History of Friedrich II of Prussia (All 21 Volumes)

History of Friedrich II of Prussia (All 21 Volumes)
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great was a biography of Friedrich II of Prussia written by Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle. Frederick II was a Prussian king and military leader who ruled the Kingdom of Prussia from 1740 until 1786, reigning longer than any other Hohenzollern king. The work is made up of 21 books and an appendix. Table of Contents: Book I: Birth and Parentage (1712) Book II: Of Brandenburg and the Hohenzollerns (928 – 1417) Book III: The Hohenzollerns in Brandenburg (1412 – 1718) Book IV: Friedrich's Apprenticeship, First Stage (1713 – 1728) Book V: Double-Marriage Project, and What Element It Fell Into (1723 – 1726) Book VI: Double-Marriage Project, and Crown-Prince, Going Adrift Under the Storm-Winds (1727 – 1730) Book VII: Fearful Shipwreck of the Double-Marriage Project (February – November 1730) Book VIII: Crown-Prince Retrieved: Life at Custrin (November 1730 – February 1732) Book IX: Last Stage of Friedrich's Apprenticeship: Life in Ruppin (1732 – 1736) Book X: At Rheinsberg (1736 – 1740) Book XI: Friedrich Takes the Reins in Hand (June – December 1740) Book XII: First Silesian War, Awakening a General European One, Begins (December 1740 – May 1741) Book XIII: First Silesian War, Leaving the General European One Ablaze All Round, Gets Ended (May 1741 – July 1742) Book XIV: The Surrounding European War Does Not End (August 1742 – July 1744) Book XV: Second Silesian War, Important Episode in the General European One (15 August 1744 – 25 December 1745) Book XVI: The Ten Years of Peace (1746 – 1756) Book XVII: The Seven-Years War: First Campaign (1756 – 1757) Book XVIII: Seven-Years War Rises to a Height (1757 – 1759) Book XIX: Friedrich Like to Be Overwhelmed in the Seven-Years War (1759 – 1760) Book XX: Friedrich is Not to Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends (25 April 1760 – 15 February 1763) Book XXI: Afternoon and Evening of Friedrich's Life (1763 – 1786) Appendix

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Томас Карлейль. History of Friedrich II of Prussia (All 21 Volumes)

History of Friedrich II of Prussia (All 21 Volumes)

Table of Contents

Volume 01

Book I. — BIRTH AND PARENTAGE. — 1712

Chapter I. — PROEM: FRIEDRICH'S HISTORY FROM THE DISTANCE WE ARE AT

1. FRIEDRICH THEN, AND FRIEDRICH NOW

2. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

3. ENGLISH PREPOSSESSIONS

4. ENCOURAGEMENTS, DISCOURAGEMENTS

Chapter II. — FRIEDRICH'S BIRTH

Chapter III. — FATHER AND MOTHER: THE HANOVERIAN CONNECTION

Chapter IV. — FATHER'S MOTHER

Chapter V. — KING FRIEDRICH I

Volume 02

BOOK II. — OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS. - 928–1417

Chapter I. — BRANNIBOR: HENRY THE FOWLER

Chapter II. — PREUSSEN: SAINT ADALBERT

Chapter III. — MARKGRAVES OF BRANDENBURG

END OF THE FIRST SHADOWY LINE

SECOND SHADOWY LINE

SUBSTANTIAL MARKGRAVES: GLIMPSE OF THE CONTEMPORARY KAISERS

Chapter IV. — ALBERT THE BEAR

Chapter V. — CONRAD OF HOHENZOLLERN; AND KAISER BARBAROSSA

CONRAD HAS BECOME BURGGRAF OF NURNBERG (A.D. 1170)

OF THE HOHENZOLLERN BURGGRAVES GENERALLY

Chapter VI. — THE TEUTSCH RITTERS OR TEUTONIC ORDER

HEAD OF TEUTSCH ORDER MOVES TO VENICE

TEUTSCH ORDER ITSELF GOES TO PREUSSEN

THE STUFF TEUTSCH RITTERS WERE MADE OF. CONRAD OF THURINGEN: SAINT ELIZABETH; TOWN OF MARBURG

Chapter VII. — MARGRAVIATE OF CULMBACH: BAIREUTH, ANSPACH

BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH III.; AND THE ANARCHY OF NINETEEN YEARS

KAISER RUDOLF AND BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH III

Chapter VIII. — ASCANIER MARKGRAVES IN BRANDENBURG

OF BERLIN CITY

MARKGRAF OTTO IV., OR OTTO WITH THE ARROW

Chapter IX. — BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH IV

CONTESTED ELECTIONS IN THE REICH: KAISER ALBERT I.; AFTER WHOM SIX NON-HAPSBURG KAISERS

OF KAISER HENRY VII. AND THE LUXEMBURG KAISERS

HENRY'S SON JOHANN IS KING OF BOHEMIA; AND LUDWIG THE BAVARIAN, WITH A CONTESTED ELECTION, IS KAISER

Chapter X. — BRANDENBURG LAPSES TO THE KAISER

Chapter XI. — BAYARIAN KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG

A RESUSCITATED ASCANIER; THE FALSE WALDEMAR

MARGARET WITH THE POUCH-MOUTH

Chapter XII. — BRANDENBURG IN KAISER KARL'S TIME; END OF THE BAVARIAN KURFURSTS

END OF RESUSCITATED WALDEMAR; KURFURST LUDWIG SELLS OUT

SECOND, AND THEN THIRD AND LAST, OF THE BAVARIAN KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG

Chapter XIII. — LUXEMBURG KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG

Chapter XIV. — BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH VI

SIGISMUND IS KURFURST OF BRANDENBURG, BUT IS KING OF HUNGARY ALSO

COUSIN JOBST HAS BRANDENBURG IN PAWN

BRANDENBURG IN THE HANDS OF THE PAWNBROKERS; RUPERT OF THE PFALZ IS KAISER

SIGISMUND, WITH A STRUGGLE, BECOMES KAISER

BRANDENBURG IS PAWNED FOR THE LAST TIME

THE SEVEN INTERCALARY OR NON-HAPSBURG KAISERS

Volume 03

BOOK III. — THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. - 1412–1718

Chapter I. — KURFURST FRIEDRICH I

Chapter II. — MATINEES DU ROI DE PRUSSE

Chapter III. — KURFURST FRIEDRICH II

Chapter IV. — KURFURST ALBERT ACHILLES, AND HIS SUCCESSOR

JOHANN THE CICERO IS FOURTH KURFURST, AND LEAVES TWO NOTABLE SONS

Chapter V. — OF THE BAIREUTH-ANSPACH BRANCH

TWO LINES IN CULMBACH OR BAIREUTH-ANSPACH: THE GERA BOND OF 1598

THE ELDER LINE OF CULMBACH: FRIEDRICH AND HIS THREE NOTABLE SONS THERE

FRIEDRICH'S SECOND SON, MARGRAF GEORGE OF ANSPACH

Chapter VI. — HOCHMEISTER ALBERT, THIRD NOTABLE SON OF FRIEDRICH

Chapter VII. — ALBERT ALCIBIADES

Chapter VIII. — HISTORICAL MEANING OF THE REFORMATION

Chapter IX. — KURFURST JOACHIM I

Chapter X. — KURFURST JOACHIM II

JOACHIM GETS CO-INVESTMENT IN PREUSSEN

JOACHIM MAKES "HERITAGE-BROTHERHOOD" WITH THE DUKE OF LIEGNITZ

Chapter XI. — SEVENTH KURFURST, JOHANN GEORGE

Chapter XII. — OF ALBERT FRIEDRICH, THE SECOND DUKE OF PREUSSEN

OF DUKE ALBERT FRIEDRICH'S MARRIAGE: WHO HIS WIFE WAS, AND WHAT HER POSSIBLE DOWRY

MARGRAF GEORGE FRIEDRICH COMES TO PREUSSEN TO ADMINISTER

Chapter XIII. — NINTH KURFURST, JOHANN SIGISMUND

HOW THE CLEVE HERITAGE DROPPED, AND MANY SPRANG TO PICK IT UP

THE KAISER'S THOUGHTS ABOUT IT, AND THE WORLD'S

Chapter XIV. — SYMPTOMS OF A GREAT WAR COMING

FIRST SYMPTOM; DONAUWORTH, 1608

SYMPTOM THIRD: A DINNER-SCENE AT DUSSELDORF, 1613: SPANIARDS AND DUTCH SHOULDER ARMS IN CLEVE

SYMPTOM FOURTH, AND CATASTROPHE UPON THE HEELS OF IT

WHAT BECAME OF THE CLEVE-JULICH HERITAGE, AND OF THE PREUSSEN ONE

Chapter XV. — TENTH KURFURST, GEORGE WILHELM

Chapter XVI. — THIRTY-YEARS WAR

SECOND ACT, OR EPOCH, 1624–1629. A SECOND UNCLE PUT TO THE BAN, AND POMMERN SNATCHED AWAY

THIRD ACT, AND WHAT THE KURFURST SUFFERED IN IT

Chapter XVII. — DUCHY OF JAGERNDORF

DUKE OF JAGERNDORF, ELECTOR'S UNCLE, IS PUT UNDER BAN

Chapter XVIII. — FRIEDRICH WILHELM, THE GREAT KURFURST, ELEVENTH OF THE SERIES

WHAT BECAME OF POMMERN AT THE PEACE; FINAL GLANCE INTO CLEVE-JULICH

THE GREAT KURFURST'S WARS: WHAT HE ACHIEVED IN WAR AND PEACE

Chapter XIX. — KING FRIEDRICH I. AGAIN

HOW AUSTRIA SETTLED THE SILESIAN CLAIMS

HIS REAL CHARACTER

Chapter XX. — DEATH OF KING FRIEDRICH I

THE TWELVE HOHENZOLLERN ELECTORS

GENEALOGICAL DIAGRAM: THE TWO CULMBACH LINES

3d KURFURST (1471–1486) ALBERT ACHILLES. ELDER CULMBACH LINE

Volume 04

BOOK IV. — FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP, FIRST STAGE. - 1713–1728

