History of Friedrich II

A DAY WITH FRIEDRICH. (23d July, 1779.)

BIRTH AND PARENTAGE - Chapter 1 - PROEM: FRIEDRICH`S HISTORY FROM THE DISTANCE WE ARE AT.

    Chapter 2 - FRIEDRICH THEN, AND FRIEDRICH NOW

    Chapter 3 - EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

    Chapter 4 - ENGLISH PREPOSSESSIONS

    Chapter 5 - ENCOURAGEMENTS, DISCOURAGEMENTS

    Chapter 6 - FRIEDRICH`S BIRTH

    Chapter 7 - FATHER AND MOTHER: THE HANOVERIAN CONNECTION

    Chapter 8 - FATHER`S MOTHER

    Chapter 9 - KING FRIEDRICH I.

OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS - Chapter 1 - BRANNIBOR: HENRY THE FOWLER

    Chapter 2 - PREUSSEN: SAINT ADALBERT

    Chapter 3 - MARKGRAVES OF BRANDENBURG

    Chapter 4 - ALBERT THE BEAR

    Chapter 5 - CONRAD OF HOHENZOLLERN; AND KAISER BARBAROSSA

    Chapter 6 - THE TEUTSCH RITTERS OR TEUTONIC ORDER

    Chapter 7 - MARGRAVIATE OF CULMBACH: BAIREUTH, ANSPACH

    Chapter 8 - ASCANIER MARKGRAVES IN BRANDENBURG

    Chapter 9 - BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH IV.

    Chapter 10 - BRANDENBURG LAPSES TO THE KAISER

    Chapter 11 - BAYARIAN KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG

    Chapter 12 - BRANDENBURG IN KAISER KARL`S TIME; END OF THE BAVARIAN KURFURSTS

    Chapter 13 - LUXEMBURG KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG

    Chapter 14 - BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH VI.

THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG - Chapter 1 - KURFURST FRIEDRICH I.

    Chapter 2 - MATINEES DU ROI DE PRUSSE.

    Chapter 3 - KURFURST FRIEDRICH II.

    Chapter 4 - KURFURST ALBERT ACHILLES, AND HIS SUCCESSOR.

    Chapter 5 - OF THE BAIREUTH-ANSPACH BRANCH

    Chapter 6 - HOCHMEISTER ALBERT, THIRD NOTABLE SON OF FRIEDRICH.

    Chapter 7 - ALBERT ALCIBIADES

    Chapter 8 - HISTORICAL MEANING OF THE REFORMATION

    Chapter 9 - KURFURST JOACHIM I.

    Chapter 10 - KURFURST JOACHIM II.

    Chapter 11 - SEVENTH KURFURST, JOHANN GEORGE.

    Chapter 12 - OF ALBERT FRIEDRICH, THE SECOND DUKE OF PREUSSEN

    Chapter 13 - NINTH KURFURST, JOHANN SIGISMUND.

    Chapter 14 - SYMPTOMS OF A GREAT WAR COMING.

    Chapter 15 - TENTH KURFURST, GEORGE WILHELM.

    Chapter 16 - THIRTY-YEARS WAR.

    Chapter 17 - DUCHY OF JAGERNDORF.

    Chapter 18 - FRIEDRICH WILHELM, THE GREAT KURFURST, ELEVENTH OF THE SERIES.

    Chapter 19 - KING FRIEDRICH I. AGAIN.

    Chapter 20 - DEATH OF KING FRIEDRICH I.

FRIEDRICH`S APPRENTICESHIP, FIRST STAGE - Chapter 1 - CHILDHOOD: DOUBLE EDUCATIONAL ELEMENT

    Chapter 2 - THE GERMAN ELEMENT

    Chapter 3 - FBIEDRICH WILHELM IS KING

    Chapter 4 - HIS MAJESTY`S WAYS

    Chapter 5 - FRIEDRICH WILHELM`S ONE WAR.

    Chapter 6 - THE LITTLE DRUMMER.

    Chapter 7 - TRANSIT OF CZAR PETER.

    Chapter 8 - THE CROWN-PRINCE IS PUT TO HIS SCHOOLING

    Chapter 9 - WUSTERHAUSEN

    Chapter 10 - THE HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS

    Chapter 11 - ON THE CROWN-PRINCE`S PROGRESS IN HIS SCHOOLING

    Chapter 12 - CROWN-PRINCE FALLS INTO DISFAVOR WITH PAPA

    Chapter 13 - RESULTS OF THE CROWN-PRINCE`S SCHOOLING.

DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND WHAT ELEMENT IT FELL INTO - Chapter 1 - DOUBLE-MARRIAGE IS DECIDED ON

    Chapter 2 - A KAISER HUNTING SHADOWS

    Chapter 3 - THE SEVEN CRISES OR EUROPEAN TRAVAIL-THROES

    Chapter 4 - DOUBLE-MARRIAGE TREATY CANNOT BE SIGNED

    Chapter 5 - CROWN-PRINCE GOES INTO THE POTSDAM GUARDS

    Chapter 6 - ORDNANCE-MASTER SECKENDORF CROSSES THE PALACE ESPLANADE

    Chapter 7 - TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT

    Chapter 8 - SECKENDORF`S RETORT TO HER MAJESTY

DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND CROWN-PRINCE, GOING ADRIFT UNDER THE STORM-WINDS - Chapter 1 - FIFTH CRISIS IN THE KAISER`S SPECTRE-HUNT

    Chapter 2 - DEATH OF GEORGE I.

    Chapter 3 - VISIT TO DRESDEN

    Chapter 4 - DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT IS NOT DEAD.

    Chapter 5 - CONGRESS OF SOISSONS, SIXTH CRISIS IN THE SPECTRE-HUNT.

    Chapter 6 - IMMINENCY OF WAR OR DUEL BETWEEN THE BRITANNIC AND PRUSSIAN MAJESTIES.

    Chapter 7 - A MARRIAGE: NOT THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE: CROWN-PRINCE DEEP IN TROUBLE.

    Chapter 8 - CROWN-PRINCE GETTING BEYOND HIS DEPTH IN TROUBLE.

    Chapter 9 - DOUBLE-MARRIAGE SHALL BE OR SHALL NOT BE.

FEARFUL SHIPWRECK OF THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT - Chapter 1 - ENGLAND SENDS THE EXCELLENCY HOTHAM TO BERLIN

    Chapter 2 - LANGUAGE OF BIRDS: EXCELLENCY HOTHAM PROVES UNAVAILING

    Chapter 3 - CAMP OF RADEWITZ

    Chapter 4 - EXCELLENCY HOTHAM QUITS BERLIN IN HASTE

    Chapter 5 - JOURNEY TO THE REICH.

    Chapter 6 - JOURNEY HOMEWARDS FROM THE REICH; CATASTROPHE ON JOURNEY HOMEWARDS

    Chapter 7 - CATASTROPHE, AND MAJESTY, ARRIVE IN BERLIN

    Chapter 8 - SEQUEL TO CROWN-PRINCE AND FRIENDS

    Chapter 9 - COURT-MARTIAL ON CROWN-PRINCE AND CONSORTS

CROWN-PRINCE RETRIEVED: LIFE AT CUSTRIN - Chapter 1 - CHAPLAIN MULLER WAITS ON THE CROWN-PRINCE

    Chapter 2 - CROWN-PRINCE TO REPENT AND NOT PERISH.

    Chapter 3 - WILHELMINA IS TO WED THE PRINCE OF BAIREUTH.

    Chapter 4 - CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN PREUSSEN AND ELSEWHERE

    Chapter 5 - INTERVIEW OF MAJESTY AND CROWN-PRINCE AT CUSTRIN

    Chapter 6 - WILHELMINA`S WEDDING.

LAST STAGE OF FRIEDRICH`S APPRENTICESHIP: LIFE IN RUPPIN - Chapter 1 - PRINCESS ELIZABETH CHRISTINA OF BRUNSWICK-BEVERN

    Chapter 2 - SMALL INCIDENTS AT RUPPIN

    Chapter 3 - THE SALZBURGERS

    Chapter 4 - PRUSSIAN MAJESTY VISITS THE KAISER

    Chapter 5 - GHOST OF THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE RISES; TO NO PURPOSE.

    Chapter 6 - KING AUGUST MEDITATING GREAT THINGS FOR POLAND

    Chapter 7 - CROWN-PRINCE`S MARRIAGE

    Chapter 8 - KING AUGUST DIES; AND POLAND TAKES FIRE.

    Chapter 9 - KAISER`S SHADOW-HUNT HAS CAUGHT FIRE.

    Chapter 10 - CROWN-PRINCE GOES TO THE RHINE CAMPAIGN

    Chapter 11 - IN PAPA`S SICK-ROOM; PRUSSIAN INSPECTIONS: END OF WAR.

AT REINSBERG - Chapter 1 - MANSION OF REINSBERG.

