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Title: History Of Friedrich II of Prussia [Books XV - XXI]
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Table of Content
Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745
1. Chapter 1. Preliminary: How The Moment Arrived
2. __Prince Karl Gets Across The Rhine (20 June-2 July, 1744)
3. __Friedrich Decides To Intervene
4. Chapter 2. Friedrich Marches Upon Prag, Captures Prag
5. Chapter 3. Friedrich, Diligent In His Bohemian Conquests, Unexpectedly Comes Upon Prince Karl, With No French Attending Him
6. __Friedrich, Leaving Small Garrison In Prag, Rushes Swiftly Up The Moldau Valley, Upon The Tabor-Budweis Country; To Please His French Friends
7. __The French Are Little Grateful For The Pleasure Done Them At Such Ruinous Expense
8. Chapter 4. Friedrich Reduced To Straits; Cannot Maintain His Moldau Conquests Against Price Karl
9. __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
10. __Friedrich's Retreat; Especially Einsiedel's From Prag
11. Chapter 5. Friedrich, Under Difficulties, Prepares For A New Campaign
12. __Old Dessauer Repels The Silesian Invasion (winter, 1744-45)
13. __The French Fully Intend To Behave Better Next Season To Friedrich And Their German Allies;--But Are Prevented By Various Accidents (november, 174
14. __Strange Accident To Marechal De Belleisle In The Harz Mountains (20th December, 1744)
15. __The Kaiser Karl 7. Gets Secured From Oppressions, In A Tragic Way. Friedrich Proposes Peace, But To No Purpose
16. Chapter 6. Valori Goes On An Electioneering Mission To Dresden
17. __1. Friedrich's Position Towards Saxony
18. __2. There Is A, "Union Of Warsaw" (8th Jan 1745); And Still More Specially A "Treaty Of Warsaw" (8th Jan-18th May 1745)
19. __3. Valori's Account Of His Mission (in Compressed Form). [Valori, I. 211-219.]
20. __Middle-Rhine Army In A Staggering State; The Bavarian Intricacy Settles Itself, The Wrong Way
21. Chapter 7. Friedrich In Silesia; Unusually Busy
22. __King Friedrich To Podewils, In Berlin (under Various Dates, March-April, 1745)
23. __Friedrich To Podewils (as Before, April-May, 1745)
24. Chapter 8. The Martial Boy And His English Versus The Laws Of Nature
25. __Battle Of Fontenoy (11th May, 1745)
26. Chapter 9. The Austrian-Saxon Army Invades Silesia, Across The Mountains
27. Chapter 10. Battle Of Hohenfriedberg
28. Chapter 11. Camp Of Chlum: Friedrich Cannot Achieve Peace
29. __Camp Of Dieskau: Britannic Majesty Makes Peace, For Himself, With Friedrich; But Cannot For Austria Or Saxony
30. __Schonbrunn, 2d August, 1745, Robinson Has Audience Of Her Hungarian Majesty
31. __Grand-Duke Franz Is Elected Kaiser (13th September, 1745); Friedrich, The Season And Forage Being Done, Makes For Silesia
32. Chapter 12. Battle Of Sohr
33. Chapter 13. Saxony And Austria Make A Surprising Last Attempt
34. __Friedrich Goes Out To Meet His Three-Legged Monster; Cuts One Leg Of It In Two (fight Of Hennersdorf, 23d November, 1745)
35. __Prince Karl, Cut In Two, Tumbles Home Again Double-Quick
36. Chapter 14. Battle Of Kesselsdorf
37. Chapter 15. Peace Of Dresden: Friedrich Does March Home
Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756
1. Chapter 1. Sans-Souci
2. __Friedrich Declines The Career Of Conquering Hero; Goes Into Law-Reform; And Gets Ready A Cottage Residence For Himself
3. Chapter 2. Peep At Voltaire And His Divine Emilie (by Candlelight) In The Tide Of Events
4. __Voltaire And The Divine Emilie Appear Suddenly, One Night, At Sceaux
5. __War-Passages In 1747
6. __Marshal Keith Comes To Prussia (September, 1747)
7. Chapter 3. European War Falls Done: Treaty Of Aix-La-Chapelle
8. __Marechal De Saxe Pays Friedrich A Visit
9. __Tragic News, That Concern Us, Of Voltaire And Others
10. Chapter 4. Cocceji Finishes The Law-Reform; Friedrich Is Printing His Poesies
11. Chapter 5. Strangers Of Note Come To Berlin, In 1750
12. __Candidatus Linsenbarth (Quasi "Lentil-Beard") Likewise Visits Berlin
