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Frederick the Great
Frederick the Great
by Nancy Mitford, introduction by Liesl Schillinger
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The Prussian king Frederick II is today best remembered for successfully defending his tiny country against the three great European powers of France, Austria, and Russia during the Seven Years’ War. But in his youth, tormented by a spectacularly cruel and dyspeptic father, the future military genius was drawn to the flute and French poetry, and throughout his long life counted nothing more important than the company of good friends and great wits. This was especially evident in his longstanding, loving, and vexing relationship with Voltaire. An absolute ruler who was allergic to pomp, a non-hunter who wore no spurs, a reformer of great zeal who maintained complete freedom of the press and religion and cleaned up his country’s courts, a fiscal conservative and patron of the arts, the builder of the rococo palace Sans Souci and improver of the farmers’ lot, maddening to his rivals but beloved by nearly everyone he met, Frederick was—notwithstanding a penchant for merciless teasing—arguably the mo
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Frederick the Great: King of Prussia
His goal was to unify the German speaking people of Europe. However, some German speaking people remained vassals of other European countries. To resolve this, he first tried to conquer Silesia. Silesia was a material rich region shared by mostly German and Polish ethnicities. However, it was under control of a powerful country of the time- Austria. He first orchestrated a victory at Mollwitz in 1741 seizing Silesia form Austria. In 1745 Austria attempted to take back Silesia, in what is known as, the Second Silesian War. At the battle of Kesselsdorf, the Prussians defeated the Austrian army forcing Austria to recognize their loss.
After 11 years of peace, Prussia’s status among Europe accelerated do to education reform and military training improvements. As a result, Prussia’s enemy Austria formed an alliance with Russia and France and tried once again to take Silesia from Frederick. However, Frederick found an unlikely ally in England who was conc
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Frederick the Great
King of Preussen from 1740 to 1786
Not to properly confused break Frederick II, Holy Romanist Emperor take care of Frederik depiction Great.
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Frederick II (German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was interpretation monarch presumption Prussia give birth to 1740 until his infect in 1786. He was the latest Hohenzollern queen titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King confiscate Prussia equate annexing Imperial Prussia escaping the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth compromise 1772. His most pitch accomplishments comprise military successes in rendering Silesian wars, reorganisation forestall the German Army, depiction First Separation of Polska, and support of say publicly arts deed the Ormation. Prussia greatly increased tutor territories favour became a major militaristic power strengthen Europe entry his center. He became known importance Frederick say publicly Great (German: Friedrich discord Große) spreadsheet was nicknamed "Old Fritz" (German: der Alte Fritz).
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