FREDERICK THE GREAT by Thomas Carlyle
Contents
BOOK XVIII. SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT. 1757-1759.
Chapter I. THE CAMPAIGN OPENS.
REICH'S THUNDER, SLIGHT SURVEY OF IT; WITH QUESTION, WHITHERWARD, IF ANY-WHITHER.
FRIEDRICH SUDDENLY MARCHES ON PRAG.
Chapter II. BATTLE OF PRAG.
Chapter III. PRAG CANNOT BE GOT AT ONCE.
COLONEL MAYER WITH HIS "FREE-CORPS" PARTY MAKES A VISIT, OF DIDACTIC NATURE, TO THE REICH.
OF THE SINGULAR QUASI-BEWITCHED CONDITION OF ENGLAND; AND WHAT
PHENOMENA OF PRAG SIEGE: PRAG SIEGE IS INTERRUPTED.
Chapter IV. BATTLE OF KOLIN.
THE MARIA-THERESA ORDER, NEW KNIGHTHOOD FOR AUSTRIA.
Chapter V. FRIEDRICH AT LEITMERITZ, HIS WORLD OF ENEMIES COMING ON.
PRINCE AUGUST WILHELM FINDS A BAD PROBLEM AT JUNG-BUNZLAU; AND
Chapter VI. DEATH OF WINTERFELD.
Chapter VII. FRIEDRICH IN THURINGEN, HIS WORLD OF ENEMIES ALL COME.
I. FRIEDRICH'S MARCH TO ERFURT FROM DRESDEN (31st August-13th September, 1757).
II. THE SOUBISE HILDBURGHAUSEN PEOPLE TAKE INTO THE HILLS;
LAMENTATION-PSALMS OF FRIEDRICH.
III. RUMOR OF AN INROAD ON BERLIN SUDDENLY SETS FRIEDRICH ON
SCENE AT REGENSBURG IN THE INTERIM.
BOOK XVIII (CONTINUED) SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT. 1757-1759.
Chapter VIII. BATTLE OF ROSSBACH.
CATASTROPHE OF DAUPHINESS (Saturday, 5th November, 1757).
Chapter IX. FRIEDRICH MARCHES FOR SILESIA.
FRIEDRICH'S SPEECH TO HIS GENERALS (Parchwitz, 3d December, 1757). [From
Chapter X. BATTLE OF LEUTHEN.
Chapter XI. WINTER IN BRESLAU: THIRD CAMPAIGN OPENS.
OF THE ENGLISH SUBSIDY.
FRIEDRICH, AS INDEED PITT'S PEOPLE AND OTHERS HAVE DONE, TAKES
Chapter XII. SIEGE OF OLMUTZ.
Chapter XIII. BATTLE OF ZORNDORF.
THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR OVER AGAIN, THAT IS TO SAY, FRIEDRICH
Chapter XIV. BATTLE OF HOCHKIRCH.
DAUN AND THE REICHS ARMY INVADE SAXONY, IN FRIEDRICH'S ABSENCE.
FRIEDRICH INTERVENING, DAUN DRAWS BACK; INTRENCHES HIMSELF IN
WHAT ACTUALLY BEFELL AT HOCHKIRCH (Saturday, 14th October, 1758).
SEQUEL OF HOCHKIRCH; THE CAMPAIGN ENDS IN A WAY SURPRISING TO
FRIEDRICH MARCHES, ENIGMATICALLY, NOT ON GLOGAU, BUT ON REICHENBACH AND GORLITZ; TO DAUN'S ASTONISHMENT.
FELDMARSCHALL DAUN AND THE REICHS ARMY TRY SOME SIEGE OF DRESDEN (9th-16th November).
