Frederick the Great. A Military Life
80 THE ARMED CAMP, 1745-56 the Pensies et Rigles Ginirales pour la Guerre of 1755. This was a discursive and private paper which ...
THE ARMED CAMP, 174S-56 81 manoeuvres. The outcome helped Frederick to determine the practi- cability of various formations, and ...
82 THE ARMED CAMP, 1745-56 Field-Marshal James Keith was a newcomer to Frederick's small circle of fellow-spirits. A Scotsman by ...
THE ARMED CAMP, 174S-56 83 lors had made the decision in principle to go to war with Prussia, and the Austrians feared that the ...
84 THE ARMED CAMP, 1745-56 nh valley to the cold shores of the Baltic. Herbert Butterfield (\9S5) Winfried Baumgart (1972) andTh ...
THE ARMED CAMP, 174S-56 85 worded passages of the Testament of 1752. There Frederick had written: Our state is still lacking in ...
86 THE ARMED CAMP, 1745-56 about 'the pleasure of humiliating, or rather annihilating Saxony' ..Q pebruaiy 1756, PC 12125) - a s ...
THE ARMED CAMP, 174S-56 87 as much ground as I could in this first campaign, and provide better cover for my states by holding t ...
88 THE ARMED CAMP, 1745-56 Winterfeldt managed the mobilisation with undoubted techni- cal skill. The necessary reserves of clot ...
CHAPTER FOUR The Theatre of War Locked in the heart of Central Europe, the scene of Frederick's wars warmed but slowly in the sp ...
90 THE THEATRE OF WAR (b) The border hills These were a more or less continuous chain of heights which stretched all the way fro ...
_ „., THE THEATRE OF WAR natural obstacle to their progress was the line of the Oder, which they reached at the little fortress ...
92 THE THEATRE OF WAR A march of two days carried the Prussians from Halle to Leipzig (with a population of 130,000), which was ...
_ „., THE THEATRE OF WAR within narrow bounds until a short distance from Dresden, now becomes a mighty stream, corresponding to ...
94 THE THEATRE OF WAR defend it' (Tempelhoff, 1783-1801, I, 132). A Turkish envoy once described Bohemia as 'the real pride and ...
_ „., THE THEATRE OF WAR and stores, though the actual head of navigation for the larger boats lay twenty miles upstream at Meln ...
96 THE THEATRE OF WAR Wheat, rye and barley were heavily cultivated in the immediate neighbourhood of the capital, and Lower Sil ...
_ „., THE THEATRE OF WAR operating from there we can make the Austrians fear for the safety of Vienna, which is of a different o ...
_ „., THE THEATRE OF WAR immediately above Schweidnitz in the region of Waldenburg, as they did in 1760 and 1762. As some compen ...
_ „., THE THEATRE OF WAR Minor features of the terrain As we shall have occasion to notice, the routes of Central Europe answere ...
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