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Frederick William's reforms left his son Frederick with the most formidable army in Europe, which Frederick used to increase Prussia's power. Although a highly effective ruler, Frederick William had a perpetually short temper which sometimes drove him to physically attack servants (or even his own children) with a cane at the slightest ...
Charles Frederick Williams (4 May 1838 – 9 February 1904), was a Scottish-Irish writer, journalist, and war correspondent. ... His son, journalist Fred Williams, ...
Prince Frederick Charles Alexander of Prussia (German: Friedrich Karl Alexander; 29 June 1801 – 21 January 1883) was a younger son of Frederick William III of Prussia.He served as a Prussian general for much of his adult life and became the first Herrenmeister (Grand Master) of the Order of Saint John after its restoration as a chivalric order. [1]
Frederick William IV (German: Friedrich Wilhelm IV.; 15 October 1795 [3] – 2 January 1861), the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, was King of Prussia from 7 June 1840 until his death on 2 January 1861.
Portrait of a young Frederick William. Born at Lüben (after 1945 Lubin, Poland) [1] on 27 September 1781, Frederick William (known as "Fritz" until the beginning of his reign) was the son of Duke Frederick William Charles of Württemberg (1754–1816) and his wife, Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764–1788).
Frederick William was born in Berlin on 25 September 1744, the eldest son of the Prussian Prince Augustus William of Prussia (1722–1758) and Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Initially, Frederick William was second in line to the Prussian throne after his father.
Yui Mok/WPA Pool/Getty Images. Immediately afterwards, the newly-crowned king was seen mouthing, “Thank you, William,” in his son's ear. And the tender father-son moment was captured in ...
Frederick A. Williams (March 3, 1869 – July 31, 1942) was an American pianist and composer from Cleveland, Ohio. [1] [2] Williams was born in Oberlin, Ohio, the son of Charles Williams and Martha Maria Sabin Williams. [3] [4] Williams headed the department of piano and theory at the Cleveland School of Music. [5]