_ BOOK XVI. THE TEN YEARS OF PEACE.--1746-1756
       Chapter I. SANS-SOUCI
       Friedrich has now climbed the heights, and sees himself on the upper table-land of Victory and Success; his desperate life-and-death struggles triumphantly ended. What may be ahead, nobody knows; but here is fair outlook that his enemies and Austria itself have had enough of him. No wringing of his Silesia from this "bad Man." Not to be overset, this one, by never such exertions; oversets US, on the contrary, plunges us heels-over-head into the ditch, so often as we like to apply to him; nothing but heavy beatings, disastrous breaking of crowns, to be had on trying there! "Five Victories!" as Voltaire keeps counting on his fingers, with upturned eyes,--Mollwitz, Chotusitz, Striegau, Sohr, Kesselsdorf (the last done by Anhalt; but omitting Hennersdorf, and that sudden slitting of the big Saxon-Austrian Projects into a cloud of feathers, as fine a feat as any),--"Five Victories!" counts Voltaire; calling on everybody (or everybody but Friedrich himself, who is easily sated with that kind of thing) to admire. In the world are many opinions about Friedrich. In Austria, for instance, what an opinion; sinister, gloomy in the extreme: or in England, which derives from Austria,--only with additional dimness, and with gloomy new provocations of its own before long! Many opinions about Friedrich, all dim enough: but this, that he is a very demon for fighting, and the stoutest King walking the Earth just now, may well be a universal one. A man better not be meddled with, if he will be at peace, as he professes to wish being.
       Friedrich accordingly is not meddled with, or not openly meddled with; and has, for the Ten or Eleven Years coming, a time of perfect external Peace. He himself is decided "not to fight with a cat," if he can get the peace kept; and for about eight years hopes confidently that this, by good management, will continue possible;--till, in the last three years, electric symptoms did again disclose themselves, and such hope more and more died away. It is well known there lay in the fates a Third Silesian War for him, worse than both the others; which is now the main segment of his History still lying ahead for us, were this Halcyon Period done. Halcyon Period counts from Christmas-day, Dresden, 1745,--"from this day, Peace to the end of my life!" had been Friedrich's fond hope. But on the 9th day of September, 1756, Friedrich was again entering Dresden (Saxony some twelve days before); and the Crowning Struggle of his Life was, beyond all expectation, found to be still lying ahead for him, awfully dubious for Seven Years thereafter!--
       Friedrich's History during this intervening Halcyon or Peace Period must, in some way, be made known to readers: but for a great many reasons, especially at present, it behooves to be given in compressed form; riddled down, to an immense extent, out of those sad Prussian Repositories, where the grain of perennial, of significant and still memorable, lies overwhelmed under rubbish-mountains of the fairly extinct, the poisonously dusty and forgettable;--ACH HIMMEL! Which indispensable preliminary process, how can an English Editor, at this time, do it; no Prussian, at any time, having thought of trying it! From a painful Predecessor of mine, I collect, rummaging among his dismal Paper-masses, the following Three Fragments, worth reading here:--
       1. "Friedrich was as busy, in those Years, as in the generality of his life; and his actions, and salutary conquests over difficulties, were many, profitable to Prussia and to himself. Very well worth keeping in mind. But not fit for History; or at least only fit in the summary form; to be delineated in little, with large generic strokes,--if we had the means;--such details belonging to the Prussian Antiquary, rather than to the English Historian of Friedrich in our day. A happy Ten Years of time. Perhaps the time for Montesquieu's aphorism, 'Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books!' The Prussian Antiquary, had he once got any image formed to himself of Friedrich, and of Friedrich's History in its human lineaments and organic sequences, will glean many memorabilia in those Years: which his readers then (and not till then) will be able to intercalate in their places, and get human good of. But alas, while there is no intelligible human image, nothing of lineaments or organic sequences, or other than a jumbled mass of Historical Marine-Stores, presided over by Dryasdust and Human Stupor (unsorted, unlabelled, tied up in blind sacks), the very Antiquary will have uphill work of it, and his readers will often turn round on him with a gloomy expression of countenance!"