13. __Sir Jonas Hanway Stalks Across The Scene, Too; In A Pondering And Observing Manner
14. Chapter 6. Berlin Carrousel, And Voltaire Visible There
15. __Perpetual President Maupertuis Has A Visit From One Konig, Out Of Holland, Concerning The Infinitely Little
16. Chapter 7. M. De Voltaire Has A Painful Jew-Lawsuit
17. __The Voltaire-Hirsch Transaction: Part 1. Origin Of Lawsuit (10th November-25th December, 1750)
18. Part 2. The Lawsuit Itself (30th December, 1750-18th And 26th February, 1751)
19. Chapter 8. Ost-Friesland And The Shipping Interests
20. __Friedriah Visits Ost-Friesland
21. Chapter 9. Second Act Of The Voltaire Visit
22. __Detached Features (not Fabulous) Of Voltaire And His Berlin-Potsdam Environment In 1751-1752
23. __Fractions Of Events And Indications, From Voltaire Himself, In This Time; More Or Less Illuminative When Reduced To Order
24. Chapter 10. Demon Newswriter, Of 1752
25. __A Demon Newswriter Gives An "Idea" Of Friedrich; Intelligible To The Knowing Classes In England And Elsewhere
26. Chapter 11. Third Act And Catastrophe Of The Voltaire Visit
27. __"Answer From [Very Privately Voltaire, Calling Himself] A Berlin Academician To A Paris One
28. Chapter 12. Of The Afterpiece, Which Proved Still More Tragical
29. Part 1. Fredersdorf Sends Instructions; The "Oeuvre De Poesie" Is Got; But--
30. Part 2. Voltaire, In Spite Of His Efforts, Does Get Away (June 20th-July 7th)
31. Chapter 13. Romish-King Question; English-Privateer Question
32. Chapter 14. There Is Like To Be Another War Ahead
33. Chapter 15. Anti-Prussian War-Symptoms: Friedrich Visible For A Moment
34. __"Extractus Protocollorum In Inquisitions-Sachen,"--That Is To Say, Extract Of Protocols In Inquest "Contra Friedrich Wilhelm Menzel And Johann Benjamin Erfurth"
35. __Friedrich Is Visible, In Holland, To The Naked Eye, For Some Minutes (June 23d, 1755).
Book 17. The Seven-Years War: First Campaign.--1756-1757
1. Chapter 1. What Friedrich Had Read In The Menzel Documents
2. __How Friedrich Discovered The Mystery. Concerning Menzel And Weingarten
3. Chapter 2. English Diplomacies Abroad, In Prospect Of A French War
4. __The Triumphant Hanbury Treaty Becomes, Itself, Nothing Or Less;--But Produces A Friedrich Treaty, Followed By Results Which Surprise Everybody
5. __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.
6. Chapter 3. French-English War Breaks Out
7. __King Friedrich's Enigma Gets More And More Stringent
8. Chapter 4. Friedrich Puts A Question At Vienna, Twice Over
9. __The March Into Saxony, In Three Columns
10. Chapter 5. Friedrich Blockades The Saxons In Pirna Country
11. Chapter 6. Battle Of Lobositz
12. Chapter 7. The Saxons Get Out Of Pirna On Dismal Terms
13. Chapter 8. Winter In Dresden
Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759
1. Chapter 1. The Campaign Opens
2. __Reich's Thunder, Slight Survey Of It; With Question, Whitherward, If Any-Whither
3. __Friedrich Suddenly Marches On Prag
4. Chapter 2. Battle Of Prag
5. Chapter 3. Prag Cannot Be Got At Once
6. __Colonel Mayer With His "Free-Corps" Party Makes A Visit, Of Didactic Nature, To The Reich
7. __Of The Singular Quasi-Bewitched Condition Of England; And What Is To Be Hoped From It For The Common Cause, If Prag Go Amiss
8. __Phenomena Of Prag Siege:--Prag Siege Is Interrupted
9. Chapter 4. Battle Of Kolin
10. __The Maria-Theresa Order, New Knighthood For Austria
11. Chapter 5. Friedrich At Leitmeritz, His World Of Enemies Coming On
12. __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 Outl
13. Chapter 6. Death Of Winterfeld
14. Chapter 7. Friedrich In Thuringen, His World Of Enemies All Come
15. __I. Friedrich's March To Erfurt From Dresden--(31st August-13th September, 1757)
16. __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)
17. __Lamentation-Psalms Of Friedrich
18. __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
19. __Scene At Regensburg In The Interim
20. Chapter 8. Battle Of Rossbach
21. __Catastrophe Of Dauphiness (Saturday, 5th November, 1757)
22. Chapter 9. Friedrich Marches For Silesia
