INDEX

A

Agriculture, Prussian, 309 ff.

Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), 129;

Peace of (1748), 156, 157, 194

Alembert, d’, 160, 337, 339, 352

Algarotti, 82, 160

Amelia, Princess, 31

Anhalt-Dessau, Leopold, Prince of (“the Old Dessauer”), 78, 82, 109, 116, 126, 140, 143, 150 ff.

Anhalt-Dessau, Leopold, Prince of (“the Young Dessauer”), 104, 105, 109, 115, 262

Anne of Russia, 44, 91

Ansbach, Margravine of, 81

Anti-Machiavel, 53

Archenholtz, cited, 289

Armed Neutrality of 1780, 339

Army, Prussian, 15, 19, 22, 66, 78, 81, 104, 109, 114, 117, 126, 147, 150, 165 ff., 188, 203, 221, 243, 247, 267, 271, 289, 293, 302 ff., 336, 344, 351

Augustus III., Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, 66, 67, 130, 138, 148, 151, 153, 204, 206 ff., 324, 352

Augustus William, Prince, 112, 203, 228, 230 ff., 251, 264

B

Baireuth, 81, 82, 135

Baireuth, Margrave of, 41, 43, 82

Bank, Prussian, 318

Barberina, 131, 132

Baumgarten, 109

Bautzen, 230, 232

Bavaria, in 1778, 333, 334;

in 1785, 342, 343

Bavarian Succession, war of the, 334 ff.

Belleisle, Marshal, 118, 121, 139

Berg, 61 ff., 76, 85, 98 Berlin, 28, 35, 80, 98, 129, 150, 171, 173, 233, 290, 307, 314, 345, 348;

treaty of (1728), 62;

treaty of (1742), 127, 136, 149, 153

Bevern, Duke of, 212, 219, 220, 224, 232, 238

Bismarck, 3, 94, 350

Black Eagle, Order of the, 20

Bohemia, campaign in (1778), 334 ff.

Book of Rights, Prussian, 337

Borcke, 100, 102, 205

Botta, Marquis di, 98–100

Breslau, 79, 90, 103, 105, 118, 119, 121, 145, 239 ff., 252, 285

Brieg, 104, 109, 116, 121

Broglie, Marshal, 160

Browne, 207, 216

Brühl, Count, 150, 151, 204

Brünn, 125

Bunzelwitz, 294

Bureaucracy, Prussian, 356

Burkersdorf, battle of, 298

Bute, Lord, 295, 299, 323

C

Camas, Madame de, 29, 51, 161, 305

Carlyle, Thomas, cited, 15, 20, 24, 47, 79, 104, 107, 113, 130, 143, 158, 172, 200, 306, 345

Carteret, 125, 135

Catherine II. of Russia, 298, 324, 326, 331, 339, 340, 342, 353

Catt, M. de, 74, 75

Charles I. of England, 10

Charles V., Emperor, 56–58

Charles VI., Emperor, 58 ff., 62, 66, 70, 75, 88, 96, 103, 181

Charles XII. of Sweden, 65, 278

Charles Albert of Bavaria (Emperor Charles VII.), 118, 123, 132, 141

Charles, Prince, of Lorraine, 125, 126, 142, 144, 145, 214 ff., 228, 232 ff., 238, 239, 241 ff.

Charles of Brandenburg-Schwedt, 259

Charlotte of Brunswick, 347

Chotusitz (battle also called Czaslau), 126, 127, 147

Cleve, or Cleves, 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 63, 71, 79, 80, 98, 171

Cocceji, 176, 181

Codex Fridericianus, 176

Coffee in Prussia, 319

Colberg, 71, 294

Colbert, 70

Commerce, Prussian, 316 ff.

Contribution, the, 165, 178

Cornwallis, 345

Cosel, 145

Curland, or Courland, 68

Courland, Duke of, 346

Cumberland, Duke of, 232

Cüstrin, 34, 37, 41, 44, 46, 73, 81, 90, 257 ff.

