_ BOOK XVI. THE TEN YEARS OF PEACE.--1746-1756
       (Chapter II cont.)
       __WAR-PASSAGES IN 1747
       The War, since Friedrich got out of it, does not abate in animosity, nor want for bloodshed, battle and sieging; but offers little now memorable. March 18th, 1747, a ghastly Phantasm of a Congress, "Congress of Breda," which had for some months been attempting Peace, and was never able to get into conference, or sit in its chairs except for moments, flew away altogether; [In September, 1746, had got together; but would not take life, on trying and again trying, and fell forgotten: February, 1747, again gleams up into hope: March 18th and the following days, vanishes for good (ADELUNG, v. 50; vi. 6, 62).] and left the War perhaps angrier than ever, more hopelessly stupid than ever. Except, indeed, that resources are failing; money running low in France, Parlements beginning to murmur, and among the Population generally a feeling that glory is excellent, but will not make the national pot boil. Perhaps all this will be more effective than Congresses of Breda? Here are the few Notes worth giving:
       APRIL 23d-30th, 1747, THE FRENCH INVADE HOLLAND; WHEREUPON, SUDDENLY, A STADTHOLDER THERE. "After Fontenoy there has been much sieging and capturing in that Netherlands Country, a series of successes gloriously delightful to Marechal de Saxe and the French Nation: likewise (in bar of said sieging, in futile attempt to bar it) a Battle of Roucoux, October, 1746; with victory, or quasi-victory, to Saxe, at least with prostration to the opposite part."
       And farther on, there is a Battle of Lauffeld coming, 2d July, 1747; with similar results; frustration evident, retreat evident, victory not much to speak of. And in this gloriously delightful manner Saxe and the French Nation have proceeded, till in fact the Netherlands Territory with all strongholds, except Maestricht alone, was theirs,--and they decided on attacking the Dutch Republic itself. And (17th April, 1747) actually broke in upon the frontier Fortresses of Zealand; found the same dry-rotten everywhere; and took them, Fortress after Fortress, at the rate of a cannon salvo each: 'Ye magnanimous Dutch, see what you have got by not sitting still, as recommended!' To the horror and terror of the poor Zealanders and general Dutch Population. Who shrieked to England for help;--and were, on the very instant, furnished with a modicum of Seventy-fours (Dutch Courier returning by the same); which landed the Courier April 23d, and put Walcheren in a state of security. [Adelung, vi. 105, 125-134.]
       "Whereupon the Dutch Population turned round on its Governors, with a growl of indignation, spreading ever wider, waxing ever higher: 'Scandalous laggards, is this your mode of governing a free Republic? Freedom to let the State go to dry-rot, and become the laughing-stock of mankind. To provide for your own paltry kindred in the State-employments; to palaver grandly with all comers; and publish melodious Despatches of Van Hoey? Had not Britannic Majesty, for his dear Daughter's sake, come to the rescue in this crisis, where had we been? We demand a Stadtholder again; our glorious Nassau Orange, to keep some bridle on you!' And actually, in this way, Populus and Plebs, by general turning out into the streets, in a gloomily indignant manner, which threatens to become vociferous and dangerous,--cowed the Heads of the Republic into choosing the said Prince, with Princess and Family, as Stadtholder, High-Admiral, High-Everything and Supreme of the Republic. Hereditary, no less, and punctually perpetual; Princess and Family to share in it. In which happy state (ripened into Kingship latterly) they continue to this day. A result painfully surprising to Most Christian Majesty; gratifying to Britannic proportionately, or more;--and indeed beneficial towards abating dry-rot and melodious palaver in that poor Land of the Free. Consummated, by popular outbreak of vociferation, in the different Provinces, in about a week from April 23d, when those helpful Seventy-fours hove in sight. Stadtholdership had been in abeyance for forty-five years. [Since our Dutch William's death, 1702.] The new Stadtholder did his best; could not, in the short life granted him, do nearly enough.--Next year there was a SECOND Dutch outbreak, or general turning into the streets; of much more violent character; in regard to glaringly unjust Excises and Taxations, and to 'instant dismissal of your Excise-Farmers,' as the special first item. [Adelung, vi. 364 et seq.; Raumer, 182-193 ("March-September, 1748"); or, in--Chesterfield's Works,--Dayrolles's Letters to Chesterfield: somewhat unintelligent and unintelligible, both Raumer and he.] Which salutary object being accomplished (new Stadtholder well aiding, in a valiant and judicious manner), there has no third dose of that dangerous remedy been needed since.
       "JULY 19th, FATE OF CHEVALIER DE BELLEISLE. At the Fortress of Exilles, in one of those Passes of the Savoy Alps,--Pass of Col di Sieta, memorable to the French Soldier ever since,--there occurred a lamentable thing;" doubtless much talked of at Sceaux while Voltaire was there. "The Revolt of Genoa (popular outburst, and expulsion of our poor friend Botta and his Austrians, then a famous thing, and a rarer than now) having suddenly recalled the victorious General Browne from his Siege of Antibes and Invasion of Provence,--Marechal Duc de Belleisle, well reinforced and now become 'Army of Italy' in general, followed steadfastly for 'Defence of Genoa' against indignant Botta, Browne and Company. For defence of Genoa; nay for attack on Turin, which would have been 'defence' in Genoa and everywhere,--had the captious Spaniard consented to co-operate. Captious Spaniard would not; Couriers to Madrid, to Paris thereupon, and much time lost;--till, at the eleventh hour, came consent from Paris, 'Try it by yourself, then!' Belleisle tries it; at least his Brother does. His Brother, the Chevalier, is to force that Pass of Exilles; a terrible fiery business, but the backbone of the whole adventure: in which, if the Chevalier can succeed, he too is to be Marechal de France. Forward, therefore, climb the Alpine stairs again; snatch me that Fort of Exilles.