    Chapter 2 - MANSION OF REINSBERG

    Chapter 3 - CROWN-PRINCE MAKES A MORNING CALL

    Chapter 4 - NEWS OF THE DAY

    Chapter 5 - VISIT AT LOO

    Chapter 6 - LAST YEAR OF REINSBERG; JOURNEY TO PREUSSEN

    Chapter 7 - LAST YEAR OF REINSBERG: TRANSIT OF BALTIMORE AND OTHER PERSONS AND THINGS.

    Chapter 8 - DEATH OF FRIEDRICH WILHELM

FRIEDRICH TAKES THE REINS IN HAND - Chapter 1 - PHENOMENA OF FRIEDRICH`S ACCESSION

    Chapter 2 - THE HOMAGINGS.

    Chapter 3 - FRIEDRICH MAKES AN EXCURSION, NOT OF DIRECT SORT INTO THE CLEVE COUNTRIES.

    Chapter 4 - VOLTAIRE`S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH FRIEDRICH

    Chapter 5 - AFFAIR OF HERSTAL

    Chapter 6 - RETURNS BY HANOVER; DOES NOT CALL ON HIS ROYAL UNCLE THERE.

    Chapter 7 - WITHDRAWS TO REINSBERG, HOPING A PEACEABLE WINTER

    Chapter 8 - THE KAISER`S DEATH

    Chapter 9 - RESOLUTION FORMED AT REINSBERG IN CONSEQUENCE

FIRST SILESIAN WAR, AWAKENING A GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE, BEGINS - Chapter 1 - OF SCHLESIEN, OR SILESIA

    Chapter 2 - FRIEDRICH MARCHES ON GLOGAU

    Chapter 3 - PROBLEM OF GLOGAU

    Chapter 4 - BRESLAU UNDER SOFT PRESSURE

    Chapter 5 - FRIEDRICH PUSHES FORWARD TOWARDS BRIEG AND NEISSE

    Chapter 6 - NEISSE IS BOMBARDED

    Chapter 7 - AT VERSAILLES, THE MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY CHANGES HIS SHIRT, AND BELLEISLE IS SEEN WITH PAPERS.

    Chapter 8 - PHENOMENA IN PETERSBURG

    Chapter 9 - FRIEDRICH RETURNS TO SILESIA.

    Chapter 10 - BATTLE OF MOLLWITZ

    Chapter 11 - THE BURSTING FORTH OF BEDLAMS: BELLEISLE AND THE BREAKERS OF PRAGMATIC SANCTION.

    Chapter 12 - SORROWS OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY

    Chapter 13 - SMALL-WAR: FIRST EMERGENCE OF ZIETHEN THE HUSSAR GENERAL INTO NOTICE.

FIRST SILESIAN WAR, LEAVING THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE ABLAZE ALL ROUND, GETS ENDED - Chapter 1 - BRITANNIC MAJESTY AS PALADIN OF THE PRAGMATIC

    Chapter 2 - CAMP OF STREHLEN

    Chapter 3 - GRAND REVIEW AT STREHLEN: NEIPPERG TAKES AIM AT BRESLAU, BUT ANOTHER HITS IT

    Chapter 4 - FRIEDRICH TAKES THE FIELD AGAIN, INTENT ON HAVING NEISSE.

    Chapter 5 - KLEIN-SCHNELLENDORF: FRIEDRICH GETS NEISSE, IN A FASHION

    Chapter 6 - NEW MAYOR OF LANDSHUT MAKES AN INSTALLATION SPEECH

    Chapter 7 - FRIEDRICH PURPOSES TO MEND THE KLEIN-SCHNELLENDORF FAILURE: FORTUNES OF THE BELLEISLE ARMAMENT

    Chapter 8 - FRIEDRICH STARTS FOR MORAVIA, ON A NEW SCHEME HE HAS

    Chapter 9 - WILHELMINA GOES TO SEE THE GAYETIES AT FRANKFURT

    Chapter 10 - FRIEDRICH DOES HIS MORAVIAN EXPEDITION WHICH PROVES A MERE MORAVIAN FORAY

    Chapter 11 - NUSSLER IN NEISSE, WITH THE OLD DESSAUER AND WALRAVE

    Chapter 12 - PRINCE KARL DOES COME ON

    Chapter 13 - BATTLE OF CHOTUSITZ

    Chapter 14 - PEACE OF BRESLAU

THE SURROUNDING EUROPEAN WAR DOES NOT END - Chapter 1 - FRIEDRICH RESUMES HIS PEACEABLE PURSUITS

    Chapter 2 - AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS ARE ON THE MOUNTING HAND

    Chapter 3 - CARNIVAL PHENOMENA IN WAR-TIME.