CHAPTER I. — CHILDHOOD: DOUBLE EDUCATIONAL ELEMENT

FIRST EDUCATIONAL ELEMENT, THE FRENCH ONE

Chapter II. — THE GERMAN ELEMENT

OF THE DESSAUER, NOT YET "OLD."

Chapter III. — FRIEDRICH WILHELM IS KING

Chapter IV. — HIS MAJESTY'S WAYS

Chapter V. — FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S ONE WAR

THE DEVIL IN HARNESS: CREUTZ THE FINANCE-MINISTER

Chapter VI. — THE LITTLE DRUMMER

Chapter VII. — TRANSIT OF CZAR PETER

Chapter VIII. — THE CROWN-PRINCE IS PUT TO HIS SCHOOLING

Chapter IX. — WUSTERHAUSEN

Chapter X. — THE HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS

OF KUR-PFALZ KARL PHILIP: HOW HE GOT A WIFE LONG SINCE, AND DID FEATS IN THE WORLD

KARL PHILIP AND HIS HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS

FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S METHOD;—PROVES REMEDIAL IN HEIDELBERG

PRUSSIAN MAJESTY HAS DISPLEASED THE KAISER AND THE KING OF POLAND

Chapter XI. — ON THE CROWN-PRINCE'S PROGRESS IN HIS SCHOOLING

THE NOLTENIUS-AND-PANZENDORF DRILL-EXERCISE

Chapter XII. — CROWN-PRINCE FALLS INTO DISFAVOR WITH PAPA

Chapter XIII. — RESULTS OF THE CROWN-PRINCE'S SCHOOLING

Volume 05

BOOK V. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND WHAT ELEMENT IT FELL INTO. — 1723–1726

Chapter I. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE IS DECIDED ON

QUEEN SOPHIE DOROTHEE HAS TAKEN TIME BY THE FORELOCK

PRINCESS AMELIA COMES INTO THE WORLD

FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S TEN CHILDREN

Marriage to Sophie Dorothee, 28th November, 1706

Chapter II. — A KAISER HUNTING SHADOWS

IMPERIAL MAJESTY ON THE TREATY OF UTRECHT

IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAS GOT HAPPILY WEDDED

IMPERIAL MAJESTY AND THE TERMAGANT OF SPAIN

IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S PRAGMATIC SANCTION

THIRD SHADOW: IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S OSTEND COMPANY

Chapter III. — THE SEVEN CRISES OR EUROPEAN TRAVAIL-THROES

CONGRESS OF CAMBRAI

CONGRESS OF CAMBRAI GETS THE FLOOR PULLED FROM UNDER IT

FRANCE AND THE BRITANNIC MAJESTY TRIM THE SHIP AGAIN: HOW FRIEDRICH WILHELM CAME INTO IT. TREATY OF HANOVER, 1725

TRAVAIL-THROES OF NATURE FOR BABY CARLOS'S ITALIAN APANAGE; SEVEN IN NUMBER

Chapter IV. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE TREATY CANNOT BE SIGNED

Chapter V. — CROWN-PRINCE GOES INTO THE POTSDAM GUARDS

OF THE POTSDAM GIANTS, AS A FACT

FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S RECRUITING DIFFICULTIES

QUEEN SOPHIE'S TROUBLES: GRUMKOW WITH THE OLD DESSAUER, AND GRUMKOW WITHOUT HIM

Chapter VI. — ORDNANCE-MASTER SECKENDORF CROSSES THE PALACE ESPLANADE

Chapter VII. — TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT

OF GUNDLING, AND THE LITERARY MEN IN TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT

Chapter VIII. — SECKENDORF'S RETORT TO HER MAJESTY

Volume 06

BOOK VI. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND CROWN-PRINCE, GOING ADRIFT UNDER THE STORM-WINDS. — 1727–1730

Chapter I. — FIFTH CRISIS IN THE KAISER'S SPECTRE-HUNT

CROWN-PRINCE SEEN IN DRYASDUST'S GLASS, DARKLY

Chapter II. — DEATH OF GEORGE I

HIS PRUSSIAN MAJESTY FALLS INTO ONE OF HIS HYPOCHONDRIACAL FITS

Chapter III. — VISIT TO DRESDEN

THE PHYSICALLY STRONG PAYS HIS COUNTER-VISIT

OF PRINCESS WHILHELMINA'S FOUR KINGS AND OTHER INEFFECTUAL SUITORS

Chapter IV. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT IS NOT DEAD

CROWN-PRINCE FRIEDRICH WRITES CERTAIN LETTERS

DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT RE-EMERGES IN AN OFFICIAL SHAPE

HIS MAJESTY SLAUGHTERS 3,602 HEAD OF WILD SWINE

FALLS ILL, IN CONSEQUENCE; AND THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE CANNOT GET FORWARD

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

Chapter VI. — IMMINENCY OF WAR OR DUEL BETWEEN THE BRITANNIC AND PRUSSIAN MAJESTIES

CAUSE FIRST: THE HANOVER JOINT-HERITAGES, WHICH ARE NOT IN A LIQUID STATE

CAUSE SECOND: THE TROUBLES OF MECKLENBURG

CAUSES THIRD AND FOURTH:—AND CAUSE FIFTH, WORTH ALL THE OTHERS

TROUBLES OF MECKLENBURG, FOR THE LAST TIME

ONE NUSSLER SETTLES THE AHLDEN HERITAGES; SENDS THE MONEY HOME IN BOXES

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

CROWN-PRINCE'S DOMESTICITIES SEEN IN A FLASH OF LIGHTNING

Chapter VIII. — CROWN-PRINCE GETTING BEYOND HIS DEPTH IN TROUBLE

Chapter IX. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE SHALL BE OR SHALL NOT BE

WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS FIRST: ENGLAND SHALL SAY YES OR SAY NO

DUBOURGAY STRIKES A LIGHT FOR THE ENGLISH COURT

WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS SECOND: ENGLAND SHALL HAVE SAID NO

WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS THIRD: MAJESTY HIMSELF WILL CHOOSE, THEN

HOW FRIEDRICH PRINCE OF BAIREUTH CAME TO BE THE MAN, AFTER ALL

DOUBLE-MARRIAGE, ON THE EDGE OF SHIPWRECK, FLIES OFF A KIND OF CARRIER-PIGEON, OR NOAH'S-DOVE, TO ENGLAND, WITH CRY FOR HELP

Volume 07

BOOK VII. — FEARFUL SHIPWRECK OF THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT. — Feb.-Nov., 1730

Chapter I. — ENGLAND SENDS THE EXCELLENCY HOTHAM TO BERLIN

MAJESTY AND CROWN-PRINCE WITH HIM MAKE A RUN TO DRESDEN

HOW VILLA WAS RECEIVED IN ENGLAND

EXCELLENCY HOTHAM ARRIVES IN BERLIN

Chapter II. — LANGUAGE OF BIRDS: EXCELLENCY HOTHAM PROVES UNAVAILING

A PEEP INTO THE NOSTI-GRUMKOW CORRESPONDENCE CAUGHT UP IN ST. MARY AXE

THE HOTHAM DESPATCHES

HIS MAJESTY GETS SIGHT OF THE ST.-MARY-AXE DOCUMENTS; BUT NOTHING FOLLOWS FROM IT

ST. PETER'S CHURCH IN BERLIN HAS AN ACCIDENT

Chapter III. — CAMP OF RADEWITZ

Chapter IV. — EXCELLENCY HOTHAM QUITS BERLIN IN HASTE

Chapter V. — JOURNEY TO THE REICH

Chapter VI. — JOURNEY HOMEWARDS FROM THE REICH; CATASTROPHE ON JOURNEY HOMEWARDS

CATASTROPHE ON JOURNEY HOMEWARDS

Chapter VII. — CATASTROPHE, AND MAJESTY, ARRIVE IN BERLIN

SCENE AT BERLIN ON MAJESTY'S ARRIVAL

Chapter VIII. — SEQUEL TO CROWN-PRINCE AND FRIENDS

Chapter IX. — COURT-MARTIAL ON CROWN-PRINCE AND CONSORTS

CROWN-PRINCE IN CUSTRIN

SENTENCE OF COURT-MARTIAL

KATTE'S END, 6th NOVEMBER, 1780

Volume 08

BOOK VIII. — CROWN-PRINCE REPRIEVED: LIFE AT CUSTRIN—November, 1730-February, 1732