       2. "Friedrich's Life--little as he expected it, that day when he started up from his ague-fit at Reinsberg, and grasped the fiery Opportunity that was shooting past--is a Life of War. The chief memory that will remain of him is that of a King and man who fought consummately well. Not Peace and the Muses; no, that is denied him,--though he was so unwilling, always, to think it denied! But his Life-Task turned out to be a Battle for Silesia. It consists of Three grand Struggles of War. And not for Silesia only;--unconsciously, for what far greater things to his Nation and to him!
       "Deeply unconscious of it, they were passing their 'Trials,' his Nation and he, in the great Civil-Service-Examination Hall of this Universe: 'Are you able to defend yourselves, then; and to hang together coherent, against the whole world and its incoherencies and rages?' A question which has to be asked of Nations, before they can be recognized as such, and be baptized into the general commonwealth; they are mere Hordes or accidental Aggregates, till that Question come. Question which this Nation had long been getting ready for; which now, under this King, it answered to the satisfaction of gods and men: 'Yes, Heaven assisting, we can stand on our defence; and in the long-run (as with air when you try to annihilate it, or crush it to NOTHING) there is even an infinite force in us; and the whole world does not succeed in annihilating us!' Upon which has followed what we term National Baptism;--or rather this was the National Baptism, this furious one in torrent whirlwinds of fire; done three times over, till in gods or men there was no doubt left. That was Friedrich's function in the world; and a great and memorable one;--not to his own Prussian Nation only, but to Teutschland at large, forever memorable.
       "'Is Teutschland a Nation; is there in Teutschland still a Nation?' Austria, not dishonestly, but much sunk in superstitions and involuntary mendacities, and liable to sink much farther, answers always, in gloomy proud tone, 'Yes, I am the Nation of Teutschland!'--but is mistaken, as turns out. For it is not mendacities, conscious or other, but veracities, that the Divine Powers will patronize, or even in the end will put up with at all. Which you ought to understand better than you do, my friend. For, on the great scale and on the small, and in all seasons, circumstances, scenes and situations where a Son of Adam finds himself, that is true, and even a sovereign truth. And whoever does not know it,--human charity to him (were such always possible) would be, that HE were furnished with handcuffs as a part of his outfit in this world, and put under guidance of those who do. Yes; to him, I should say, a private pair of handcuffs were much usefuler than a ballot-box,--were the times once settled again, which they are far from being!"...
       "So that, if there be only Austria for Nation, Teutschland is in ominous case. Truly so. But there is in Teutschland withal, very irrecognizable to Teutschland, yet authentically present, a Man of the properly unconquerable type; there is also a select Population drilled for him: these two together will prove to you that there is a Nation. Conquest of Silesia, Three Silesian Wars; labors and valors as of Alcides, in vindication of oneself and one's Silesia:--secretly, how unconsciously, that other and higher Question of Teutschland, and of its having in it a Nation, was Friedrich's sore task and his Prussia's at that time. As Teutschland may be perhaps now, in our day, beginning to recognize; with hope, with astonishment, poor Teutschland!"...