       "And so, July 19th, 1747, the Chevalier comes in sight of the Place; scans a little the frowning buttresses, bristly with guns; the dumb Alps, to right and left, looking down on him and it. Chevalier de Belleisle judges that, however difficult, it can and must be possible to French valor; and storms in upon it, huge and furious (20,000, or if needful 30,000);--but is torn into mere wreck, and hideous recoil; rallies, snatches a standard, 'We must take it or die,'--and dies, does not take it; falls shot on the rampart, 'pulling at the palisades with his own hands,' nay some say 'with his teeth,' when the last moments came. Within one hour, he has lost 4,000 men; and himself and his Brother's Enterprise lie ended there. [Voltaire, xxv. 221 et seq. (SIECLE DE LOUIS QUINZE, c. 22); Adelung, vi 174.] Fancy his poor Brother's feelings, who much loved him! The discords about War-matters (TRACASSERIES DE L'ARMEE) were a topic at Sceaux lately, as De Staal intimated. 'Why starve our Italian Enterprises; heaping every resource upon the Netherlands and Saxe?' Diligent Defence of Genoa (chiefly by flourishing of swords on the part of France, for the Austrians were not yet ready) is henceforth all the Italian War there is; and this explosion at Exilles may fitly be finis to it here. Let us only say that Infant Philip did, when the Peace came, get a bit of Apanage (Parma and Piacenza or some such thing, contemptibly small to the Maternal heart), and that all things else lapsed to their pristine state, MINUS only the waste and ruin there had been."
       JULY 12th-SEPTEMBER 18th: SIEGE OF THE CHIEF DUTCH FORTRESS. "Unexpected Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom; two months of intense excitement to the Dutch Patriots and Cause-of-Liberty Gazetteers, as indifferent and totally dead as it has now become. Marechal de Saxe, after his victory at Lauffeld, 2d July, did not besiege Maestricht, as had been the universal expectation; but shot off an efficient lieutenant of his, one Lowendahl, in due force, privately ready, to overwhelm Bergen-op-Zoom with sudden Siege, while he himself lay between the beaten enemy and it. Bergen is the heart, of Holland, key of the Scheld, and quite otherwise important than Maestricht. 'Coehorn's masterpiece!' exclaim the Gazetteers; 'Impregnable, you may depend!' 'We shall see,' answered Saxe, answered Lowendahl the Dane (who also became Marechal by this business); and after a great deal of furious assaulting and battering, took the Place September 18th, before daylight," by a kind of surprisal or quasi-storm;--"the Commandant, one Cronstrom, a brave old Swede, age towards ninety, not being of very wakeful nature! 'Did as well as could be expected of him,' said the Court-Martial sitting on his case, and forbore to shoot the poor old man."
       [Adelung, vi. 184, 206;--"for Cronstrom," if any one is curious, "see Schlotzer,--Schwedische Biographie,--ii. 252 (in voce)."] A sore stroke, this of Bergen, to Britannic Majesty and the Friends of Liberty; who nevertheless refuse to be discouraged."
       DECEMBER 25th, RUSSIANS IN BEHALF OF HUMAN LIBERTY. "March of 36,000 Russians from the City of Moscow, this day; on a very long journey, in the hoary Christmas weather! Most, Christian Majesty is ruinously short of money; Britannic Majesty has still credit, and a voting Parliament, but, owing to French influence on the Continent, can get no recruits to hire. Gradually driven upon Russia, in such stress, Britannic Majesty has this year hired for himself a 35,000 Russians; 30,000 regular foot; 4,000 ditto horse, and 1,000 Cossacks;--uncommonly cheap, only 150,000 pounds the lot, not, 4 pounds per head by the year. And, in spite of many difficulties and hagglings, they actually get on march, from Moscow, 25th December, 1747; and creep on, all Winter, through the frozen peats wildernesses, through Lithuania, Poland, towards Bohmen, Mahren: are to appear in the Rhine Countries, joined by certain Austrians; and astonish mankind next Spring. Their Captain is one Repnin, Prince Repnin, afterwards famous enough in those Polish Countries;"--which is now the one point interesting to us in the thing.
       "Their Captain WAS, first, to be Lacy, old Marshal Lacy; then, failing Lacy, 'Why not General Keith?'--but proves to be Repnin, after much hustling and intriguing:" Repnin, not Keith, that is the interesting point.
       "Such march of the Russians, on behalf of Human Liberty, in pay of Britannic Majesty, is a surprising fact; and considerably discomposes the French. Who bestir themselves in Sweden and elsewhere against Russia and it: with no result,--except perhaps the incidental one, of getting our esteemed old friend Guy Dickens, now Sir Guy, dismissed from Stockholm, and we hope put on half-pay on his return home." [Adelung, vi. 250, 302:--Sir Guy, not yet invalided, "went to Russia," and other errands.] _

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