History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 19
History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 19
by Thomas Carlyle
BOOK XIX.
FRIEDRICH LIKE TO BE OVERWHELMED IN
THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR.
1759-1760.
Chapter I.
PRELIMINARIES TO A FOURTH CAMPAIGN.
The posting of the Five Armies this Winter--Five of them in Germany, not counting the Russians, who have vanished to Cimmeria over the horizon, for their months of rest--is something wonderful, and strikes the picturesque imagination. Such a Chain of Posts, for length, if fo ...