       3. "And in fine, leaving all that, there is one thing undeniable: In all human Narrative, it is the battle only, and not the victory, that can be dwelt upon with advantage. Friedrich has now, by his Second Silesian War, achieved Greatness: 'Friedrich the Great;' expressly so denominated, by his People and others. The struggle upwards is the Romance; your hero once wedded,--to GLORY, or whoever the Bride may be,--the Romance ends. Precise critics do object, That there may still lie difficulties, new perils and adventures ahead:--which proves conspicuously true in this case of ours. And accordingly, our Book not being a Romance but a History, let us, with all fidelity, look out what these are, and how they modify our Royal Gentleman who has got his wedding done. With all fidelity; but with all brevity, no less. For, inasmuch as"--
       Well, brevity in most cases is desirable. And, privately, it must be owned there is another consideration of no small weight: That, our Prussian resources falling altogether into bankruptcy during Peace-Periods, Nature herself has so ordered it, in this instance! Partly it is our Books (the Prussian Dryasdust reaching his acme on those occasions), but in part too it is the Events themselves, that are small and want importance; that have fallen dead to us, in the huge new Time and its uproars. Events not of flagrant notability (like battles or war-passages), to bridle Dryasdust, and guide him in some small measure. Events rather which, except as characteristic of one memorable Man and King, are mostly now of no memorability whatever. Crowd all these indiscriminately into sacks, and shake them out pell-mell on us: that is Dryasdust's sweet way. As if the largest Marine-Stores Establishment in all the world had suddenly, on hest of some Necromancer or maleficent person, taken wing upon you; and were dancing, in boundless mad whirl, round your devoted head;--simmering and dancing, very much at its ease; no-whither; asking YOU cheerfully, "What is your candid opinion, then?" "Opinion," Heavens!--
       You have to retire many yards, and gaze with a desperate steadiness; assuring yourself: "Well, it does, right indisputably, shadow forth SOMEthing. This was a Thing Alive, and did at one time stick together, as an organic Fact on the Earth, though it now dances in Dryasdust at such a rate!" It is only by self-help of this sort, and long survey, with rigorous selection, and extremely extensive exclusion and oblivion, that you gain the least light in such an element. "Brevity"--little said, when little has been got to be known--is an evident rule! Courage, reader; by good eyesight, you will still catch some features of Friedrich as we go along. To SAY our little in a not unintelligible manner, and keep the rest well hidden, it is all we can do for you!-- _

Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - Chapter 1. Preliminary: How The Moment Arrived
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __Prince Karl Gets Across The Rhine (20 June-2 July, 1744)
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __Friedrich Decides To Intervene
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - Chapter 2. Friedrich Marches Upon Prag, Captures Prag
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - Chapter 3. Friedrich, Diligent In His Bohemian Conquests, Unexpectedly Comes Upon Prince Karl, With No French Attending Him
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __Friedrich, Leaving Small Garrison In Prag, Rushes Swiftly Up The Moldau Valley, Upon The Tabor-Budweis Country; To Please His French Friends
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __The French Are Little Grateful For The Pleasure Done Them At Such Ruinous Expense
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - Chapter 4. Friedrich Reduced To Straits; Cannot Maintain His Moldau Conquests Against Price Karl
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __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
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __Friedrich's Retreat; Especially Einsiedel's From Prag
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - Chapter 5. Friedrich, Under Difficulties, Prepares For A New Campaign
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __Old Dessauer Repels The Silesian Invasion (winter, 1744-45)
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __The French Fully Intend To Behave Better Next Season To Friedrich And Their German Allies;--But Are Prevented By Various Accidents (november, 174
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __Strange Accident To Marechal De Belleisle In The Harz Mountains (20th December, 1744)
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __The Kaiser Karl 7. Gets Secured From Oppressions, In A Tragic Way. Friedrich Proposes Peace, But To No Purpose
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - Chapter 6. Valori Goes On An Electioneering Mission To Dresden
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __1. Friedrich's Position Towards Saxony
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __2. There Is A, "Union Of Warsaw" (8th Jan 1745); And Still More Specially A "Treaty Of Warsaw" (8th Jan-18th May 1745)
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __3. Valori's Account Of His Mission (in Compressed Form). [Valori, I. 211-219.]