    Chapter 4 - AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS MOUNT TO A DANGEROUS HEIGHT

    Chapter 5 - BRITANNIC MAJESTY FIGHTS HIS BATTLE OF DETTINGEN; AND BECOMES SUPREME JOVE OF GERMANY, IN A MANNER

    Chapter 6 - VOLTAIRE VISITS FRIEDRICH FOR THE FOURTH TIME

    Chapter 7 - FRIEDRICH MAKES TREATY WITH FRANCE; AND SILENTLY GETS READY

    Chapter 8 - PERFECT PEACE AT BERLIN, WAR ALL ROUND

SECOND SILESIAN WAR, IMPORTANT EPISODE IN THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE - Chapter 1 - PRELIMINARY: HOW THE MOMENT ARRIVED

    Chapter 2 - FRIEDRICH MARCHES UPON PRAG, CAPTURES PRAG

    Chapter 3 - FRIEDRICH, DILIGENT IN HIS BOHEMIAN CONQUESTS, UNEXPECTEDLY        COMES UPON PRINCE KARL, WITH NO FRENCH ATTENDING HIM

    Chapter 4 - FRIEDRICH REDUCED TO STRAlTS; CANNOT MAINTAIN HIS MOLDAU CONQUESTS AGAINST PRICE KARL

    Chapter 5 - FRIEDRICH, UNDER DIFFICULTIES, PREPARES FOR A NEW CAMPAIGN

    Chapter 6 - VALORI GOES ON AN ELECTIONEERING MISSION TO DRESDEN

    Chapter 7 - FRIEDRICH IN SILESIA; UNUSUALLY BUSY

    Chapter 8 - THE MARTIAL BOY AND HIS ENGLISH versus THE LAWS 0F NATURE

    Chapter 9 - THE AUSTRIAN-SAXON ARMY INVADES SILESIA, ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS

    Chapter 10 - BATTLE OF HOHENFRIEDBERG

    Chapter 11 - CAMP OF CHLUM: FRIEDRICH CANNOT ACHIEVE PEACE

    Chapter 12 - BATTLE OF SOHR

    Chapter 13 - SAXONY AND AUSTRIA MAKE A SURPRISING LAST ATTEMPT

    Chapter 14 - BATTLE OF KESSELSDORF

    Chapter 15 - PEACE OF DRESDEN: FRIEDRICH DOES MARCH HOME

THE TEN YEARS OF PEACE - Chapter 1 - SANS-SOUCI

    Chapter 2 - PEEP AT VOLTAIRE AND HIS DIVINE EMILIE (BY CANDLELIGHT) IN THE TIDE OF EVENTS

    Chapter 3 - EUROPEAN WAR FALLS DONE: TREATY OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE

    Chapter 4 - COCCEJI FINISHES THE LAW-REFORM; FRIEDRICH IS PRINTING HIS POESIES

    chapter 5 - STRANGERS OF NOTE COME TO BERLIN, IN 1750

    Chapter 6 - BERLIN CARROUSEL, AND VOLTAIRE VISIBLE THERE

    Chapter 7 - M. DE VOLTAIRE HAS A PAINFUL JEW-LAWSUIT

    Chapter 8 - OST-FRIESLAND AND THE SHIPPING INTERESTS

    Chapter 9 - SECOND ACT 0F TEE VOLTAIRE VISIT

    Chapter 10 - DEMON NEWSWRITER, OF 1752

    Chapter 11 - THIRD ACT AND CATASTROPHE OF THE VOLTAIRE VISIT

    Chapter 12 - OF THE AFTERPIECE, WHICH PROVED STILL MORE TRAGICAL

    Chapter 13 - ROMISH-KING QUESTION; ENGLISH-PRIVATEER QUESTION

    Chapter 14 - THERE IS LIKE TO BE ANOTHER WAR AHEAD

    Chapter 15 - ANTI-PRUSSIAN WAR-SYMPTOMS: FRIEDRICH VISIBLE FOR A MOMENT

THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR: FIRST CAMPAIGN - Chapter 1 - WHAT FRIEDRICH HAD READ IN THE MENZEL DOCUMENTS