Chapter I. — CHAPLAIN MULLER WAITS ON THE CROWN-PRINCE

Chapter II. — CROWN-PRINCE TO REPENT AND NOT PERISH

CROWN-PRINCE BEGINS A NEW COURSE

Chapter III. — WILHELMINA IS TO WED THE PRINCE OF BAIREUTH

Chapter IV. — CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN PREUSSEN AND ELSEWHERE

CASE OF SCHLUBHUT

CASE OF THE CRIMINAL-COLLEGIUM ITSELF

SKIPPER JENKINS IN THE GULF OF FLORIDA

BABY CARLOS GETS HIS APANAGE

Chapter V. — INTERVIEW OF MAJESTY AND CROWN-PRINCE AT CUSTRIN

GRUMKOW'S "PROTOKOLL" OF THE 15th AUGUST, 1731; OR SUMMARY OF WHAT TOOK PLACE AT CUSTRIN THAT DAY

SCHULENBURG'S THREE LETTERS TO GRUMKOW, ON VISITS TO THE CROWN-PRINCE, DURING THE CUSTRIN TIME

HIS MAJESTY'S BUILDING OPERATIONS

Chapter VI. — WILHELMINA'S WEDDING

Volume 09

BOOK IX. — LAST STAGE OF FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP: LIFE IN RUPPIN. — 1732–1736

Chapter I. — PRINCESS ELIZABETH CHRISTINA OF BRUNSWICK-BEVERN

WHO HIS MAJESTY'S CHOICE IS; AND WHAT THE CROWN-PRINCE THINKS OF IT

DUKE OF LORRAINE ARRIVES IN POTSDAM AND IN BERLIN

BETROTHAL OF THE CROWN-PRINCE TO THE BRUNSWICK CHARMER, NIECE OF IMPERIAL MAJESTY, MONDAY EVENING, 10th MARCH, 1732

Chapter II. — SMALL INCIDENTS AT RUPPIN

Chapter III. — THE SALZBURGERS

Chapter IV. — PRUSSIAN MAJESTY VISITS THE KAISER

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

SESSION OF TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT, 6th DECEMBER, 1732

Chapter VI. — KING AUGUST MEDITATING GREAT THINGS FOR POLAND

Chapter VII. — CROWN-PRINCE'S MARRIAGE

Chapter VIII. — KING AUGUST DIES; AND POLAND TAKES FIRE

POLAND HAS TO FIND A NEW KING

OF THE CANDIDATES; OF THE CONDITIONS. HOW THE ELECTION WENT

POLAND ON FIRE; DANTZIG STANDS SIEGE

Chapter IX. — KAISER'S SHADOW-HUNT HAS CAUGHT FIRE

SUBSEQUENT COURSE OF THE WAR, IN THE ITALIAN PART OF IT

COURSE OF THE WAR, IN THE GERMAN PART OF IT

Chapter X. — CROWN-PRINCE GOES TO THE RHINE CAMPAIGN

GLIMPSE OF LIEUTENANT CHASOT, AND OF OTHER ACQUISITIONS

CROWN-PRINCE'S VISIT TO BAIREUTH ON THE WAY HOME

Chapter XI. — IN PAPA'S SICK-ROOM; PRUSSIAN INSPECTIONS: END OF WAR

Volume 10

BOOK X. — AT REINSBERG. - 1736–1740

Chapter I. — MANSION OF REINSBERG

OF MONSIEUR JORDAN AND THE LITERARY SET

Chapter II. — OF VOLTAIRE AND THE LITERARY CORRESPONDENCES

Chapter III. — CROWN-PRINCE MAKES A MORNING CALL

Chapter IV. — NEWS OF THE DAY

OF BERG AND JULICH AGAIN; AND OF LUISCIUS WITH THE ONE RAZOR

Summary is, these Mediating Powers will be of no help to his Majesty;

Chapter V. — VISIT AT LOO

CROWN-PRINCE BECOMES A FREEMASON; AND IS HARANGUED BY MONSIEUR DE BIELFELD

SECKENDORF GETS LODGED IN GRATZ

THE EAR OF JENKINS RE-EMERGES

Chapter VI. — LAST YEAR OF REINSBERG; JOURNEY TO PREUSSEN

PINE'S HORACE; AND THE ANTI-MACHIAVEL

FRIEDRICH IN PREUSSEN AGAIN; AT THE STUD OF TRAKEHNEN. A TRAGICALLY GREAT EVENT COMING ON

Chapter VII. — LAST YEAR OF REINSBERG: TRANSIT OF BALTIMORE AND OTHER PERSONS AND THINGS

BIELFELD, WHAT HE SAW AT REINSBERG AND AROUND

TURK WAR ENDS; SPANISH WAR BEGINS. A WEDDING IN PETERSBURG

Chapter VIII. — DEATH OF FRIEDRICH WILHELM

Volume 11

BOOK XI. — FRIEDRICH TAKES THE REINS IN HAND. — June-December, 1740

Chapter I. — PHENOMENA OF FRIEDRICH'S ACCESSION

FRIEDRICH WILL MAKE MEN HAPPY: CORN-MAGAZINES

ABOLITION OF LEGAL TORTURE

WILL HAVE PHILOSOPHERS ABOUT HIM, AND A REAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

AND EVERY ONE SHALL GET TO HEAVEN IN HIS OWN WAY

FREE PRESS, AND NEWSPAPERS THE BEST INSTRUCTORS

INTENDS TO BE PRACTICAL WITHAL, AND EVERY INCH A KING

BEHAVIOR TO HIS MOTHER; TO HIS WIFE

NO CHANGE IN HIS FATHER'S METHODS OR MINISTRIES

Chapter II. — THE HOMAGINGS

FRIEDRICH ACCEPTS THE HOMAGES, PERSONALLY, IN THREE PLACES

Chapter III. — FRIEDRICH MAKES AN EXCURSION, NOT OF DIRECT SORT INTO THE CLEVE COUNTRIES

FRIEDRICH STRIKES OFF TO THE LEFT, AND HAS A VIEW OF STRASBURG FOR TWO DAYS

FRIEDRICH FINDS M. DE MAUPERTUIS; NOT YET M. DE VOLTAIRE

Chapter IV. — VOLTAIRE'S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH FRIEDRICH

PARTICULARS OF FIRST INTERVIEW, ON SEVERE SCRUTINY

WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF THE INTERVIEW TWENTY YEARS AFTERWARDS

WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF THE INTERVIEW AT THE TIME

Chapter V. — AFFAIR OF HERSTAL

HOW THE HERSTALLERS HAD BEHAVED TO FRIEDRICH WILHELM

FRIEDRICH TAKES THE ROD OUT OF PICKLE

WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF HERSTAL

Chapter VI. — RETURNS BY HANOVER; DOES NOT CALL ON HIS ROYAL UNCLE THERE

Chapter VII. — WITHDRAWS TO REINSBERG, HOPING A PEACEABLE WINTER

WILHELMINA'S RETURN-VISIT

UNEXPECTED NEWS AT REINSBERG

Chapter VIII. — THE KAISER'S DEATH

Chapter IX. — RESOLUTION FORMED AT REINSBERG IN CONSEQUENCE

MYSTERY IN BERLIN, FOR SEVEN WEEKS, WHILE THE PREPARATIONS GO ON; VOLTAIRE VISITS FRIEDRICH TO DECIPHER IT, BUT CANNOT

VIEW OF FRIEDRICH BEHIND THE VEIL

EXCELLENCY BOTTA HAS AUDIENCE; THEN EXCELLENCY DICKENS, AND OTHERS: DECEMBER 6th, THE MYSTERY IS OUT

MASKED BALL, AT BERLIN, 12th-13th DECEMBER

Volume 12

BOOK XII. — FIRST SILESIAN WAR, AWAKENING A GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE, BEGINS. — December, 1740-May, 1741

Chapter I. — OF SCHLESIEN, OR SILESIA

HISTORICAL EPOCHS OF SCHLESIEN;—AFTER THE QUADS AND MARCHMEN

Chapter II. — FRIEDRICH MARCHES ON GLOGAU

FRIEDRICH AT CROSSEN, AND STILL IN HIS OWN TERRITORY, 14th-16th DECEMBER;—STEPS INTO SCHLESIEN

WHAT GLOGAU, AND THE GOVERNMENT AT BRESLAU, DID UPON IT

MARCH TO WEICHAU (SATURDAY, 17th, AND STAY SUNDAY THERE); TO MILKAU (MONDAY, 19th); GET TO HERRENDORF, WITHIN SIGHT OF GLOGAU, DECEMBER 22d

Chapter III. — PROBLEM OF GLOGAU

WHAT BERLIN IS SAYING; WHAT FRIEDRICH IS THINKING

JORDAN TO THE KING (successively from Berlin—somewhat abridged.)

