FREDERICK THE GREAT by Thomas Carlyle
Contents
BOOK XIX. FRIEDRICH LIKE TO BE OVERWHELMED IN THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR. 1759-1760.
Chapter I. PRELIMINARIES TO A FOURTH CAMPAIGN.
OF THE SMALL-WAR IN SPRING, 1759. THERE ARE FIVE DISRUPTIONS OF
Chapter II. GENERAL DOHNA; DICTATOR WEDELL: BATTLE OF ZULLICHAU.
DICTATOR WEDELL FIGHTS HIS BATTLE (Monday, 23d July, 1759), WITHOUT SUCCESS.
Chapter III. FRIEDRICH IN PERSON ATTEMPTS THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM; NOT WITH SUCCESS.
Chapter IV. BATTLE OF KUNERSDORF.
Chapter V. SAXONY WITHOUT DEFENCE: SCHMETTAU SURRENDERS DRESDEN.
THE "REICHS ARMY" 80 CALLED HAS ENTERED SAXONY, UNDER FINE
AUSTRIAN REICHS ARMY DOES ITS CROWNING FEAT (August
Chapter VI. PRINCE HENRI MAKES A MARCH OF FIFTY HOURS; THE RUSSIANS CANNOT FIND LODGING IN SILESIA.
DAUN, SOLTIKOF AND COMPANY AGAIN HAVE A COLLOQUY (Bautzen,
FRIEDRICH MANAGES (September 24th-October 24th) TO GET THE
Chapter VII. FRIEDRICH REAPPEARS ON THE FIELD, AND IN SEVEN DAYS AFTER COMES THE CATASTROPHE OF MAXEN.
Chapter VIII. MISCELLANEA IN WINTER-QUARTERS, 1759-1760.
SERENE HIGHNESS OF WURTEMBERG, AT FULDA (November 30th, 1759),
WHAT IS PERPETUAL PRESIDENT MAUPERTUIS DOING, ALL THIS WHILE?
GRAND FRENCH INVASION-SCHEME COMES ENTIRELY TO WRECK (Quiberon
FRIEDRICH, STRANGE TO SAY, PUBLISHES (March-June, 1760) AN
PEACE-NEGOTIATIONS HOPEFUL TO FRIEDRICH ALL THROUGH WINTER; BUT
VOLTAIRE ON FRIEDRICH, TO DIFFERENT THIRD-PARTIES, DURING THIS WAR.
VOLTAIRE ON SURROUNDING OBJECTS, CHIEFLY ON MAUPERTUIS, AND THE BATTLES.
FRIEDRICH TO VOLTAIRE, BEFORE AND DURING THESE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
FRIEDRICH HAS SENT LORD MARISCHAL TO SPAIN: OTHER FOND HOPES OF FRIEDRICH'S.
Chapter IX. PRELIMINARIES TO A FIFTH CAMPAIGN.