    Chapter 2 - ENGLISH DIPLOMACIES ABROAD, IN PROSPECT OF A FRENCH WAR

    Chapter 3 - FRENCH-ENGLISH WAR BREAKS OUT

    Chapter 4 - FRIEDRICH PUTS A QUESTION AT VIENNA, TWICE OVER

    Chapter 5 - FRIEDRICH BLOCKADES THE SAXONS IN PIRNA COUNTRY

    Chapter 6 - BATTLE OF LOBOSITZ

    Chapter 7 - THE SAXONS GET OUT OF PIRNA ON DISMAL TERMS

    Chapter 8 - WINTER IN DRESDEN

SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT - Chapter 1 - THE CAMPAIGN OPENS

    Chapter 2 - BATTLE OF PRAG

    Chapter 3 - PRAG CANNOT BE GOT AT ONCE.

    Chapter 4 - BATTLE OF KOLIN

    Chapter 5 - FRIEDRICH AT LEITMERITZ, HIS WORLD OF ENEMIES COMING ON

    Chapter 6 - DEATH OF WINTERFELD

    Chapter 7 - FRIEDRICH IN THURINGEN, HIS WORLD OF ENEMIES ALL COME

    Chapter 8 - BATTLE OF ROSSBACH

    Chapter 9 - FRIEDRICH MARCHES FOR SILESIA

    Chapter 10 - BATTLE OF LEUTHEN

    Chapter 11 - WINTER IN BRESLAU: THIRD CAMPAIGN OPENS

    Chapter 12 - SIEGE OF OLMUTZ

    Chapter 13 - BATTLE OF ZORNDORF

    Chapter 14 - BATTLE OF HOCHKIRCH

FRIEDRICH LIKE TO BE OVERWHELMED IN THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR - Chapter 1 - PRELIMINARIES TO A FOURTH CAMPAIGN

    Chapter 2 - GENERAL DOHNA; DICTATOR WEDELL: BATTLE OF ZULLICHAU

    Chapter 3 - FRIEDRICH IN PERSON ATTEMPTS THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM; NOT WITH SUCCESS

    Chapter 4 - BATTLE OF KUNERSDORF

    Chapter 5 - SAXONY WITHOUT DEFENCE: SCHMETTAU SURRENDERS DRESDEN

    Chapter 6 - PRINCE HENRI MAKES A MARCH OF FIFTY HOURS; THE RUSSIANS CANNOT FIND LODGING IN SILESIA

    Chapter 7 - FRIEDRICH REAPPEARS ON THE FIELD, AND IN SEVEN DAYS AFTER COMES THE CATASTROPHE OF MAXEN

    Chapter 8 - MISCELLANEA IN WINTER-QUARTERS, 1759-1760

    Chapter 9 - PRELIMINARIES TO A FIFTH CAMPAIGN

FRIEDRICH IS NOT TO BE OVERWHELMED: THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR GRADUALLY ENDS - Chapter 1 - FIFTH CAMPAIGN OPENS

    Chapter 2 - FRIEDRICH BESIEGES DRESDEN

    Chapter 3 - BATTLE OF LIEGNITZ

    Chapter 4 - DAUN IN WRESTLE WITH FRIEDRICH IN THE SILESIAN HILLS

    Chapter 5 - BATTLE OF TORGAU

    Chapter 6 - WINTER-QUARTERS 1760-1761

    Chapter 7 - SIXTH CAMPAIGN OPENS: CAMP OF BUNZELWITZ

    Chapter 8 - LOUDON POUNCES UPON SCHWEIDNITZ ONE NIGHT (LAST OF SEPTEMBER, 1761).

    Chapter 9 - TRAITOR WARKOTSCH

    Chapter 10 - FRIEDRICH IN BRESLAU; HAS NEWS FROM PETERSBURG

    Chapter 11 - SEVENTH CAMPAIGN OPENS

    Chapter 12 - SIEGE OF SCHWEIDNITZ: SEVENTH CAMPAIGN ENDS

    Chapter 13 - PEACE OF HUBERTSBURG

AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF FRIEDRICH`S LIFE - Chapter 1 - PREFATORY

    Chapter 2 - REPAIRING OF A RUINED PRUSSIA

    Chapter 3 - TROUBLES IN POLAND.

    Chapter 4 - PARTITION OF POLAND

    Chapter 5 - A CHAPTER OF MISCELLANIES

    Chapter 6 - THE BAVARIAN WAR

    Chapter 7 - MILLER ARNOLD`S LAWSUIT

    Chapter 8 - THE FURSTENBUND: FRIEDRICH`S LAST YEARS

    Chapter 9 - FRIEDRICH`S LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH

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