SCHWERIN AT LIEGNITZ; FRIEDRICH HUSHES UP THE GLOGAU PROBLEM, AND STARTS WITH HIS BEST SPEED FOR BRESLAU

Chapter IV. — BRESLAU UNDER SOFT PRESSURE

KING ENTERS BRESLAW; STAYS THERE, GRACIOUS AND VIGILANT, FOUR DAYS (Jan. 2d-6th, 1741)

Chapter V. — FRIEDRICH PUSHES FORWARD TOWARDS BRIEG AND NEISSE

FRIEDRICH COMES ACROSS TO OTTMACHAU; SITS THERE, IN SURVEY OF NEISSE, TILL HIS CANNON COME

Chapter VI. — NEISSE IS BOMBARDED

BROWNE VANISHES IN A SLIGHT FLASH OF FIRE

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

OF BELLEISLE AND HIS PLANS

Chapter VIII. — PHENOMENA IN PETERSBURG

Chapter IX. — FRIEDRICH RETURNS TO SILESIA

SKIRMISH OF BAUMGARTEN, 27th FEBRUARY, 1741

ASPECTS OF BRESLAU

AUSTRIA IS STANDING TO ARMS

THE YOUNG DESSAUER CAPTURES GLOGAU (MARCH 9th); THE OLD DESSAUER, BY HIS CAMP OF GOTTIN (APRIL 2d), CHECKMATES CERTAIN DESIGNING PERSONS

FRIEDRICH TAKES THE FIELD, WITH SOME POMP; GOES INTO THE MOUNTAINS—BUT COMES FAST BACK

Chapter X. — BATTLE OF MOLLWITZ

OF FRIEDRICH'S DISAPPEARANCE INTO FAIRYLAND, IN THE INTERIM; AND OF MAUPERTUIS'S SIMILAR ADVENTURE

Chapter XI. — THE BURSTING FORTH OF BEDLAMS: BELLEISLE AND THE BREAKERS OF PRAGMATIC SANCTION

WHO WAS TO BLAME FOR THE AUSTRIAN-SUCCESSION WAR?

HOW BELLEISLE MADE VISIT TO TEUTSCHLAND; AND THERE WAS NO FIT HENRY THE FOWLER TO WELCOME HIM

DOWNBREAK OF PRAGMATIC SANCTION; MANNER OF THE CHIEF ARTISTS IN HANDLING THEIR COVENANTS

CONCERNING THE IMPERIAL ELECTION (Kaiserwahl) THAT IS TO BE: CANDIDATES FOR KAISERSHIP

TEUTSCHLAND TO BE CARVED INTO SOMETHING OF SYMMETRY, SHOULD THE BELLEISLE ENTERPRISES SUCCEED

BELLEISLE ON VISIT TO FRIEDRICH; SEES FRIEDRICH BESIEGE BRIEG, WITH EFFECT

Chapter XII. — SORROWS OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY

No. 1. SNATCH OF PARLIAMENTARY ELOQUENCE BY MR. VINER (19th April, 1741)

No. 2. CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORIAN ON THE PHENOMENON OF WALPOLE IN ENGLAND

No. 3. OF THE SPANISH WAR, OR THE JENKINS'S-EAR QUESTION

SUCCINCT HISTORY OF THE SPANISH WAR, WHICH BEGAN IN 1739; AND ENDED—WHEN DID IT END?

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

Volume 13

BOOK XIII. — FIRST SILESIAN WAR, LEAVING THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE ABLAZE ALL ROUND, GETS ENDED. — May, 1741-July, 1742

Chapter I. — BRITANNIC MAJESTY AS PALADIN OF THE PRAGMATIC

CUNCTATIONS, YET INCESSANT AND UBIQUITOUS ENDEAVORINGS, OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY (1741–1743)

Chapter II. — CAMP OF STREHLEN

EXCELLENCY HYNDFORD HAS HIS FIRST AUDIENCE (Camp of Mollwitz, May 7th);

EXCELLENCY ROBINSON BUSY IN THE VIENNA HOFRATH CIRCLES, TO PRODUCE A COMPLIANCE

EXCELLENCY ROBINSON HAS AUDIENCE OF FRIEDRICH (Camp of Strehlen, 7th August, 1741)

Chapter III. — GRAND REVIEW AT STREHLEN: NEIPPERG TAKES AIM AT BRESLAU, BUT ANOTHER HITS IT

Chapter IV. — FRIEDRICH TAKES THE FIELD AGAIN, INTENT ON HAVING NEISSE

Chapter V. — KLEIN-SCHNELLENDORF: FRIEDRICH GETS NEISSE, IN A FASHION

EXCELLENCY HYNDFORD BRINGS ABOUT A MEETING AT KLEIN-SCHNELLENDORF (9th October, 1741)

FRIEDRICH TAKES NEISSE BY SHAM SIEGE (CAPTURE NOT SHAM); GETS HOMAGED IN BRESLAU; AND RETURNS TO BERLIN

Chapter VI. — NEW MAYOR OF LANDSHUT MAKES AN INSTALLATION SPEECH

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

THE FRENCH SAFE IN PRAG; KAISERWAHL JUST COMING ON

BROGLIO HAS A BIVOUAC OF PISEK; KHEVENHULLER LOOKS IN UPON THE DONAU CONQUESTS

Chapter VIII. — FRIEDRICH STARTS FOR MORAVIA, ON A NEW SCHEME HE HAS

Chapter IX. — WILHELMINA GOES TO SEE THE GAYETIES AT FRANKFURT

WILHELMINA AT THE CORONATION

THE DUCHESS DOWAGER OF WURTEMBERG, RETURNING FROM BERLIN FAVORS US WITH ANOTHER VISIT

Chapter X. — FRIEDRICH DOES HIS MORAVIAN EXPEDITION WHICH PROVES A MERE MORAVIAN FORAY

IGLAU IS GOT, BUT NOT THE MAGAZINE AT IGLAU

THE SAXONS THINK IGLAU ENOUGH; THE FRENCH GO HOME

FRIEDRICH SUBMERGES THE MORAVIAN COUNTRIES; BUT CANNOT BRUNN, WHICH IS THE INDISPENSABLE POINT

THE SAXONS HAVE NO CANNON FOR BRUNN, CANNOT AFFORD ANY; THERE IS A HIGH RESOLUTION TAKEN AT VIENNA (February 25th): FRIEDRICH QUITS THE MORAVIAN ENTERPRISE

Chapter XI. —NUSSLER IN NEISSE, WITH THE OLD DESSAUER AND WALRAVE

HOW NUSSLER HAPPENED TO BE IN NEISSE, MAY, 1742

Chapter XII. — PRINCE KARL DOES COME ON

Chapter XIII. —BATTLE OF CHOTUSITZ

Chapter XIV. — PEACE OF BRESLAU

Volume 14

BOOK XIV.—THE SURROUNDING EUROPEAN WAR DOES NOT END.—August, 1742-July, 1744

Chapter I.—FRIEDRICH RESUMES HIS PEACEABLE PURSUITS

SETTLES THE SILESIAN BOUNDARIES, THE SILESIAN ARRANGEMENTS; WITH MANIFEST PROFIT TO SILESIA AND HIMSELF

OPENING OF THE OPERA-HOUSE AT BERLIN

FRIEDRICH TAKES THE WATERS AT AACHEN, WHERE VOLTAIRE COMES TO SEE HIM

Chapter II.—AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS ARE ON THE MOUNTING HAND

WAR-PHENOMENA IN THE WESTERN PARTS: KING GEORGE TRIES, A SECOND TIME, TO DRAW HIS SWORD; TUGS AT IT VIOLENTLY, FOR SEVEN MONTHS (February-October, 1742)

HOW DUC D'HARCOURT, ADVANCING TO REINFORCE THE ORIFLAMME, HAD TO SPLIT HIMSELF IN TWO; AND BECOME AN "ARMY OF BAVARIA," TO LITTLE EFFECT

HOW BELLEISLE, RETURNING FROM DRESDEN WITHOUT CO-OPERATION FOUND THE ATTACK HAD BEEN DONE—IN A FATALLY REVERSE WAY. PRAG EXPECTING SIEGE. COLLOQUY WITH BROGLIO ON THAT INTERESTING POINT. PRAG BESIEGED

