sorts of co ...
297 FREDERICK AND WAR Oeuvres, XXVIII, 49-50; 'Pens^es', 1755, Oeuvres, XXVIII, 133; 'Des Marches d'Arm6e', 1777, Oeuvres, XXIX, ...
298 FREDERICK AND WAR never chooses to write on disagreeable subjects. (25 November 1761, PRO, SP 90/78) If Frederick was willin ...
299 FREDERICK AND WAR of friction between the British and French in Canada which more than anything else set in train the proces ...
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