D

Danzig, or Dantsic, 66, 68, 73, 317, 327, 330

Daun, 215, 218 ff., 232, 247, 248, 256, 262 ff., 266 ff., 277 ff., 283, 285 ff., 290 ff., 298

Dessauer, the Old and the Young. See Anhalt-Dessau.

Dettingen, 135, 144, 194

Dohna, 255, 259

Domstädtl, 256

Dresden, 151 ff., 262, 264, 276, 284, 293;

Treaty of (1745), 154, 155

Duhan, 29, 78

E

East Frisia, 187, 188

Eastern Question, 325

Edict of 1723, 23

Education, Prussian, 338

Eichel, 150, 164, 180, 182, 201, 225, 226, 232, 233, 239, 240, 242, 265, 279

Elector Palatine, 333, 342

Elizabeth of Brunswick-Bevern, 44 ff., 161

Elizabeth of Russia, 130, 193, 197, 257, 296, 353

Emden, 133

Empire, Holy Roman, 4, 13, 36, 56 ff., 62, 75, 76, 86, 95, 210

England, 21, 31, 58, 60, 61, 84, 92, 135, 136, 148, 317, 332

Ermland, 327

Eugene, 44, 52, 66, 96

Euler, 185, 352

Europe 1713–56, 191 ff.

Excise, 165, 178, 347

F

Fehrbellin, battle of, 16, 17, 46, 65

Ferdinand of Brunswick, 231, 238, 252, 253, 276, 283

Ferdinand, Prince, 99, 266

Fermor, 257 ff.

Finck, 274, 279

Finckenstein, 285, 292

Fleury, 63, 84, 96, 99, 107, 108, 117, 119, 122, 135

Fontenoy, 143, 148, 194

Fouqué, 283, 284

Francis of Lorraine (Emperor Francis I.), 97, 100, 101, 149

Frankfort, on the Main, 81, 118

Frankfort, Union of, 136

Frankfurt-on-Oder, 99, 185, 269

Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg 1640–86. See Great Elector.

Frederick I. (King in Prussia 1701), otherwise Frederick III., Elector of Brandenburg 1686–1713, 18–20, 22, 25, 32, 72

Frederick II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, statue (Berlin, Unter den Linden), 1;

policy, 3, 62 ff., 77, 83 ff., 102, 129 ff., 169 ff., 183 ff.;

and his forerunners, Chapter I. passim, 14, 17, 23;

on Thirty Years’ War, 8;

mother, see Sophia Dorothea;

birth, 25;

personality, 25, 49 ff., 107, 128, 132, 133, 143, 159 ff., 261, 262, 281, 282, 296, 305;

education, 28 ff., 41 ff.;

marriage, 31, 44 ff.;

plan of flight (1730), 32, 33;

trial and imprisonment, 33 ff.;

writings, 53, 55, 75, 163;

philosophy, etc., 53 ff., 73 ff., 160, 290, 291, 295, 304 ff., 319;

accession and early measures, 77 ff.;

seizure of Silesia, 89 ff.;

campaign of 1741, 109 ff.;

Klein Schnellendorf, etc., 120 ff.;

campaign of 1742, 123 ff.;

diplomacy of 1743–44, 134 ff.;

campaign of 1744, 137 ff.;

campaign of 1745, 141 ff.;

in peace, 1746–56, 155 ff.;

and religion, 79, 105, 170 ff.;

habits, 162 ff.;

power, 164 ff.;

and Seven Years’ War, 195 ff.;

in 1757, 211 ff.;

in 1758, 251 ff.;

in 1759, 266 ff.;

in 1760, 281 ff.;

in 1761, 293 ff.;

in 1762, 296 ff.;

in 1763, 299 ff.;

his work of restoration, 306 ff.;

economic policy, 312 ff.;

foreign policy from 1763, 322 ff.;

partition of Poland, 325 ff.;

and West-Preussen, 330, 331;

foreign policy from 1772, 332;

Bavarian Succession, 333 ff.;

life and government from 1779, 337 ff.;

foreign policy from 1779, 339 visit to Silesia in 1785, 344;

illness and death, 345 ff.;

estimate of, 350 ff.