CONCERNING THE ITALIAN WAR WHICH SIMULTANEOUSLY WENT ON, ALL ALONG

SCENE, ROADS OF CADIZ, October, 1741: BY WHAT ASTONISHING ARTIFICE THIS ITALIAN WAR DID, AT LENGTH, GET BEGUN

OTHER SCENE, BAY OF NAPLES, 19th-20th August, 1742: KING OF TWO SICILIES (BABY CARLOS THAT WAS), HAVING BEEN ASSISTING MAMMA, IS OBLIGED TO BECOME NEUTRAL IN THE ITALIAN WAR

THE SIEGE OF PRAG CONTIMES. A GRAND SALLY THERE

MAILLEBOIS MARCHES, WITH AN "ARMY OF REDEMPTION" OR "OF MATHURINS" (WITTILY SO CALLED), TO RELIEVE PRAG; REACHES THE BOHEMIAN FRONTIER, JOINED BY THE COMTE DE SAXE; ABOVE 50,000 STRONG (August 9th-September 19th)

PRINCE KARL AND THE GRAND-DUKE, HEARING OF MAILLEBOIS, GO TO MEET HIM (September 14th); AND THE SIEGE OF PRAG IS RAISED

THE MAILLEBOIS ARMY OF REDEMPTION CANNOT REDEEM AT ALL;—HAS TO STAGGER SOUTHWARD AGAIN; AND BECOMES AN "ARMY OF BAVARIA," UNDER BROGLIO

VOLTAIRE HAS BEEN ON VISIT AT AACHEN, IN THE INTERIM—HIS THIRD VISIT TO KING FRIEDRICH

THREE LETTERS OF VOLTAIRE, DATED BRUSSELS, 10th SEPT. 1742

Chapter III.—CARNIVAL PHENOMENA IN WAR-TIME

RETREAT FROM PRAG; ARMY OF THE ORIFLAMME, BOHEMIAN SECTION BOHEMIAN SECTION OF IT, MAKES EXIT

A GLANCE AT VIENNA, AND THEN AT BERLIN

VOLTAIRE, AT PARIS, IS MADE IMMORTAL BY A KISS

Chapter IV.—AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS MOUNT TO A DANGEROUS HEIGHT

BRITANNIC MAJESTY, WITH SWORD ACTUALLY DRAWN, HAS MARCHED MEANWHILE TO THE FRANKFURT COUNTRIES, AS "PRAGMATIC ARMY;" READY FOR BATTLE AND TREATY ALIKE

FRIEDRICH HAS OBJECTIONS TO THE PRAGMATIC ARMY; BUT IN VAIN. OF FRIEDRICH'S MANY ENDEAVORS TO QUENCH THIS WAR, BY "UNION OF INDEPENDENT GERMAN PRINCES," BY "MEDIATION OF THE REICH," AND OTHERWISE; ALL IN VAIN

Chapter V.—BRITANNIC MAJESTY FIGHTS HIS BATTLE OF DETTINGEN; AND BECOMES SUPREME JOVE OF GERMANY, IN A MANNER

BATTLE OF DETTINGEN

BRITANNIC MAJESTY HOLDS HIS CONFERENCES OF HANAU

HUNGARIAN MAJESTY ANSWERS, IN THE DIET, THAT FRENCH DECLARATION, "MAKE PEACE, GOOD PEOPLE; I WISH TO BE OUT OF IT!"—IN AN OMINOUS MANNER

BRITANNIC MAJESTY GOES HOME

Chapter VI.—VOLTAIRE VISITS FRIEDRICH FOR THE FOURTH TIME

FRIEDRICH VISITS BAIREUTH: ON A PARTICULAR ERRAND;—VOLTAIRE ATTENDING, AND PRIVATELY REPORTING

Chapter VII.—FRIEDRICH MAKES TREATY WITH FRANCE; AND SILENTLY GETS READY

Chapter VIII.—PERFECT PEACE AT BERLIN, WAR ALL ROUND

THE SUCCESSION IN RUSSIA, AND ALSO IN SWEDEN, SHALL NOT BE HOSTILE TO US: TWO ROYAL MARRIAGES, A RUSSIAN AND A SWEDISH, ARE ACCOMPLISHED AT BERLIN, WITH SUCH VIEW

GLANCE AT THE BELLIGERENT POWERS; BRITANNIC MAJESTY NARROWLY MISSES AN INVASION THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN DANGEROUS

THE YOUNG DUKE OF WURTEMBERG GETS A VALEDICTORY ADVICE; AND POLLNITZ A DITTO TESTIMONIAL (February 6th; April 1st, 1744)

TWO CONQUESTS FOR PRUSSIA, A GASEOUS AND A SOLID: CONQUEST FIRST, BARBERINA THE DANCER

CONQUEST SECOND IS OST-FRIESLAND, OF A SOLID NATURE

Volume 15

BOOK XV.—SECOND SILESIAN WAR, IMPORTANT EPISODE IN THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE.—15th Aug. 1744–25th Dec. 1745

Chapter I.—PRELIMINARY: HOW THE MOMENT ARRIVED

PRINCE KARL GETS ACROSS THE RHINE (20 JUNE-2 JULY, 1744)

FRIEDRICH DECIDES TO INTERVENE

Chapter II.—FRIEDRICH MARCHES UPON PRAG, CAPTURES PRAG

Chapter III.—FRIEDRICH, DILIGENT IN HIS BOHEMIAN CONQUESTS, UNEXPECTEDLY COMES UPON PRINCE KARL, WITH NO FRENCH ATTENDING HIM

FRIEDRICH, LEAVING SMALL GARRISON IN PRAG, RUSHES SWIFTLY UP THE MOLDAU VALLEY, UPON THE TABOR-BUDWEIS COUNTRY; TO PLEASE HIS FRENCH FRIENDS

THE FRENCH ARE LITTLE GRATEFUL FOR THE PLEASURE DONE THEM AT SUCH RUINOUS EXPENSE

Chapter IV.—FRIEDRICH REDUCED TO STRAITS; CANNOT MAINTAIN HIS MOLDAU CONQUESTS AGAINST PRICE KARL

FRIEDRICH TRIES TO HAVE BATTLE FROM PRINCE KARL, IN THE MOLDAU COUNTRIES; CANNOT, OWING TO THE SKILL OF PRINCE KARL OR OF OLD FELDMARSCHALL TRAUN;—HAS TO RETIRE BEHIND THE SAZAWA, AND ULTIMATELY BEHIND THE ELBE, WITH MUCH LABOR IN VAIN

FRIEDRICH'S RETREAT; ESPECIALLY EINSIEDEL'S FROM PRAG

Chapter V.—FRIEDRICH, UNDER DIFFICULTIES, PREPARES FOR A NEW CAMPAIGN

OLD DESSAUER REPELS THE SILESIAN INVASION (Winter, 1744–45)

THE FRENCH FULLY INTEND TO BEHAVE BETTER NEXT SEASON TO FRIEDRICH AND THEIR GERMAN ALLIES;—BUT ARE PREVENTED BY VARIOUS ACCIDENTS (November, 1744-April, 1745; April-August, 1745)

STRANGE ACCIDENT TO MARECHAL DE BELLEISLE IN THE HARZ MOUNTAINS (20th December, 1744)

THE KAISER KARL VII. GETS SECURED FROM OPPRESSIONS, IN A TRAGIC WAY. FRIEDRICH PROPOSES PEACE, BUT TO NO PURPOSE

Chapter VI.—VALORI GOES ON AN ELECTIONEERING MISSION TO DRESDEN

1. FRIEDRICH'S POSITION TOWARDS SAXONY

2. THERE IS A, "UNION OF WARSAW" (8th January, 1745); AND STILL MORE SPECIALLY A "TREATY OF WARSAW" (8th January-18th May, 1745)

3. VALORI'S ACCOUNT OF HIS MISSION (in compressed form). [Valori, i. 211–219.]

MIDDLE-RHINE ARMY IN A STAGGERING STATE; THE BAVARIAN INTRICACY SETTLES ITSELF, THE WRONG WAY

Chapter VII.—FRIEDRICH IN SILESIA; UNUSUALLY BUSY

KING FRIEDRICH TO PODEWILS, IN BERLIN (under various dates, March-April, 1745)

FRIEDRICH TO PODEWILS (as before, April-May, 1745)

Chapter VIII.—THE MARTIAL BOY AND HIS ENGLISH versus THE LAWS OF NATURE

BATTLE OF FONTENOY (11th May, 1745)

Chapter IX.—THE AUSTRIAN-SAXON ARMY INVADES SILESIA, ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS

