FREDERICK THE GREAT By Thomas Carlyle Volume XII.
Contents
Chapter I. OF SCHLESIEN, OR SILESIA.
HISTORICAL EPOCHS OF SCHLESIEN; AFTER THE QUADS AND MARCHMEN.
Chapter II. FRIEDRICH MARCHES ON GLOGAU.
FRIEDRICH AT CROSSEN, AND STILL IN HIS OWN TERRITORY, 14th-16th DECEMBER; STEPS INTO SCHLESIEN.
WHAT GLOGAU, AND THE GOVERNMENT AT BRESLAU, DID UPON IT.
MARCH TO WEICHAU (SATURDAY, 17th, AND STAY SUNDAY THERE); TO
Chapter III. PROBLEM OF GLOGAU.
WHAT BERLIN IS SAYING; WHAT FRIEDRICH IS THINKING.
JORDAN TO THE KING (successively from Berlin, somewhat abridged.)
SCHWERIN AT LIEGNITZ; FRIEDRICH HUSHES UP THE GLOGAU PROBLEM, AND STARTS WITH HIS BEST SPEED FOR BRESLAU.
Chapter IV. BRESLAU UNDER SOFT PRESSURE.
KING ENTERS BRESLAW; STAYS THERE, GRACIOUS AND VIGILANT, FOUR DAYS (Jan. 2d-6th, 1741).
Chapter V. FRIEDRICH PUSHES FORWARD TOWARDS BRIEG AND NEISSE.
FRIEDRICH COMES ACROSS TO OTTMACHAU; SITS THERE, IN SURVEY OF NEISSE, TILL HIS CANNON COME.
Chapter VI. NEISSE IS BOMBARDED.
BROWNE VANISHES IN A SLIGHT FLASH OF FIRE.
Chapter VII. AT VERSAILLES, THE MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY
OF BELLEISLE AND HIS PLANS.
Chapter VIII. PHENOMENA IN PETERSBURG.
Chapter IX. FRIEDRICH RETURNS TO SILESIA.
SKIRMISH OF BAUMGARTEN, 27th FEBRUARY, 1741.
ASPECTS OF BRESLAU.
AUSTRIA IS STANDING TO ARMS.
THE YOUNG DESSAUER CAPTURES GLOGAU (MARCH 9th); THE OLD
FRIEDRICH TAKES THE FIELD, WITH SOME POMP; GOES INTO THE MOUNTAINS, BUT COMES FAST BACK.
Chapter X. BATTLE OF MOLLWITZ.
OF FRIEDRICH'S DISAPPEARANCE INTO FAIRYLAND, IN THE INTERIM; AND OF MAUPERTUIS'S SIMILAR ADVENTURE.
Chapter XI. THE BURSTING FORTH OF BEDLAMS: BELLEISLE AND THE BREAKERS OF PRAGMATIC SANCTION.
WHO WAS TO BLAME FOR THE AUSTRIAN-SUCCESSION WAR?
HOW BELLEISLE MADE VISIT TO TEUTSCHLAND; AND THERE WAS NO FIT HENRY THE FOWLER TO WELCOME HIM.
DOWNBREAK OF PRAGMATIC SANCTION; MANNER OF THE CHIEF ARTISTS IN HANDLING THEIR COVENANTS.
CONCERNING THE IMPERIAL ELECTION (Kaiserwahl) THAT IS TO BE: CANDIDATES FOR KAISERSHIP.
TEUTSCHLAND TO BE CARVED INTO SOMETHING OF SYMMETRY, SHOULD THE BELLEISLE ENTERPRISES SUCCEED.
BELLEISLE ON VISIT TO FRIEDRICH; SEES FRIEDRICH BESIEGE BRIEG, WITH EFFECT.
Chapter XII. SORROWS OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY.
No. 1. SNATCH OF PARLIAMENTARY ELOQUENCE BY MR. VINER (19th April, 1741).
No. 2. CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORIAN ON THE PHENOMENON OF WALPOLE IN ENGLAND.
No. 3. OF THE SPANISH WAR, OR THE JENKINS'S-EAR QUESTION.
SUCCINCT HISTORY OF THE SPANISH WAR, WHICH BEGAN IN 1739; AND ENDED WHEN DID IT END?
Chapter XIII. SMALL-WAR: FIRST EMERGENCE OF ZIETHEN THE HUSSAR GENERAL INTO NOTICE.