Frederick William I., King of Prussia, 1713–40 (the “Sergeant King”), father of Frederick the Great, 20 ff., 25 ff., 45 ff., 60 ff., 76–78, 86, 97, 104, 167, 177–180, 182, 347

Frederick William II., King of Prussia (1786–1787), 274, 348, 349, 356

Freiberg, battle of, 299

Frisia, East, 73, 133

Füssen, Treaty of, 141

G

General Directory, 177 ff., 320

George II., 31, 32, 84, 108, 135, 149, 194

George William, Elector of Brandenburg, 1619–40, 6, 8, 78

Glatz, 79, 122, 126, 132, 140, 142, 284, 300

Glogau, 103 ff., 121

Goethe, 351

Golden Bull, 13

Goltz, 231

Gotter, 101, 102

Great Elector, The (see Frederick William), 6, 8–20, 22, 64, 65, 72, 73, 83, 165, 347

Great-Fredericksburgh, 72

Gross-Jägersdorf, 233

Grumbkow, 34, 35, 39, 44, 45, 61, 76–78

Guichard, Colonel, 302

Gundling, 27

Gustavus Adolphus, 6, 16, 65, 76, 85, 113

Gustavus III. of Sweden, 332

H

Hadik, 269, 274

Hagen, 318

Halberstadt, 13, 21

Halle, 150, 307

Hamburg, 317;

Peace of (1762), 297

Hanover, 18, 25, 31, 32, 63, 71, 84, 133, 135, 194 ff., 206, 232;

Convention of (1745), 149, 153

Hapsburgs, policy of, 94 ff.

Hastenbeck, 232

Hedwigs-Kirche, 171

Hennersdorf, 151

Henry, Prince, 99, 231, 237, 242, 264, 266, 268, 275, 277, 278, 289, 299, 305, 327, 330, 333, 335 ff.

Herstal, 81, 87, 88, 102

Hertzberg, 314, 341, 347

Hesse-Cassel, Landgrave of 86

Hille, 41, 44, 47, 90

History of the War, Frederick’s, 357

Hochkirch, battle of, 262, 263

Hohenfriedberg, 145 ff.;

March of, 148

Hohenzollern, Albert of, 5

Hohenzollern, Frederick of, 4;

family policy and traits, 4 ff., 19, 20, 36, 46, 52, 59, 61–64, 80, 85, 93, 132, 143;

legend, 350, 358

Hoorn, 88

Hubertusburg, Peace of, 299, 300, 322, 323

Hyndford, Lord, 120, 122

J

Jena, 349, 356, 359

Jenkins’ Ear, war of, 193

Jesuits, 171, 172, 338

Jews in Prussia, 314, 330

Joachim II., Elector of Brandenburg, 1535–71, 6

John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, 1608–19, 6

Jordan, 82

Joseph II., Emperor, 300, 322, 323, 326, 333, 335, 336, 339 ff.

Jülich, 61 ff., 118

Junius Brutus, the new (= Frederick William I.), 31

K

Katte, Lieutenant von, 32, 34, 35, 37–39, 41, 42, 47, 48, 78;

father of, 78

Katzbach, 287

Kaunitz, 191, 194 ff., 326, 339

Kay, battle of, 268

Keith, 217, 233, 258, 262, 263;

Lieutenant, 78

Kesselsdorf, 151, 152

Klein Schnellendorf, Convention, 119 ff., 139

Klinggräffen, 203, 204

Kolin, battle of, 220 ff.

Königgrätz, 145, 147

Königsberg, 5, 9, 10, 15, 19, 80, 257, 258

Königsbrück, 239

Königstein, 206

Koser, Professor, cited, 133, 310, 311, 317

Kunersdorf, battle of, 269 ff.

L

Lacy, 284, 285, 335

Lafayette, 345

Lagos, 282

Landrat (or Sheriff), 177

Landshut, 283, 284

Laudon, 256, 268, 269, 272, 273, 283 ff., 294, 326, 335, 336

Launay, de, 320, 347

Lavisse, cited, 21

Law-reforms, Frederick’s, 176

League of Princes (Fürstenbund), 340 ff.