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __Middle-Rhine Army In A Staggering State; The Bavarian Intricacy Settles Itself, The Wrong Way
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - Chapter 7. Friedrich In Silesia; Unusually Busy
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __King Friedrich To Podewils, In Berlin (under Various Dates, March-April, 1745)
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __Friedrich To Podewils (as Before, April-May, 1745)
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - Chapter 8. The Martial Boy And His English Versus The Laws Of Nature
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __Battle Of Fontenoy (11th May, 1745)
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - Chapter 9. The Austrian-Saxon Army Invades Silesia, Across The Mountains
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - Chapter 10. Battle Of Hohenfriedberg
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - Chapter 11. Camp Of Chlum: Friedrich Cannot Achieve Peace
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __Camp Of Dieskau: Britannic Majesty Makes Peace, For Himself, With Friedrich; But Cannot For Austria Or Saxony
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __Schonbrunn, 2d August, 1745, Robinson Has Audience Of Her Hungarian Majesty
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __Grand-Duke Franz Is Elected Kaiser (13th September, 1745); Friedrich, The Season And Forage Being Done, Makes For Silesia
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - Chapter 12. Battle Of Sohr
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - Chapter 13. Saxony And Austria Make A Surprising Last Attempt
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __Friedrich Goes Out To Meet His Three-Legged Monster; Cuts One Leg Of It In Two (fight Of Hennersdorf, 23d November, 1745)
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - __Prince Karl, Cut In Two, Tumbles Home Again Double-Quick
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - Chapter 14. Battle Of Kesselsdorf
   Book 15. Second Silesian War, Important Episode In The General European One.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745 - Chapter 15. Peace Of Dresden: Friedrich Does March Home
Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Chapter 1. Sans-Souci
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __Friedrich Declines The Career Of Conquering Hero; Goes Into Law-Reform; And Gets Ready A Cottage Residence For Himself
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Chapter 2. Peep At Voltaire And His Divine Emilie (by Candlelight) In The Tide Of Events
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __Voltaire And The Divine Emilie Appear Suddenly, One Night, At Sceaux
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __War-Passages In 1747
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __Marshal Keith Comes To Prussia (September, 1747)
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Chapter 3. European War Falls Done: Treaty Of Aix-La-Chapelle
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __Marechal De Saxe Pays Friedrich A Visit
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __Tragic News, That Concern Us, Of Voltaire And Others
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Chapter 4. Cocceji Finishes The Law-Reform; Friedrich Is Printing His Poesies
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Chapter 5. Strangers Of Note Come To Berlin, In 1750
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __Candidatus Linsenbarth (Quasi "Lentil-Beard") Likewise Visits Berlin
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __Sir Jonas Hanway Stalks Across The Scene, Too; In A Pondering And Observing Manner
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Chapter 6. Berlin Carrousel, And Voltaire Visible There
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __Perpetual President Maupertuis Has A Visit From One Konig, Out Of Holland, Concerning The Infinitely Little
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Chapter 7. M. De Voltaire Has A Painful Jew-Lawsuit
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __The Voltaire-Hirsch Transaction: Part 1. Origin Of Lawsuit (10th November-25th December, 1750)
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Part 2. The Lawsuit Itself (30th December, 1750-18th And 26th February, 1751)
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Chapter 8. Ost-Friesland And The Shipping Interests
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __Friedriah Visits Ost-Friesland
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Chapter 9. Second Act Of The Voltaire Visit
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __Detached Features (not Fabulous) Of Voltaire And His Berlin-Potsdam Environment In 1751-1752
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __Fractions Of Events And Indications, From Voltaire Himself, In This Time; More Or Less Illuminative When Reduced To Order
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Chapter 10. Demon Newswriter, Of 1752
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __A Demon Newswriter Gives An "Idea" Of Friedrich; Intelligible To The Knowing Classes In England And Elsewhere
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Chapter 11. Third Act And Catastrophe Of The Voltaire Visit
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __"Answer From [Very Privately Voltaire, Calling Himself] A Berlin Academician To A Paris One
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Chapter 12. Of The Afterpiece, Which Proved Still More Tragical
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Part 1. Fredersdorf Sends Instructions; The "Oeuvre De Poesie" Is Got; But--
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Part 2. Voltaire, In Spite Of His Efforts, Does Get Away (June 20th-July 7th)
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Chapter 13. Romish-King Question; English-Privateer Question
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Chapter 14. There Is Like To Be Another War Ahead
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - Chapter 15. Anti-Prussian War-Symptoms: Friedrich Visible For A Moment
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __"Extractus Protocollorum In Inquisitions-Sachen,"--That Is To Say, Extract Of Protocols In Inquest "Contra Friedrich Wilhelm Menzel And Johann Benjamin Erfurth"
   Book 16. The Ten Years Of Peace.--1746-1756 - __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
   Book 17. The Seven-Years War: First Campaign.--1756-1757 - Chapter 1. What Friedrich Had Read In The Menzel Documents
   Book 17. The Seven-Years War: First Campaign.--1756-1757 - __How Friedrich Discovered The Mystery. Concerning Menzel And Weingarten
   Book 17. The Seven-Years War: First Campaign.--1756-1757 - Chapter 2. English Diplomacies Abroad, In Prospect Of A French War
   Book 17. The Seven-Years War: First Campaign.--1756-1757 - __The Triumphant Hanbury Treaty Becomes, Itself, Nothing Or Less;--But Produces A Friedrich Treaty, Followed By Results Which Surprise Everybody
   Book 17. The Seven-Years War: First Campaign.--1756-1757 - __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.
