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In German memory, Frederick became a great national icon and many Germans said he was the greatest monarch in modern history. These claims particularly were popular in the 19th century. [ 315 ] For example, German historians often made him the romantic model of a glorified warrior, praising his leadership, administrative efficiency, devotion to ...
Enlightened absolutism is the theme of an essay by Frederick the Great, who ruled Prussia from 1740 to 1786, defending this system of government. [5] When the prominent French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire fell out of favor in France, he eagerly accepted Frederick's invitation to live at his palace. He believed that an enlightened monarchy ...
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia during the alliance. He was the nephew of George II and first cousin once removed of George III , the respective sovereigns of Great Britain and Hanover. The Anglo-Prussian Alliance was a military alliance created by the Westminster Convention between Great Britain and Prussia that lasted formally between ...
During the war, King Frederick II of Prussia, better known to history as Frederick the Great, had made diplomatic overtures with the Ottoman Sultan, Mustafa III for years, up to the outbreak of war, to bring the empire into the war on the side of Prussia, Great Britain, and their other allies but he was unsuccessful.
The Habsburg Empire: A New History. Harvard University Press. Kugler, Franz Theodor (1845) [1840]. "The Opening of the Silesian War". History of Frederick the Great: Comprehending a Complete History of the Silesian Campaigns and the Seven Years' War. Translated by Moriarty, Edward Aubrey. Illustrated by Menzel, Adolph. London: Henry G. Bohn.
Frederick the Great, as an Author, Soldier, King and Man, well deserves to have his History written; better perhaps than Charles XII, whose Biography by Voltaire has always seemed to me one of the most delightful Books. Let your Publishers offer me Three hundred pounds, and time to heat the historico-biographical crucible and fill it and fuse ...
Frederick of Castile, in Spanish Fadrique (1223–1277), was a younger son of King Ferdinand III of Castile by his first wife, Elisabeth of Hohenstaufen. He was born in Guadalajara .
Frederick the Fair c. 1289 –1330: Leopold I Duke of Austria 1290–1326: Albert II Duke of Austria 1298–1358: Henry the Friendly 1299–1327: Otto Duke of Austria 1301–1339: John Parricida c. 1290 –1312/1313 Albertinian line Leopoldian line: Rudolf IV Duke of Austria 1339–1365: Frederick III 1347–1362: Albert III Duke of Austria ...