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Title: History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
Subjects: Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786 Prussia (Germany) -- History Frederick II, 1740-1786
Publisher: Boston : D. Estes and C.E. Lauriat
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ARTIAL BOY AND ins ENGLISH versus THE LAWS OF NATURE 431 Battle of Fontenoy (llth May, 1745), p. 432. IX. THE AUSTRIAN-SAXON ARMY INVADES SILESIA, ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS 446 X. BATTLE OF HOHENFRIEDBERG 461 XI. CAMP OF CHLUM : ERIEDRICH CANNOT ACHIEVE PEACE . 463 Camp of Dieskau : Britannic Majesty makes Peace, for himself, with Friedrich; but cannot for Austria or Saxony, p. 477.Schonbrunn, 2d August, 1745, Robinson has Audience of her Hungarian Majesty, 479.Grand-Duke Franz is elected Kaiser (13th September, 1745) ; Friedrich, the Season and Forage being done, makes for Silesia, 483. XII. BATTLE OF SOHR 487 XIII. SAXONY AND AUSTRIA MAKE A SURPRISING LAST ATTEMPT 502 Friedrich goes out to meet his Three-legged Monster ; cuts oneLeg of it in two (Fij;ht of Heanersdorf, 23d November,1745), p. 50G. Prince Karl, cut in two, tumbles home again double-quick, 513. CONTENTS. ix MAPS. BATTLE OF CHOTUSITZ to face p. 165 DETTINGEN 257 FONTENOY 440 HOHENFRIEDBERG iofacep. 498 SOHK . . o . . . . ib.
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HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, CALLED FREDERICK THE GREAT. IN TWENTY-ONE BOOKS. VOL. VIII. P&OPERTY OF THE Gin OF NKV* YOU* THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIB&ARY MANHATTAN EESEBVE FREDERICK THE GREAT. BOOK XIII. FIRST SILESIAN WAR, LEAVING THE GENERAL EURO-PEAN ONE ABLAZE ALL ROUND, GETS ENDED. May, 1741-July, 1742. CHAPTEE I. BRITANNIC MAJESTY AS PALADIN OP THE PRAGMATIC. PART FIRST of his Britannic Majestys Sorrows, the Britan-nic or Domestic Part, is now perhaps conceivable to readers.But as to the Second, the Germanic or Pragmatic Part,—articulate History, after much consideration, is content torenounce attempting these; feels that these will remain for-ever inconceivable to mankind in the now altered times. Sosmall a gentleman; and he feels, dismally though with heroism,that he has got the axis of the world on his shoulder. PoorMajesty ! His eyes, proud as Joves, are nothing like so per-spicacious ; a pair of the poorest eyes : and he has to scan withthem, and unriddle unde

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