   Book 17. The Seven-Years War: First Campaign.--1756-1757 - Chapter 3. French-English War Breaks Out
   Book 17. The Seven-Years War: First Campaign.--1756-1757 - __King Friedrich's Enigma Gets More And More Stringent
   Book 17. The Seven-Years War: First Campaign.--1756-1757 - Chapter 4. Friedrich Puts A Question At Vienna, Twice Over
   Book 17. The Seven-Years War: First Campaign.--1756-1757 - __The March Into Saxony, In Three Columns
   Book 17. The Seven-Years War: First Campaign.--1756-1757 - Chapter 5. Friedrich Blockades The Saxons In Pirna Country
   Book 17. The Seven-Years War: First Campaign.--1756-1757 - Chapter 6. Battle Of Lobositz
   Book 17. The Seven-Years War: First Campaign.--1756-1757 - Chapter 7. The Saxons Get Out Of Pirna On Dismal Terms
   Book 17. The Seven-Years War: First Campaign.--1756-1757 - Chapter 8. Winter In Dresden
Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - Chapter 1. The Campaign Opens
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __Reich's Thunder, Slight Survey Of It; With Question, Whitherward, If Any-Whither
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __Friedrich Suddenly Marches On Prag
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - Chapter 2. Battle Of Prag
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - Chapter 3. Prag Cannot Be Got At Once
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __Colonel Mayer With His "Free-Corps" Party Makes A Visit, Of Didactic Nature, To The Reich
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __Of The Singular Quasi-Bewitched Condition Of England; And What Is To Be Hoped From It For The Common Cause, If Prag Go Amiss
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __Phenomena Of Prag Siege:--Prag Siege Is Interrupted
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - Chapter 4. Battle Of Kolin
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __The Maria-Theresa Order, New Knighthood For Austria
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - Chapter 5. Friedrich At Leitmeritz, His World Of Enemies Coming On
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __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
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - Chapter 6. Death Of Winterfeld
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - Chapter 7. Friedrich In Thuringen, His World Of Enemies All Come
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __I. Friedrich's March To Erfurt From Dresden--(31st August-13th September, 1757)
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __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)
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __Lamentation-Psalms Of Friedrich
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __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
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __Scene At Regensburg In The Interim
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - Chapter 8. Battle Of Rossbach
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __Catastrophe Of Dauphiness (Saturday, 5th November, 1757)
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - Chapter 9. Friedrich Marches For Silesia
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __Friedrich's Speech To His Generals (Parchwitz, 3d December, 1757). [From Retzow, I. 240-242 (Slightly Abridged)]
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - Chapter 10. Battle Of Leuthen
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - Chapter 11. Winter In Breslau: Third Campaign Opens
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __Of The English Subsidy
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __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
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - Chapter 12. Siege Of Olmutz
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - Chapter 13. Battle Of Zorndorf
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __Theseus And The Minotaur Over Again,--That Is To Say, Friedrich At Hand-Grips With Fermor And His Russians (25th August, 1758)
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - Chapter 14. Battle Of Hochkirch
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __Daun And The Reichs Army Invade Saxony, In Friedrich's Absence
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __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
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __What Actually Befell At Hochkirch (Saturday, 14th October, 1758)
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __Sequel Of Hochkirch; The Campaign Ends In A Way Surprising To An Attentive Public (22d October-20th November, 1758)
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __Friedrich Marches, Enigmatically, Not On Glogau, But On Reichenbach And Gorlitz; To Daun's Astonishment
   Book 18. Seven-Years War Rises To A Height.--1757-1759 - __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
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - Chapter 1. Preliminaries To A Fourth Campaign
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - __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)
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - Chapter 2. General Dohna; Dictator Wedell: Battle Of Zullichau
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - __Dictator Wedell Fights His Battle (Monday, 23d July, 1759), Without Success