Chapter X.—BATTLE OF HOHENFRIEDBERG

Chapter XI.—CAMP OF CHLUM: FRIEDRICH CANNOT ACHIEVE PEACE

CAMP OF DIESKAU: BRITANNIC MAJESTY MAKES PEACE, FOR HIMSELF, WITH FRIEDRICH; BUT CANNOT FOR AUSTRIA OR SAXONY

SCHONBRUNN, 2d AUGUST, 1745, ROBINSON HAS AUDIENCE OF HER HUNGARIAN MAJESTY

GRAND-DUKE FRANZ IS ELECTED KAISER (13TH SEPTEMBER, 1745); FRIEDRICH, THE SEASON AND FORAGE BEING DONE, MAKES FOR SILESIA

Chapter XII.—BATTLE OF SOHR

Chapter XIII.—SAXONY AND AUSTRIA MAKE A SURPRISING LAST ATTEMPT

FRIEDRICH GOES OUT TO MEET HIS THREE-LEGGED MONSTER; CUTS ONE LEG OF IT IN TWO (Fight of Hennersdorf, 23d November, 1745)

PRINCE KARL, CUT IN TWO, TUMBLES HOME AGAIN DOUBLE-QUICK

Chapter XIV.—BATTLE OF KESSELSDORF

Chapter XV.—PEACE OF DRESDEN: FRIEDRICH DOES MARCH HOME

Volume 16

BOOK XVI.—THE TEN YEARS OF PEACE.—1746–1756

Chapter I.—SANS-SOUCI

FRIEDRICH DECLINES THE CAREER OF CONQUERING HERO; GOES INTO LAW-REFORM; AND GETS READY A COTTAGE RESIDENCE FOR HIMSELF

Chapter II.—PEEP AT VOLTAIRE AND HIS DIVINE EMILIE (BY CANDLELIGHT) IN THE TIDE OF EVENTS

VOLTAIRE AND THE DIVINE EMILIE APPEAR SUDDENLY, ONE NIGHT, AT SCEAUX

WAR-PASSAGES IN 1747

MARSHAL KEITH COMES TO PRUSSIA (September, 1747)

Chapter III.—EUROPEAN WAR FALLS DONE: TREATY OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE

MARECHAL DE SAXE PAYS FRIEDRICH A VISIT

TRAGIC NEWS, THAT CONCERN US, OF VOLTAIRE AND OTHERS

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

Chapter V. STRANGERS OF NOTE COME TO BERLIN, IN 1750

CANDIDATUS LINSENBARTH (QUASI "Lentil-beard") LIKEWISE VISITS BERLIN

SIR JONAS HANWAY STALKS ACROSS THE SCENE, TOO; IN A PONDERING AND OBSERVING MANNER

Chapter VI.—BERLIN CARROUSEL, AND VOLTAIRE VISIBLE THERE

PERPETUAL PRESIDENT MAUPERTUIS HAS A VISIT FROM ONE KONIG, OUT OF HOLLAND, CONCERNING THE INFINITELY LITTLE

Chapter VII.—M. DE VOLTAIRE HAS A PAINFUL JEW-LAWSUIT

THE VOLTAIRE-HIRSCH TRANSACTION: PART I. ORIGIN OF LAWSUIT (10th November-25th December, 1750)

PART II. THE LAWSUIT ITSELF (30th December, 1750–18th and 26th February, 1751)

Chapter VIII. OST-FRIESLAND AND THE SHIPPING INTERESTS

FRIEDRIAH VISITS OST-FRIESLAND

Chapter IX.—SECOND ACT OF THE VOLTAIRE VISIT

DETACHED FEATURES (NOT FABULOUS) OF VOLTAIRE AND HIS BERLIN-POTSDAM ENVIRONMENT IN 1751–1752

FRACTIONS OF EVENTS AND INDICATIONS, FROM VOLTAIRE HIMSELF, IN THIS TIME; MORE OR LESS ILLUMINATIVE WHEN REDUCED TO ORDER

Chapter X. DEMON NEWSWRITER, OF 1752

A DEMON NEWSWRITER GIVES AN "IDEA" OF FRIEDRICH; INTELLIGIBLE TO THE KNOWING CLASSES IN ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE

Chapter XI. THIRD ACT AND CATASTROPHE OF THE VOLTAIRE VISIT

"ANSWER FROM [VERY PRIVATELY VOLTAIRE, CALLING HIMSELF] A BERLIN ACADEMICIAN TO A PARIS ONE

Chapter XII. OF THE AFTERPIECE, WHICH PROVED STILL MORE TRAGICAL

PART I. FREDERSDORF SENDS INSTRUCTIONS; THE "OEUVRE DE POESIE" IS GOT; BUT—

PART II. VOLTAIRE, IN SPITE OF HIS EFFORTS, DOES GET AWAY (June 20th-July 7th)

Chapter XIII. ROMISH-KING QUESTION; ENGLISH-PRIVATEER QUESTION

Chapter XIV. THERE IS LIKE TO BE ANOTHER WAR AHEAD

Chapter XV.—ANTI-PRUSSIAN WAR-SYMPTOMS: FRIEDRICH VISIBLE FOR A MOMENT

"EXTRACTUS PROTOCOLLORUM IN INQUISITIONS-SACHEN,"—THAT IS TO SAY, EXTRACT OF PROTOCOLS IN INQUEST "CONTRA FRIEDRICH WILHELM MENZEL AND JOHANN BENJAMIN ERFURTH."

FRIEDRICH IS VISIBLE, IN HOLLAND, TO THE NAKED EYE, FOR SOME MINUTES (June 23d, 1755)

Volume 17

Book XVII—THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR: FIRST CAMPAIGN.—1756–1757

Chapter I.—WHAT FRIEDRICH HAD READ IN THE MENZEL DOCUMENTS

HOW FRIEDRICH DISCOVERED THE MYSTERY. CONCERNING MENZEL AND WEINGARTEN

Chapter II.—ENGLISH DIPLOMACIES ABROAD, IN PROSPECT OF A FRENCH WAR

THE TRIUMPHANT HANBURY TREATY BECOMES, ITSELF, NOTHING OR LESS;—BUT PRODUCES A FRIEDRICH TREATY, FOLLOWED BY RESULTS WHICH SURPRISE EVERYBODY

THERE HAS BEEN A COUNTER-TREATY GOING ON AT VERSAILLES IN THE INTERIM; WHICH HEREUPON STARTS OUT, AND TUMBLES THE WHOLLY ASTONISHED EUROPEAN DIPLOMACIES HEELS-OVER-HEAD

Chapter III.—FRENCH-ENGLISH WAR BREAKS OUT

KING FRIEDRICH'S ENIGMA GETS MORE AND MORE STRINGENT

Chapter IV.—FRIEDRICH PUTS A QUESTION AT VIENNA, TWICE OVER

Chapter V.—FRIEDRICH BLOCKADES THE SAXONS IN PIRNA COUNTRY

Chapter VI.—BATTLE OF LOBOSITZ

Chapter VII.—THE SAXONS GET OUT OF PIRNA ON DISMAL TERMS

Chapter VIII.—WINTER IN DRESDEN

Volume 18

BOOK XVIII.—SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT.—1757–1759

Chapter I.—THE CAMPAIGN OPENS

REICH'S THUNDER, SLIGHT SURVEY OF IT; WITH QUESTION, WHITHERWARD, IF ANY-WHITHER

FRIEDRICH SUDDENLY MARCHES ON PRAG

Chapter II.—BATTLE OF PRAG

Chapter III.—PRAG CANNOT BE GOT AT ONCE

COLONEL MAYER WITH HIS "FREE-CORPS" PARTY MAKES A VISIT, OF DIDACTIC NATURE, TO THE REICH

OF THE SINGULAR QUASI-BEWITCHED CONDITION OF ENGLAND; AND WHAT IS TO BE HOPED FROM IT FOR THE COMMON CAUSE, IF PRAG GO AMISS

PHENOMENA OF PRAG SIEGE:—PRAG SIEGE IS INTERRUPTED

Chapter IV.—BATTLE OF KOLIN

THE MARIA-THERESA ORDER, NEW KNIGHTHOOD FOR AUSTRIA

Chapter V.—FRIEDRICH AT LEITMERITZ, HIS WORLD OF ENEMIES COMING ON

PRINCE AUGUST WILHELM FINDS A BAD PROBLEM AT JUNG-BUNZLAU; AND DOES IT BADLY: FRIEDRICH THEREUPON HAS TO RISE FROM LEITMERITZ, AND TAKE THE FIELD ELSEWHERE, IN BITTER HASTE AND IMPATIENCE, WITH OUTLOOKS WORSE THAN EVER

Chapter VI.—DEATH OF WINTERFELD

Chapter VII.—FRIEDRICH IN THURINGEN, HIS WORLD OF ENEMIES ALL COME

I. FRIEDRICH'S MARCH TO ERFURT FROM DRESDEN—(31st August-13th September, 1757)

II. THE SOUBISE HILDBURGHAUSEN PEOPLE TAKE INTO THE HILLS; FRIEDRICH IN ERFURT NEIGHBORHOOD, HANGING ON, WEEK AFTER WEEK, IN AN AGONY OF INACTION (13th September-10th October)

LAMENTATION-PSALMS OF FRIEDRICH

III. RUMOR OF AN INROAD ON BERLIN SUDDENLY SETS FRIEDRICH ON MARCH THITHER: INROAD TAKES EFFECT—WITH IMPORTANT RESULTS, CHIEFLY IN A LEFT-HAND FORM

SCENE AT REGENSBURG IN THE INTERIM

BOOK XVIII (CONTINUED)—SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT. 1757–1759

Chapter VIII.—BATTLE OF ROSSBACH

CATASTROPHE OF DAUPHINESS (Saturday, 5th November, 1757)

Chapter IX.—FRIEDRICH MARCHES FOR SILESIA

FRIEDRICH'S SPEECH TO HIS GENERALS (Parchwitz, 3d December, 1757). [From RETZOW, i. 240–242.]

