_ Book XVII. THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR: FIRST CAMPAIGN.--1756-1757
       Chapter III. FRENCH-ENGLISH WAR BREAKS OUT
       The French, in reality a good deal astonished at the Prussian-Britannic Treaty, affected to take it easy: "Treaty for Neutrality of Germany?" said they: "Very good indeed. Perhaps there are places nearer us, where our troops can be employed to more advantage!" [Their "Declaration" on it (Adelung, vii. 613.)]--hinting vocally, as henceforth their silent procedures, their diligence in the dockyards, moving of troops coastward and the like, still more clearly did, That an Invasion of England itself was the thing next to be expected.
       England and France are, by this time, alike fiercely determined on War; but their states of preparation are very different. The French have War-ships again, not to mention Armies which they always have; some skilful Admirals withal,--La Gallisonniere, our old Canada friend, is one, very busy at present;--and mean to try seriously the Question of Sea-Supremacy once more. If an Invasion did chance to land, the state of England would be found handy beyond hope! How many fighting regiments England has, I need not inquire, nor with what strategic virtue they would go to work;--enough to mention the singular fact (recently true, and still, I perceive, too like the truth), That of all their regiments, "only Three are in this Country", or have Colonels even nominated. Incredible; but certain. And the interesting point is, his Grace of Newcastle dare not have Colonels, still less higher Officers nominated; because Royal Highness of Cumberland would have the naming of them, and they would be enemies to his Grace. [Walpole, George the Second, ii. 19 (date, "March 25th, 1755;" and how long after, is not said: but see Pitt's Speeches, ib., all through 1756, and farther).] In such posture stands the Envy of surrounding Nations at this moment.
       "Hire Hessians," cry they; "hire Hanoverians; if France land on us, we are undone!"--and continue their Parliamentary Eloquences in a most distressful manner. "Apply to the Dutch, at any rate, for their 6,000 as per Treaty", cries everybody. Which is done. But the Dutch piteously wring their hands: "Dare not, your Majesty; how dare we, for France and our neglected Barrier! Oh, generous Majesty, excuse us!"--and the generous Majesty has to do it; and leave the Dutch in peace, this time. Hessians, Hanoverians, after eloquence enough, are at last got sent for, to guard us against this terrible Invasion: about 10,000 of each kind; and do land,--the native populations very sulky on them ("We won't billet you, not we; build huts, and be--!"), with much Parliamentary and Newspaper Commentary going on, of a distressful nature. "Saturday, 15th May, 1756, Hessians disembark at Southampton; obliged to pitch Camp in the neighborhood: Friday, 21st May, the Hanoverians, at Chatham, who hut themselves Canterbury way;"--and have (what is the sum-total of their achievements in this Country) a case of shoplifting, "pocket-handkerchief, across the counter, in open day;" one case (or what seemed to be one, but was not); ["At Maidstone, 13th Septemher, 1756;" Hanoverian soldier, purchasing a handkerchief, imagines he has purchased two (not yet clipt asunder), haberdasher and he having no language in common: Gentleman's Magazine, for 1756, pp. 259, 448, &c.; Walpole, SAEPIUS.] "and the fellow not to be tried by us for it!" which enrages the constitutional heart. Alas, my heavy-laden constitutional heart; but what can we do? These drilled louts will guard us, should this terrible Invasion land. And indeed, about three weeks BEFORE these louts arrived, the terrible Invasion had declared itself to have been altogether a feint; and had lifted anchor, quite in the opposite direction, on an errand we shall hear of soon!
       About the same date, I observe, "the first regiment of Footguards practising the Prussian drill-exercise in Hyde Park;" and hope his Grace of Newcastle and the Hero of Culloden (immortal Hero, and aiming high in Politics at this time) will, at least, have fallen upon some method of getting Colonels nominated. But the wide-weltering chaos of platitudes, agitated by hysterical imbecilities, regulating England in this great crisis, fills the constitutional mind with sorrow; and indeed is definable, once more, as amazing! England is a stubborn Country; but it was not by procedures of the Cumberland-Newcastle kind that England, and her Colonies, and Sea-and-Land Kingdoms, was built together; nor by these, except miracle intervene, that she can stand long against stress! Looking at the dismal matter from this distance, there is visible to me in the foggy heart of it one lucent element, and pretty much one only; the individual named William Pitt, as I have read him: if by miracle that royal soul could, even for a time, get to something of Kingship there? Courage; miracles do happen, let us hope!--This is whitherward the grand Invasion had gone:--
       TOULON, 10th APRIL, 1756. La Gallisonniere, our old Canadian friend, a crooked little man of great faculty, who has been busy in the dockyards lately, weighs anchor from Toulon; "12 sail of the line, 5 frigates and above 100 transport-ships;" with the grand Invasion-of-England Armament on board: 16,000 picked troops, complete in all points, Marechal Duc de Richelieu commanding. [Adelung, viii. 70.] Weighs anchor; and, singular to see, steers, not for England, and the Hessian-Hanover Defenders (who would have been in such excellent time); but direct for Minorca, as the surer thing! Will seize Minorca; a so-called inexpugnable Possession of the English,--Key of their Mediterranean Supremacies;--really inexpugnable enough; but which lies in the usual dilapidated state, though by chance with a courageous old Governor in it, who will not surrender quite at once.
