Frederick the Great. A Military Life
24 Frederick, the last days ...
CHAPTER TWO The Silesian Wars, 1740-5 For two months in the midsummer of 1740 it was possible to believe that Frederick would li ...
22 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 11 September 1740, it was not just to meet Voltaire for the first time, but to supervise the progre ...
23 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 His officers were considered as mere adventurers in the trade of arms; his soldiers, as vile mercen ...
24 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 of the conferences with Schwerin and Podewils. Cereals were pur- chased in corn-rich Mecklenburg, a ...
25 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 the Silesian plain, would be complete before the Austrians could feed reinforcements into this most ...
26 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 On 31 December Frederick and his grenadiers arrived outside the massive ramparts of Breslau. The ma ...
27 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 and sounding music to the town square, where they deposited their arms. Unaccountably, Colonel Wilh ...
28 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 on rearranging other people's property in the 1740s. However, what struck observers at the time was ...
29 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 frontage which reached from Troppau to Schweidnitz, and extended as far back as the Oder between Ra ...
30 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 the coming battle to the greatly experienced Schwerin: By 1741 the Prussians had been twenty-six ye ...
31 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 undoubtedly premature, and it made its contribution to the one and a half hours of confusion which ...
32 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 the halt, and they laboured under the further disadvantage of being interleaved with isolated batta ...
33 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 pursuers, but Frederick and an aide-de-camp made good their escape to the village of Lowen. There h ...
34 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 Sometimes this coincided with the season for the reviews, when the ensigns brought out the colours ...
35 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 that he could comprehend letters that were written in simple lan- guage and short sentences. Moritz ...
36 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 Frederick breached the already tenuous treaty of neutrality with the city of Breslau. Early on 10 A ...
37 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 Leopold, had not been privy to the secrets of Klein-Schnellendorf, and he had prosecuted the siege ...
38 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 Renaissance facade of the episcopal palace, where Frederick and most of his suite were accommodated ...
39 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 his royal person in the large but still incomplete palace of Seelowitz, 'a charming location, worth ...
«
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
»
Free download pdf