Chapter X.—BATTLE OF LEUTHEN

Chapter XI.—WINTER IN BRESLAU: THIRD CAMPAIGN OPENS

OF THE ENGLISH SUBSIDY

FRIEDRICH, AS INDEED PITT'S PEOPLE AND OTHERS HAVE DONE, TAKES THE FIELD UNCOMMONLY EARLY: FRIEDRICH GOES UPON SCHWEIDNITZ, SCHWEIDNITZ, AS THE PREFACE TO WHATEVER HIS CAMPAIGN MAY BE

Chapter XII.—SIEGE OF OLMUTZ

Chapter XIII.—BATTLE OF ZORNDORF

THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR OVER AGAIN—THAT IS TO SAY, FRIEDRICH AT HAND-GRIPS WITH FERMOR AND HIS RUSSIANS (25TH AUGUST, 1758)

Chapter XIV.—BATTLE OF HOCHKIRCH

DAUN AND THE REICHS ARMY INVADE SAXONY, IN FRIEDRICH'S ABSENCE

FRIEDRICH INTERVENING, DAUN DRAWS BACK; INTRENCHES HIMSELF IN NEIGHBORHOOD TO DRESDEN AND PIRNA; FRIEDRICH FOLLOWING HIM. FOUR ARMIES STANDING THERE, IN DEAD-LOCK, FOR A MONTH; WITH ISSUE, A FLANK-MARCH ON THE PART OF FRIEDRICH'S ARMY, WHICH HALTS AT HOCH KIRCH (September 12th-October 10th, 1758)

WHAT ACTUALLY BEFELL AT HOCHKIRCH (Saturday, 14th October, 1758)

SEQUEL OF HOCHKIRCH; THE CAMPAIGN ENDS IN A WAY SURPRISING TO AN ATTENTIVE PUBLIC (22d October-20th November, 1758)

FRIEDRICH MARCHES, ENIGMATICALLY, NOT ON GLOGAU, BUT ON REICHENBACH AND GORLITZ; TO DAUN'S ASTONISHMENT

FELDMARSCHALL DAUN AND THE REICHS ARMY TRY SOME SIEGE OF DRESDEN (9th-16th November)

Volume 19

BOOK XIX.—FRIEDRICH LIKE TO BE OVERWHELMED IN THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR.—1759–1760

Chapter I.—PRELIMINARIES TO A FOURTH CAMPAIGN

OF THE SMALL-WAR IN SPRING, 1759. THERE ARE FIVE DISRUPTIONS OF THAT GRAND CORDON (February-April); AND FERDINAND OF BRUNSWICK FIGHTS HIS BATTLE OF BERGEN (April 13th)

Chapter II.—GENERAL DOHNA; DICTATOR WEDELL: BATTLE OF ZULLICHAU

DICTATOR WEDELL FIGHTS HIS BATTLE (Monday, 23d July, 1759), WITHOUT SUCCESS

Chapter III.—FRIEDRICH IN PERSON ATTEMPTS THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM; NOT WITH SUCCESS

Chapter IV.—BATTLE OF KUNERSDORF

Chapter V.—SAXONY WITHOUT DEFENCE: SCHMETTAU SURRENDERS DRESDEN

THE "REICHS ARMY" 80 CALLED HAS ENTERED SAXONY, UNDER FINE OMENS; DOES SOME FEATS OF SIEGING (August 7th-23d)—WITH AN EYE ON DRESDEN AS THE CROWNING ONE

AUSTRIAN REICHS ARMY DOES ITS CROWNING FEAT (August 26th-September 4th): DIARY OF WHAT IS CALLED THE "SIEGE" OF DRESDEN

Chapter VI.—PRINCE HENRI MAKES A MARCH OF FIFTY HOURS; THE RUSSIANS CANNOT FIND LODGING IN SILESIA

DAUN, SOLTIKOF AND COMPANY AGAIN HAVE A COLLOQUY (Bautzen, September 15th); AFTER WHICH EVERYBODY STARTS ON HIS SPECIAL COURSE OF ACTION

FRIEDRICH MANAGES (September 24th-October 24th) TO GET THE RUSSIANS SENT HOME; AND HIMSELF FALLS LAMED WITH GOUT

Chapter VII.—FRIEDRICH REAPPEARS ON THE FIELD, AND IN SEVEN DAYS AFTER COMES THE CATASTROPHE OF MAXEN

Chapter VIII.—MISCELLANEA IN WINTER-QUARTERS, 1759–1760

SERENE HIGHNESS OF WURTEMBERG, AT FULDA (November 30th, 1759), IS JUST ABOUT "FIRING VICTORIA," AND GIVING A BALL TO BEAUTY AND FASHION, IN HONOR OF A CERTAIN EVENT;—BUT IS UNPLEASANTLY INTERRUPTED

WHAT IS PERPETUAL PRESIDENT MAUPERTUIS DOING, ALL THIS WHILE? IS HE STILL IN BERLIN; OR WHERE IN THE UNIVERSE IS HE? ALAS, POOR MAUPERTUIS!

GRAND FRENCH INVASION-SCHEME COMES ENTIRELY TO WRECK (Quiberon Bay, 20th November, 1759): OF CONTROLLER-GENERAL SILHOUETTE, AND THE OUTLOOKS OF FRANCE, FINANCIAL AND OTHER

FRIEDRICH, STRANGE TO SAY, PUBLISHES (March-June, 1760) AN EDITION OF HIS POEMS. QUESTION, "WHO WROTE Matinees du Roi de Prusse?"—FOR THE SECOND, AND POSITIVELY THE LAST TIME

PEACE-NEGOTIATIONS HOPEFUL TO FRIEDRICH ALL THROUGH WINTER; BUT THE FRENCH WON'T. VOLTAIRE, AND HIS STYLE OF CORRESPONDING

VOLTAIRE ON FRIEDRICH, TO DIFFERENT THIRD-PARTIES, DURING THIS WAR

VOLTAIRE ON SURROUNDING OBJECTS, CHIEFLY ON MAUPERTUIS, AND THE BATTLES

FRIEDRICH TO VOLTAIRE, BEFORE AND DURING THESE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

FRIEDRICH HAS SENT LORD MARISCHAL TO SPAIN: OTHER FOND HOPES OF FRIEDRICH'S

Chapter IX.—PRELIMINARIES TO A FIFTH CAMPAIGN

Volume 20

BOOK XX.—FRIEDRICH IS NOT TO BE OVERWHELMED: THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR GRADUALLY ENDS—25th April, 1760–15th February, 1763

Chapter I.—FIFTH CAMPAIGN OPENS

Chapter II.—FRIEDRICH BESIEGES DRESDEN

CAPTURE OF GLATZ (26th July, 1760)

DIALOGUE OF FRIEDRICH AND HENRI (from their Private Correspondence: June 7th-July 29th, 1760)

DUKE FERDINAND'S BATTLE OF WARBURG (31st July, 1760)

Chapter III.—BATTLE OF LIEGNITZ

LOUDON IS TRYING A STROKE-OF-HAND ON BRESLAU, IN THE GLATZ FASHION, IN THE INTERIM (July 30th-August 3d)

FRIEDRICH ON MARCH, FOR THE THIRD TIME, TO RESCUE SILESIA (August 1st-15th)

BATTLE, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF LIEGNITZ, DOES ENSUE (Friday morning, 15th August, 1760)

Chapter IV.—DAUN IN WRESTLE WITH FRIEDRICH IN THE SILESIAN HILLS

THE RUSSIANS MAKE A RAID ON BERLIN, FOR RELIEF OF DAUN AND THEIR OWN BEHOOF (October 3d-12th, 1760)

Chapter V.—BATTLE OF TORGAU

FIGHT OF KLOSTER KAMPEN (Night of October 15th-16th); WESEL NOT TO BE HAD BY DUKE FERDINAND

Chapter VI.—WINTER-QUARTERS 1760–1761

KING FRIEDRICH IN THE APEL HOUSE AT LEIPZIG (8th December, 1760–17th March, 1761)

INTERVIEW WITH HERR PROFESSOR GELLERT (Thursday, 18th December, 1760)