       APRIL 18th, La Gallisonniere disembarks his Richelieu with a Sixteen Thousand, unopposed at Port-Mahon, or Fort St. Philip, in Minorca; who instantly commences Siege there. To the astonishment of England and his Grace of Newcastle who, except old Governor Blakeney, much in dilapidation ("wooden platforms rotten," "batteries out of repair," and so on), have nothing ready for Richelieu in that quarter. The story of Minorca; and the furious humors and tragic consummations that arose on it, being still well known, we will give the dates only.
       FORT ST. PHILIP, APRIL 18th-MAY 20th. For a month, Richelieu, skilful in tickling the French troops, has been besieging, in a high and grandiose way; La Gallisonniere vigilantly cruising; old Blakeney, in spite of the rotten platforms, vigorously holding out; when--May 19th, La Gallisonniere descries an English fleet in the distance; indisputably an English fleet; and clears his decks for a serious Affair just coming. THURSDAY, 20th MAY, Admiral Byng accordingly (for it is he, son of that old seaworthy Byng, who once "blew out" a minatory Spanish Fleet and "an absurd Flame of War" in the Straits of Messina, and was made Lord Torrington in consequence,--happily now dead)--Admiral Byng does come on; and gains himself a name badly memorable ever since. Attacks La Gallisonniere, in a wide-lying, languid, hovering, uncertain manner:--"Far too weak" he says; "much disprovided, destitute, by blame of Ministry and of everybody" (though about the strength of La Gallisonniere, after all);--is almost rather beaten by La Gallisonniere; does not in the least, beat him to the right degree:--and sheers off: in the night-time, straight for Gibraltar again. To La Gallisonniere's surprise, it is said; no doubt to old Blakeney and his poor Garrison's, left so, to their rotten platforms and their own shifts.
       Blakeney and Garrison stood to their guns in a manful manner, for above a month longer; day after day, week after week, looking over the horizon for some Byng or some relief appearing, to no purpose! JUNE 14th, there are three available breaches; the walls, however, are very sheer (a Fortress hewn in the rock): Richelieu scanning them dubiously, and battering his best, for about a fortnight more, is ineffectual on Blakeney.
       JUNE 27th, Richelieu, taking his measures well, tickling French honor well, has determined on storm. Richelieu, giving order of the day, "Whosoever of you is found drunk shall NOT be of the storm-party" (which produced such a teetotalism as nothing else had done),--storms, that night, with extreme audacity. The Place has to capitulate: glorious victory; honorable defence: and Minorca gone.
       And England is risen to a mere smoky whirlwind, of rage, sorrow and darkness, against Byng and others. Smoky darkness, getting streaked with dangerous fire. "Tried?" said his Grace of Newcastle to the City Deputation: "Oh indeed he shall be tried immediately; he shall be hanged directly!"--assure yourselves of that. [Walpole, ii. 231: Details of the Siege, ib. 218-225; in Gentleman's Magazine, xxvi. 256, 312-313, 358; in Adelung, vii.; &c. &c.] And Byng's effigy was burnt all over England. And mobs attempt to burn his Seat and Park; and satires and caricatures and firebrands are coming out: and the poor Constitutional Country is bent on applying surgery, if it but know how. Surgery to such indisputable abominations was certainly desirable. The new Relief Squadron, which had been despatched by Majesty's Ministry, was too late for Blakeney, but did bring home a superseded Byng.
       SPITHEAD, TUESDAY, 27th JULY, The superseded Byng arrives; is punctually arrested, on arriving: "Him we will hang directly:--is there anything else we can try [except, perhaps, it were hanging of ourselves, and our fine methods of procedure], by way of remedying you?"--War against France, now a pretty plain thing, had been "declared," 17th May (French counter-declaring, 9th June): and, under a Duke of Newcastle and a Hero of Culloden, not even pulling one way, but two ways; and a Talking-Apparatus full of discords at this time, and pulling who shall say how many ways,--the prospects of carrying on said War are none of the best. Lord Loudon, a General without skill, and commanding, as Pitt declares, "a scroll of Paper hitherto" (a good few thousands marked on it, and perhaps their Colonels even named), is about going for America; by no means yet gone, a long way from gone: and, if the Laws of Nature be suspended--Enough of all that! _

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