Frederick the Great. A Military Life
300 FREDERICK AND WAR by the Abbe de Saint-Pierre (1713) could obtain only in an unreal world, where 'mine' and 'yours' did not ...
301 FREDERICK AND WAR work of the men who direct the armies.' He did not intend that this chronicle or any other should be read ...
302 FREDERICK AND WAR Whereas in peacetime the Austrian and Russian troops, and especially their regiments of cavalry, were scat ...
303 FREDERICK AND WAR going to be a long one, and that he would have to take drastic measures to stave off his defeat at the han ...
304 FREDERICK AND WAR when you consider that a contemporary army was a unitary force, without organic articulation, you must con ...
305 FREDERICK AND WAR that was first evident in 1758, and which became more pronounced in the final decades of the reign: A gene ...
306 FREDERICK AND WAR seemed to be happening (PC 12345, 13332; Stille, 1764, 191; Mitchell, 1850, I, 359). The greater part of F ...
307 FREDERICK AND WAR appreciable check to the army's progress, for rivers and canals ceased to present significant obstacles af ...
308 FREDERICK AND WAR but towards the end of the Seven Years War this practice was changed, for it betrayed the strength of our ...
309 FREDERICK AND WAR In its essence, the Oblique Order was the bringing together of a powerful concentration of force against a ...
310 FREDERICK AND WAR enemy were sited, the less willing they were to come out and disturb him. Moreover, at Zorndorf, Kunersdor ...
311 FREDERICK AND WAR cult in the eighteenth century, which was a period of unitary armies and linear tactics. A force, once com ...
312 FREDERICK AND WAR allied armies' (Arkhiv Knyazya Vorontsova, 1870-95, IV, 394). Matters such as these were a subject of deba ...
313 FREDERICK AND WAR meadows at Prague, the failure of the assaults on the rearward Russian position behind the Kuh-Grund at Ku ...
314 FREDERICK AND WAR 276). This was the scheme of Hochkirch, Maxen and Liegnitz, and Cogniazzo writes about it in terms which s ...
315 FREDERICK AND WAR His troops in that battle were of untypically high quality for that stage in his campaigns, for the previ ...
316 FREDERICK AND WAR assaults, Frederick strove by every means he could to disperse the enemy concentrations from the hilltop p ...
317 FREDERICK AND WAR Prussian military machine could not admit of infantrymen who might be able to fight out of sight of their ...
318 FREDERICK AND WAR (1786), 1881, 198; Kaltenborn, 1790-1, II, 55). He certainly put his troops through a series of artificial ...
319 FREDERICK AND WAR from smooth-bore muskets in volleys rather than in individual fire, as was shown by Prussian experiments e ...
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