DIALOGUE WITH GENERAL SALDERN (in the Apel House, Leipzig, 21st January, 1761)

THERE ARE SOME WAR-MOVEMENTS DURING WINTER; GENERAL FINANCIERING DIFFICULTIES. CHOISEUL PROPOSES PEACE

Chapter VII.—SIXTH CAMPAIGN OPENS: CAMP OF BUNZELWITZ

OF FERDINAND'S BATTLE OF VELLINGHAUSEN (15th-16th July); AND THE CAMPAIGN 1761

THIRD SIEGE OF COLBERG

Chapter VIII.—LOUDON POUNCES UPON SCHWEIDNITZ ONE NIGHT (LAST OF SEPTEMBER, 1761)

Chapter IX.—TRAITOR WARKOTSCH

Chapter X.—FRIEDRICH IN BRESLAU; HAS NEWS FROM PETERSBURG

THE PITT CATASTROPHE: HOW THE PEACE-NEGOTIATION WENT OFF BY EXPLOSION; HOW PITT WITHDREW (3d October, 1761), AND THERE CAME A SPANISH WAR NEVERTHELESS

TIFF OF QUARREL BETWEEN KING AND HENRI (March-April, 1762)

BRIGHT NEWS FROM PETERSBURG (certain, Jan. 19th); WHICH GROW EVER BRIGHTER; AND BECOME A STAR-OF-DAY FOR FRIEDRICH

WHAT COLONEL HORDT AND THE OTHERS SAW AT PETERSBURG (January-July, 1762)

Chapter XI.—SEVENTH CAMPAIGN OPENS

Chapter XII.—SIEGE OF SCHWEIDNITZ: SEVENTH CAMPAIGN ENDS

Chapter XIII.—PEACE OF HUBERTSBURG

Volume 21

BOOK XXI.—AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF FRIEDRICH'S LIFE—1763–1786

Chapter I.—PREFATORY

Chapter II.—REPAIRING OF A RUINED PRUSSIA

LANDRATH NUSSLER AND THE KING (30th March-3d April, 1763)

III. SATURDAY, APRIL 3d, IN THE SCHLOSS AGAIN: NUSSLER AND LANDRATHS. To them, the KING

KRIEGSRATH RODEN AND THE KING (6th-13th June, 1763)

OF FRIEDRICH'S NEW EXCISE SYSTEM

THE NEUE PALAIS, IN SANS-SOUCI NEIGHBORHOOD, IS FOUNDED AND FINISHED (1763–1770)

"OBITUARY IN FRIEDRICH'S CIRCLE TILL 1771."

Chapter III.—TROUBLES IN POLAND

KING OF POLAND DIES; AND THERE ENSUE HUGE ANARCHIES IN THAT COUNTRY

EX-LOVER PONIATOWSKI BECOMES KING OF POLAND (7th Sept. 1764), AND IS CROWNED WITHOUT LOSS OF HIS HAIR

FOR SEVERAL YEARS THE DISSIDENT QUESTION CANNOT BE GOT SETTLED; CONFEDERATION OF RADOM (23d June, 1767–5th March, 1768) PUSHES IT INTO SETTLEMENT

CONFEDERATION OF BAR ENSUES, ON THE PER-CONTRA SIDE (March 28th, 1768); AND, AS FIRST RESULT OF ITS ACHIEVEMENTS (October 6th, 1768), A TURK-RUSSIAN WAR

Chapter IV.—PARTITION OF POLAND

FIRST INTERVIEW BETWEEN FRIEDRICH AND KAISER JOSEPH (Neisse, 25th-28th August, 1769)

NEXT YEAR THERE IS A SECOND INTERVIEW; FRIEDRICH MAKING A RETURN-VISIT DURING THE KAISER'S MORAVIAN REVIEWS (Camp of Mahrisch-Neustadt, 3d-7th September, 1770)

RUSSIAN-TURK WAR, FIRST TWO CAMPAIGNS

PRINCE HENRI HAS BEEN TO SWEDEN; IS SEEN AT PETERSBURG IN MASQUERADE (on or about New-year's Day, 1771); AND DOES GET HOME, WITH RESULTS THAT ARE IMPORTANT

THE EMPRESS-QUEEN TO PRINCE KAUNITZ (Undated: date must be Vienna, February, 1772)

WHAT FRIEDRICH DID WITH HIS NEW ACQUISITION

Chapter V.—A CHAPTER OF MISCELLANIES

HERR DOCTOR ZIMMERMANN, THE FAMOUS AUTHOR OF THE BOOK "ON SOLITUDE," WALKS REVERENTIALLY BEFORE FRIEDRICH'S DOOR IN THE DUSK OF AN OCTOBER EVENING: AND HAS A ROYAL INTERVIEW NEXT DAY

SISTER ULRIQUE, QUEEN-DOWAGER OF SWEDEN, REVISITS HER NATIVE PLACE (December, 1771-August, 1772)

WILHELMINA'S DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH FREDERIKE SOPHIE, DUCHESS OF WURTEMBERG, APPEARS AT FERNEY (September, 1773)

No. 1. DR BURNEY HAS SIGHT OF VOLTAIRE (July, 1770)

NO. 2. A REVEREND MR. SHERLOCK SEES VOLTAIRE, AND EVEN DINES WITH HIM (April, 1776)

GENERAL OR FIELDMARSHAL CONWAY, DIRECT FROM THE LONDON CIRCLES, ATTENDS ONE OF FRIEDRICH'S REVIEWS (August-September, 1774)

EXUBERANT SHERLOCK AND ELEVEN OTHER ENGLISH ARE PRESENTED TO FRIEDRICH ON A COURT OCCASION (8th October, 1777); AND TWO OF THEM GET SPOKEN TO, AND SPEAK EACH A WORD. EXCELLENCY HUGH ELLIOT IS THEIR INTRODUCER

Chapter VI.—THE BAVARIAN WAR

Chapter VII.—MILLER ARNOLD'S LAWSUIT

"PROTOCOL [of December 11th, Title already given; [Supra, p. 439 n.] Docketing adds], WHICH IS TO BE PRINTED."

Chapter VIII.—THE FURSTENBUND: FRIEDRICH'S LAST YEARS

PRINCE DE LIGNE, AFTER TEN YEARS, SEES FRIEDRICH A SECOND TIME; TIME; AND REPORTS WHAT WAS SAID

HOW GENERAL VON DER MARWITZ, IN EARLY BOYHOOD, SAW FRIEDRICH THE GREAT THREE TIMES (1782–1785)

GENERAL BOUILLE, HOME FROM HIS WEST-INDIAN EXPLOITS, VISITS FRIEDRICH (August 5th-11th, 1784)

Chapter IX.—FRIEDRICH'S LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH

APPENDIX

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

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Thomas Carlyle

Biography of the Famous Prussian King, Called Frederick the Great

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Alas, far enough from that. Forces of their own they have, after a sort; subsidized Hessians, Danes, these they can begin to stir up; but they have not a regiment ready for fighting; and have NOTHING, if all were ready, which this 44,000 cannot too probably sweep out of the world. I suppose little George must have exhibited some prismatic colors of countenance, too. This insulted Orson is swinging a tremendous club upon the little peruked ribboned high gentleman, promenading loftily in his preserves yonder! The Prussian forces march, steady, continual; Crown-Prince Friedrich's regiment of Giants is on march, expressly under charge of Friedrich himself:—the young man's thoughts are not recorded for us; only that he gets praise from his Father, so dexterous and perfect is he with the Giants and their getting into gear. Nor is there, says our Foreign Correspondent, the least truth, in your rumor that the Prussian forces, officers or men, marched with bad will; "conspicuously the reverse is the truth, as I myself can testify." [Pamphlet cited above.] And his Britannic Majesty, now making a dreadful flutter to assemble as fast as possible, is like to get quite flung into the bogs by this terrible Orson!—

What an amazement, among the Gazetteers: thunder-clouds of war mounting up over the zenith in this manner, and blotting out the sun; may produce an effect on the Congress of Soissons? Presumably: and his Imperial Majesty, left sitting desolate on his Pragmatic Sanction, gloomily watching events, may find something turn up to his advantage? Prussia and England are sufficiently in quarrel, at any rate; perhaps almost too much.—The Pope, in these circumstances, did a curious thing. The Pope, having prayed lately for rain and got it, proceeds now, in the end of September, while such war-rumors are still at their height in Rome, to pray, or even do a Public Mass, or some other so-called Pontificality, "in the Chapel of Philip Neri in the New Church," by way of still more effectual miracle. Prays, namely, That Heaven would be graciously pleased to foment, and blow up to the proper degree, this quarrel between the two chief Heretic Powers, Heaven's chief enemies, whereby Holy Religion might reap a good benefit, if it pleased Heaven. But, this time, the miracle did not go off according to program. ["Extract of a Letter from Rome, 24th September, 1729," in Townshend's Despatch, Whitehall, 10th Outober, 1729.]

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