23. __Friedrich's Speech To His Generals (Parchwitz, 3d December, 1757). [From Retzow, I. 240-242 (Slightly Abridged)]
24. Chapter 10. Battle Of Leuthen
25. Chapter 11. Winter In Breslau: Third Campaign Opens
26. __Of The English Subsidy
27. __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
28. Chapter 12. Siege Of Olmutz
29. Chapter 13. Battle Of Zorndorf
30. __Theseus And The Minotaur Over Again,--That Is To Say, Friedrich At Hand-Grips With Fermor And His Russians (25th August, 1758)
31. Chapter 14. Battle Of Hochkirch
32. __Daun And The Reichs Army Invade Saxony, In Friedrich's Absence
33. __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-M
34. __What Actually Befell At Hochkirch (Saturday, 14th October, 1758)
35. __Sequel Of Hochkirch; The Campaign Ends In A Way Surprising To An Attentive Public (22d October-20th November, 1758)
36. __Friedrich Marches, Enigmatically, Not On Glogau, But On Reichenbach And Gorlitz; To Daun's Astonishment
37. __Feldmarschall Daun And The Reichs Army Try Some Siege Of Dresden (9th-16th November)
Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760
1. Chapter 1. Preliminaries To A Fourth Campaign
2. __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)
3. Chapter 2. General Dohna; Dictator Wedell: Battle Of Zullichau
4. __Dictator Wedell Fights His Battle (Monday, 23d July, 1759), Without Success
5. Chapter 3. Friedrich In Person Attempts The Russian Problem; Not With Success
6. Chapter 4. Battle Of Kunersdorf
7. Chapter 5. Saxony Without Defence: Schmettau Surrenders Dresden
8. __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
9. __Austrian Reichs Army Does Its Crowning Feat (August 26th-September 4th): Diary Of What Is Called The "Siege" Of Dresden
10. Chapter 6. Prince Henri Makes A March Of Fifty Hours; The Russians Cannot Find Lodging In Silesia
11. __Daun, Soltikof And Company Again Have A Colloquy (Bautzen, September 15th); After Which Everybody Starts On His Special Course Of Action
12. __Friedrich Manages (September 24th-October 24th) To Get The Russians Sent Home; And Himself Falls Lamed With Gout
13. Chapter 7. Friedrich Reappears On The Field, And In Seven Days After Comes The Catastrophe Of Maxen
14. Chapter 8. Miscellanea In Winter-Quarters, 1759-1760
15. __Serene Highness Of Wurtemberg, At Fulda (Nov 30th 1759), Is Just About "Firing Victoria," And Giving A Ball To Beauty And Fashion--But Is Unpleasantly Interrupted
16. __What Is Perpetual President Maupertuis Doing, All This While? Is He Still In Berlin; Or Where In The Universe Is He? Alas, Poor Maupertuis!
17. __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
18. __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
19. __Peace-Negotiations Hopeful To Friedrich All Through Winter; But The French Won't. Voltaire, And His Style Of Corresponding
20. __Voltaire On Friedrich, To Different Third-Parties, During This War
21. __Voltaire On Surrounding Objects, Chiefly On Maupertuis, And The Battles
22. __Friedrich To Voltaire, Before And During These Peace Negotiations
23. __Friedrich Has Sent Lord Marischal To Spain: Other Fond Hopes Of Friedrich's
24. Chapter 9. Preliminaries To A Fifth Campaign
Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763
1. Chapter 1. Fifth Campaign Opens
2. Chapter 2. Friedrich Besieges Dresden
3. __Capture Of Glatz (26th July, 1760)
4. __ Dialogue Of Friedrich And Henri (From Their Private Correspondence: June 7th-July 29th, 1760)
5. __Duke Ferdinand's Battle Of Warburg (31st July, 1760)
6. Chapter 3. Battle Of Liegnitz
7. __Loudon Is Trying A Stroke-Of-Hand On Breslau, In The Glatz Fashion, In The Interim (July 30th-August 3d)
8. __Friedrich On March, For The Third Time, To Rescue Silesia (August 1st-15th)
9. __Battle, In The Neighborhood Of Liegnitz, Does Ensue (Friday Morning, 15th August, 1760)
10. Chapter 4. Daun In Wrestle With Friedrich In The Silesian Hills
11. __The Russians Make A Raid On Berlin, For Relief Of Daun And Their Own Behoof (October 3d-12th, 1760)
