Frederick the Great. A Military Life

320 FREDERICK AND WAR was still a man of the mid-eighteenth century. In 1761 he had encountered a jaeger lurking in the Nonnen-B ...

321 FREDERICK AND WAR withstand six hundred good hussars' (Warnery, quoted in Jahns, 1889-91, III, 2, 633). Seydlitz learnt his ...

322 FREDERICK AND WAR Frederick as the inventor of ring forts), but he remained a military romantic, and in matters of practical ...

323 FREDERICK AND WAR He was masterful in the way he conceived his enterprises, but there was often something lacking in the fin ...

324 FREDERICK AND WAR him in the wars. He indulged his love of open fires by having holes knocked through the roofs of his lodgi ...

325 FREDERICK AND WAR from Seydlitz. 'When the king placed his left boot in the stirrup this man was very clever at taking him u ...

326 FREDERICK AND WAR at Potsdam. This became the repository of highly secret maps, like the survey of Silesia which Major Wrede ...

327 FREDERICK AND WAR Moravians, the Wendish Saxons - were recalcitrant and unreliable. Frederick's own spies were of little use ...

328 FREDERICK AND WAR 1748, Oeuvres, XXVIII, 43). In 1745 he lured the Austro-Saxon army from the hills by a feigned retreat and ...

329 FREDERICK AND WAR vironment which was less susceptible to direction. The fog of war descended densely over the theatre of op ...

330 FREDERICK AND WAR intentionally, as at Torgau, or under force of circumstances as at Chotusitz. At Mollwitz, Lobositz and To ...

331 FREDERICK AND WAR low deeds, and resume his father's trade unabashed' (Oeuvres, VI, 95; see also Pauli, 1758-64, I, 230). Ot ...

332 FREDERICK AND WAR because he proceeded from the supposition that, in any confrontation, the civilian was careful to avoid of ...

333 FREDERICK AND WAR the victims rather than the beneficiaries of the system: In every other country in the world the nobility ...

334 FREDERICK AND WAR stupid blunders, the most incredible improbabilities. (Guibert, II. 170) The Prussian officers, so promp ...

335 FREDERICK AND WAR The following words were penned by the dark, tyrannical Old Fritz of the period after the Seven Years War: ...

(^336) FREDERICK AND WAR him at a distance from many things that ought to have received his closest attention. The soldiers rece ...

337 FREDERICK AND WAR made him an officer, and on his first day of duty in this capacity he deserted. Now there's something for ...

338 FREDERICK AND WAR directions with his orders, and a solemn silence descended on the scene. Everybody stood hushed and mute i ...

339 FREDERICK AND WAR 16-18). Many of the items of uniform had a distinctively 'Prussian' appearance. In 1792, in the course of ...