Lehwaldt, 198, 218, 228, 238, 254

Leipzig, 151, 233, 234, 293

Leitmeritz, 228

Lemberg, 327

Lentulus, 348

Leuthen, battle of, 245 ff.

Lichtenstein, 208

Liège, 87

Liegnitz, 105, 245;

battle of, 286 ff.

Lissa, 244, 251

Lobositz, 207, 208

Louis XIV., 16, 17, 28, 32, 58, 70, 93, 94

Louis XV., 32, 117, 130, 141, 143, 353

Louis XVI., 342

Luchesi, 247, 249

Lusatia, 228, 230, 232, 233

Luther, 5

M

Macaulay, 189

Magdeburg, 13, 50, 169, 235

Mahon, Lord, cited, 50, 173

Mainz, 86, 102

Mannheim, 33

Manstein, General, 223

Maria Theresa, statue (Vienna, Hofburg), 1, 44, 92, 96, 101, 102, 119, 122, 123, 138, 142, 148, 150, 154, 214, 240, 253, 299, 323, 327, 328, 334, 338, 353

Marine Commercial Company, Prussian, 318

Mark, the, of Brandenburg, 4 ff., 9, 14, 63, 169

Mark-Lissa, 266, 268

Maupertuis, 82

Maurice of Anhalt-Dessau, 223, 225, 233

Maxen, 279, 283, 284

Meissen, 151

Melnik, 205

Memel, 71, 72

Menzel, 198

Merseburg, 236, 237

Mietzel, 259

Miller, Arnold, case of, 174, 175

Minden, 13;

battle of, 276, 282

Mirabeau, 346, 355

Mitchell, Sir Andrew, 199, 201, 202, 206, 212, 227, 230, 234, 286

Mollwitz, 112 ff., 147

Münchow, 182

N

Nachod, 335

Nantes, Edict of, 58

Napoleon, 207, 349, 360

Naumburg on the Queiss, 239

Neckar, 86

Neipperg, 110 ff., 120, 144

Neisse, 104 ff., 119–121, 144, 262, 264

Neumarkt, 239 ff.

Newcastle, Duke of, 295

New Palace (Neues Palais), 308, 352

Nippern, 246, 247

Noailles, 135

O

Ohlau, 111, 112, 114

Oliva, Peace of, 65

Olmütz, 122, 256

Oppeln, 114

Ordinance of 1748, 182

Ostend, 70

Ost-Preussen (East Prussia), 5, 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 53, 54, 65, 68, 69, 80, 233, 238, 257, 282, 297, 298, 324

P

Panten, 286, 287

Paper industry in Prussia, 315, 316

Parchwitz, 240, 241, 244

Paris, Peace of (1763), 299, 323

Partition of Poland, 325 ff.

Peene, 22, 69

Peter the Great of Russia, 27, 68, 70, 73

Peter III. of Russia, 296–298

Pfalz-Sulzbach, House of, 63

Philippson, Professor, cited, 168

Pillau, 71, 72

Pirna, 205 ff.

Pitt, William, 213, 238, 254, 276, 282, 295

Podewils, 89, 91, 98, 99, 131, 135, 150, 201, 202, 209, 210, 226, 285

Poland, 10, 34, 64 ff.

Polish Succession, War of, 52

Pöllnitz, 172

Pomerellen, 329

Pompadour, 194, 196, 227, 229, 353

Population, statistics of, 187, 306

Porcelain, Prussian, 314

“Potato War,” 336

Potsdam, 113, 129, 162, 171, 308, 345 ff.

Potsdam, Ogre of (= Frederick the Great), 31

Pragmatic Sanction, 59–61, 66, 70, 92, 95, 96, 118

Prague, 121, 123, 126, 138, 139, 206, 218 ff.;

battle of, 214 ff.

Pretender, the, 148

Prussia, early history, 3;

East (see Ost-Preussen).

Q

Quarter of the Inn (Innviertel), 337

Quebec, 282

Quiberon, 282

Quintus Icilius, 302

R

Rambonnet, 87

Regie, 320, 321

Rheinsberg, 52 ff., 82, 88, 98

Richelieu, 232

Rittner, Andreas, 7

Rochow, von, 33

Rossbach, battle of, 235 ff.