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - Chapter 3. Friedrich In Person Attempts The Russian Problem; Not With Success
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - Chapter 4. Battle Of Kunersdorf
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - Chapter 5. Saxony Without Defence: Schmettau Surrenders Dresden
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - __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
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - __Austrian Reichs Army Does Its Crowning Feat (August 26th-September 4th): Diary Of What Is Called The "Siege" Of Dresden
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - Chapter 6. Prince Henri Makes A March Of Fifty Hours; The Russians Cannot Find Lodging In Silesia
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - __Daun, Soltikof And Company Again Have A Colloquy (Bautzen, September 15th); After Which Everybody Starts On His Special Course Of Action
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - __Friedrich Manages (September 24th-October 24th) To Get The Russians Sent Home; And Himself Falls Lamed With Gout
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - Chapter 7. Friedrich Reappears On The Field, And In Seven Days After Comes The Catastrophe Of Maxen
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - Chapter 8. Miscellanea In Winter-Quarters, 1759-1760
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - __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
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - __What Is Perpetual President Maupertuis Doing, All This While? Is He Still In Berlin; Or Where In The Universe Is He? Alas, Poor Maupertuis!
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - __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
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - __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
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - __Peace-Negotiations Hopeful To Friedrich All Through Winter; But The French Won't. Voltaire, And His Style Of Corresponding
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - __Voltaire On Friedrich, To Different Third-Parties, During This War
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - __Voltaire On Surrounding Objects, Chiefly On Maupertuis, And The Battles
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - __Friedrich To Voltaire, Before And During These Peace Negotiations
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - __Friedrich Has Sent Lord Marischal To Spain: Other Fond Hopes Of Friedrich's
   Book 19. Friedrich Like To Be Overwhelmed In The Seven-Years War--1759-1760 - 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
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - Chapter 1. Fifth Campaign Opens
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - Chapter 2. Friedrich Besieges Dresden
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __Capture Of Glatz (26th July, 1760)
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __ Dialogue Of Friedrich And Henri (From Their Private Correspondence: June 7th-July 29th, 1760)
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __Duke Ferdinand's Battle Of Warburg (31st July, 1760)
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - Chapter 3. Battle Of Liegnitz
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __Loudon Is Trying A Stroke-Of-Hand On Breslau, In The Glatz Fashion, In The Interim (July 30th-August 3d)
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __Friedrich On March, For The Third Time, To Rescue Silesia (August 1st-15th)
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __Battle, In The Neighborhood Of Liegnitz, Does Ensue (Friday Morning, 15th August, 1760)
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - Chapter 4. Daun In Wrestle With Friedrich In The Silesian Hills
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __The Russians Make A Raid On Berlin, For Relief Of Daun And Their Own Behoof (October 3d-12th, 1760)
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - Chapter 5. Battle Of Torgau
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __Fight Of Kloster Kampen (Night Of October 15th-16th); Wesel Not To Be Had By Duke Ferdinand
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - Chapter 6. Winter-Quarters 1760-1761
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __King Friedrich In The Apel House At Leipzig (8th December, 1760-17th March, 1761)
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __Interview With Herr Professor Gellert (Thursday, 18th December, 1760)
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __Dialogue With General Saldern (In The Apel House, Leipzig, 21st January, 1761)
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __There Are Some War-Movements During Winter; General Financiering Difficulties. Choiseul Proposes Peace
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - Chapter 7. Sixth Campaign Opens: Camp Of Bunzelwitz
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __Of Ferdinand's Battle Of Vellinghausen (15th-16th July); And The Campaign 1761
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __Third Siege Of Colberg
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - Chapter 8. Loudon Pounces Upon Schweidnitz One Night (Last Of September, 1761)