12. Chapter 5. Battle Of Torgau
13. __Fight Of Kloster Kampen (Night Of October 15th-16th); Wesel Not To Be Had By Duke Ferdinand
14. Chapter 6. Winter-Quarters 1760-1761
15. __King Friedrich In The Apel House At Leipzig (8th December, 1760-17th March, 1761)
16. __Interview With Herr Professor Gellert (Thursday, 18th December, 1760)
17. __Dialogue With General Saldern (In The Apel House, Leipzig, 21st January, 1761)
18. __There Are Some War-Movements During Winter; General Financiering Difficulties. Choiseul Proposes Peace
19. Chapter 7. Sixth Campaign Opens: Camp Of Bunzelwitz
20. __Of Ferdinand's Battle Of Vellinghausen (15th-16th July); And The Campaign 1761
21. __Third Siege Of Colberg
22. Chapter 8. Loudon Pounces Upon Schweidnitz One Night (Last Of September, 1761)
23. Chapter 9. Traitor Warkotsch
24. Chapter 10. Friedrich In Breslau; Has News From Petersburg
25. __The Pitt Catastrophe: How The Peace-Negotiation Went Off By Explosion; How Pitt Withdrew (3d October, 1761), And There Came A Spanish W
26. __Tiff Of Quarrel Between King And Henri (March-April, 1762)
27. __Bright News From Petersburg (Certain, Jan. 19th); Which Grow Ever Brighter; And Become A Star-Of-Day For Friedrich
28. __What Colonel Hordt And The Others Saw At Petersburg (January-July, 1762)
29. Chapter 11. Seventh Campaign Opens
30. Chapter 12. Siege Of Schweidnitz: Seventh Campaign Ends
31. Chapter 13. Peace Of Hubertsburg
Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786
1. Chapter 1. Prefatory
2. Chapter 2. Repairing Of A Ruined Prussia
3. __Landrath Nussler And The King (30th March-3d April, 1763)
4. __Kriegsrath Roden And The King (6th-13th June, 1763)
5. __Of Friedrich's New Excise System
6. __The Neue Palais, In Sans-Souci Neighborhood, Is Founded And Finished (1763-1770)
7. __"Obituary In Friedrich's Circle Till 1771"
8. Chapter 3. Troubles In Poland
9. __King Of Poland Dies; And There Ensue Huge Anarchies In That Country
10. __Ex-Lover Poniatowski Becomes King Of Poland (7th Sept. 1764), And Is Crowned Without Loss Of His Hair
11. __For Several Years The Dissident Question Cannot Be Got Settled; Confederation Of Radom (23d June, 1767-5th March, 1768) Pushes It Into Settlement
12. __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
13. Chapter 4. Partition Of Poland
14. __First Interview Between Friedrich And Kaiser Joseph (Neisse, 25th-28th August, 1769)
15. __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)
16. __Russian-Turk War, First Two Campaigns
17. __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
18. __The Empress-Queen To Prince Kaunitz (Undated: Date Must Be Vienna, February, 1772)
19. __What Friedrich Did With His New Acquisition
20. Chapter 5. A Chapter Of Miscellanies
21. __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
22. __Sister Ulrique, Queen-Dowager Of Sweden, Revisits Her Native Place (December, 1771-August, 1772)
23. __Wilhelmina's Daughter, Elizabeth Frederike Sophie, Duchess Of Wurtemberg, Appears At Ferney (September, 1773)
24. __No. 1. Dr Burney Has Sight Of Voltaire (July, 1770)
25. __No. 2. A Reverend Mr. Sherlock Sees Voltaire, And Even Dines With Him (April, 1776)
26. __General Or Fieldmarshal Conway, Direct From The London Circles, Attends One Of Friedrich's Reviews (August-September, 1774)
27. __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
28. Chapter 6. The Bavarian War
29. Chapter 7. Miller Arnold's Lawsuit
30. __"Protocol [Of December 11th, Title Already Given; [Supra, P. 439 N.] Docketing Adds], Which Is To Be Printed"
31. Chapter 8. The Furstenbund: Friedrich's Last Years
32. __Prince De Ligne, After Ten Years, Sees Friedrich A Second Time; Time; And Reports What Was Said
33. __How General Von Der Marwitz, In Early Boyhood, Saw Friedrich The Great Three Times (1782-1785)
34. __General Bouille, Home From His West-Indian Exploits, Visits Friedrich (August 5th-11th, 1784)
35. Chapter 9. Friedrich's Last Illness And Death
Appendix
1. A Day With Friedrich
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