Roucoulle, Madame de, 29

Rumianzow, 342

Rutowski, 151, 152

S

Sagschütz, 246–248

Salt, Prussian, 319

Salzach, 86

Sans Souci, 129, 161, 187, 346, 348

Sazawa, 217, 218

Schäfer, cited, 216

Schaffgotsch, 171

Schandau, 208

Schmettau, 274, 276

Schönhausen, 129, 161

Schulenburg, General von, 36, 37, 78

Schwarzenburg, 6, 9, 17

Schwarzwasser, 286

Schwedt, Margravine of, 305

Schweidnitz, 238, 239, 241, 256, 294, 298, 299

Schwerin, 89, 105, 109 ff., 114 ff., 122, 126, 138 ff., 200, 205, 208, 214, 216, 217, 228

Schwiebus, circle of, 19

Serfdom in Prussia, 312, 313

Sergeant King, the. See Frederick William I.

Seydlitz, 237, 238, 260, 273

Sigismund, 329

Silesia, 16, 20, 67, 89 ff., 126, 141 ff., 155–157, 171, 182, 283, 306, 315, 317, 324, 340, 344 ff.

Sime, Mr. James (cited), 322

Soltykoff, 268 ff., 285

Soor, 149, 150

Sophia Dorothea, Queen-mother of Frederick the Great, 25, 27, 31, 45, 81, 148, 161, 226, 227

Soubise, 232 ff., 253

Spandau, 33

Spanish Succession, War of the, 20

Stanislaus Poniatowski, 324, 329

Stettin, 17, 65, 71, 72

Strasburg, 81

Strehlen, 114

Striegau, 146

Strützky, 347

Sweden and Swedes, 7, 11, 13, 16, 22, 64, 65, 71, 332

Sweden, Queen of, 253

Swedish drink, 7

T

Tangermünde, 7

Tauentzien, 285

Teschen, Peace of, 336, 337, 342

Teutonic Knights, 5

Thiennes, 223, 224

Thirty Years’ War, 6 ff., 13, 57, 58

Thorn, 330

Tobacco, in Prussia, 315, 319

Tobacco Parliament, 27

Torgau, battle of, 291 ff.

Tournay, 143, 144

Traun, 140–142, 144, 150, 153

Turenne, 16

Turin, battle of (1706), 19, 60

U

United States of America, 317

Usedom, 22

Utrecht, Peace of, 58, 70, 84

V

Valori, Marquis de, 202

Vasa, House of, 64

Versailles, Treaty of (May, 1756), 197, 198

Vistula, 68, 69

Voltaire, 51, 53, 81, 82, 89, 98, 129, 130, 158, 162, 163, 172, 187, 228, 279, 280, 310, 330, 337, 351

W

Wales, Prince of, 31

Wallis, 104

Walpole, Robert, 58, 84, 125, 192, 193

Wartha, 34

Wedell, 267, 268

Weissenfels on the Saale, 234

Wesel, 33, 80, 81, 87

Westminster, Convention of, 195–197

Westphalia, Peace of (1648), 13, 14, 57, 60, 65, 337

West-Preussen, 326, 327, 330, 331

Wilhelmina, Princess, sister of Frederick the Great, 26, 27, 31, 35, 43, 49, 80 ff., 135, 226, 227, 240, 252, 264

William I., German Emperor, 350

William II., German Emperor, 69, 173

Winterfeldt, 203, 206, 231

Wladislaus IV. of Poland, 10

Wobersnow, 267

Wolden, 47

Wolf, 27

Wollin, 22

Worms, Treaty of (1743), 136

Wreech, Madame von, 43

Wusterhausen, 28, 95

Y

York, Duke of, 345

Young Pretender, 197

Z

Zieten, 216, 222, 241, 248, 256, 262, 291 ff., 348

Zips, 327

Zittau, 228

Zorndorf, battle of, 260 ff.

Zweibrücken, Charles of, 334, 342, 343