History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 17
History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 17
by Thomas Carlyle
THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR: FIRST CAMPAIGN.
1756-1757.
Chapter I.
WHAT FRIEDRICH HAD READ IN THE MENZEL DOCUMENTS.
The ill-informed world, entirely unaware of what Friedrich had been studying and ascertaining, to his bitter sorrow, for four years past, was extremely astonished at the part he took in those French- English troubles; extremely provoked at his breaking out again into a Third Silesian War, greater than ...