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - Chapter 9. Traitor Warkotsch
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - Chapter 10. Friedrich In Breslau; Has News From Petersburg
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __The Pitt Catastrophe: How The Peace-Negotiation Went Off By Explosion; How Pitt Withdrew (3d October, 1761), And There Came A Spanish W
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __Tiff Of Quarrel Between King And Henri (March-April, 1762)
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __Bright News From Petersburg (Certain, Jan. 19th); Which Grow Ever Brighter; And Become A Star-Of-Day For Friedrich
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - __What Colonel Hordt And The Others Saw At Petersburg (January-July, 1762)
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - Chapter 11. Seventh Campaign Opens
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - Chapter 12. Siege Of Schweidnitz: Seventh Campaign Ends
   Book 20. Friedrich Is Not To Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends--25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763 - Chapter 13. Peace Of Hubertsburg
Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - Chapter 1. Prefatory
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - Chapter 2. Repairing Of A Ruined Prussia
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __Landrath Nussler And The King (30th March-3d April, 1763)
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __Kriegsrath Roden And The King (6th-13th June, 1763)
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __Of Friedrich's New Excise System
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __The Neue Palais, In Sans-Souci Neighborhood, Is Founded And Finished (1763-1770)
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __"Obituary In Friedrich's Circle Till 1771"
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - Chapter 3. Troubles In Poland
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __King Of Poland Dies; And There Ensue Huge Anarchies In That Country
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __Ex-Lover Poniatowski Becomes King Of Poland (7th Sept. 1764), And Is Crowned Without Loss Of His Hair
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __For Several Years The Dissident Question Cannot Be Got Settled; Confederation Of Radom (23d June, 1767-5th March, 1768) Pushes It Into Settlement
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __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
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - Chapter 4. Partition Of Poland
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __First Interview Between Friedrich And Kaiser Joseph (Neisse, 25th-28th August, 1769)
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __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)
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __Russian-Turk War, First Two Campaigns
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __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
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __The Empress-Queen To Prince Kaunitz (Undated: Date Must Be Vienna, February, 1772)
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __What Friedrich Did With His New Acquisition
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - Chapter 5. A Chapter Of Miscellanies
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __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
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __Sister Ulrique, Queen-Dowager Of Sweden, Revisits Her Native Place (December, 1771-August, 1772)
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __Wilhelmina's Daughter, Elizabeth Frederike Sophie, Duchess Of Wurtemberg, Appears At Ferney (September, 1773)
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __No. 1. Dr Burney Has Sight Of Voltaire (July, 1770)
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __No. 2. A Reverend Mr. Sherlock Sees Voltaire, And Even Dines With Him (April, 1776)
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __General Or Fieldmarshal Conway, Direct From The London Circles, Attends One Of Friedrich's Reviews (August-September, 1774)
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __Exuberant Sherlock and 11n Other English Are Presented To Friedric (8th Oct 1777)
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - Chapter 6. The Bavarian War
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - Chapter 7. Miller Arnold's Lawsuit
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __"Protocol [Of December 11th, Title Already Given; [Supra, P. 439 N.] Docketing Adds], Which Is To Be Printed"
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - Chapter 8. The Furstenbund: Friedrich's Last Years
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __Prince De Ligne, After Ten Years, Sees Friedrich A Second Time; Time; And Reports What Was Said
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __How General Von Der Marwitz, In Early Boyhood, Saw Friedrich The Great Three Times (1782-1785)
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - __General Bouille, Home From His West-Indian Exploits, Visits Friedrich (August 5th-11th, 1784)
   Book 21. Afternoon And Evening Of Friedrich's Life--1763-1786 - Chapter 9. Friedrich's Last Illness And Death
Appendix
   Appendix - A Day With Friedrich