Frederick II King of Prussia

Standard Name: Frederick II,, King of Prussia
Used Form: Frederick the Great

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Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth , sprang from a petty ruling family in Germany. He was a nephew both of Frederick the Great of Prussia and of Queen Caroline , wife of George...
Literary Setting George Sand
This takes place partly in Berlin at the Court of Frederick the Great . Consuelo, now a countess, supposes for some time that her husband is dead. She learns that he was an initiate and...
Literary Setting Georgina Munro
A debauched earl is the narrator of this novel, which, typically for the genre, is peopled by characters from the gentry and the upper classes.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
744 (1842):110
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
The story is set during the reign of...
Textual Production Anne Francis
While she was still very young the future AF chose ambitious topics for her poetry. She wrote, for instance, a piece about Frederick the Great which she abandoned at her father's death.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Francis, Anne. Miscellaneous Poems. T. Becket and R. Baldwin, 1790.
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Textual Production Nancy Mitford
NM 's last biography, Frederick the Great, was published.
Hastings, Selina. Nancy Mitford: A Biography. Hamish Hamilton, 1985.
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Mitford, Nancy. “Critical Materials”. Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, edited by Charlotte Mosley, Hodder and Stoughton, 1993, p. various pages.
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Textual Production Nancy Mitford
Madame de Pompadour was first published with a jacket by Cecil Beaton . Her biographies (the study of Madame de Pompadour being followed by Voltaire, 1957, Louis XIV , 1966, and Frederick the Great ...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Charlotte Forman
The essays in general are highly knowledgeable, often taking the form of dispatches from abroad and including translated material from foreign sources. They discuss trade and commerce, international politics, the Seven Years' War, and Britain's...

Timeline

9 October 1740: It was this day in England when the Emperor...

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9 October 1740

It was this day in England when the Emperor of Austria, Charles VI , died and was succeeded by his daughter, Maria Theresa .
Browning, Reed. The War of the Austrian Succession. St Martin’s Press, 1993.
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Anderson, Matthew Smith. The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-1748. Longman, 1995.
7-8, 59, 61-62
The day of the emperor's death was 20 October New Style.

14 January 1741: Frederick II of Prussia declared that Silesia,...

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14 January 1741

Frederick II of Prussia declared that Silesia, which he planned to take from Maria Theresa of Austria, was as good as conquered.
Browning, Reed. The War of the Austrian Succession. St Martin’s Press, 1993.
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Browning, Reed. The War of the Austrian Succession. St Martin’s Press, 1993.
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January 1756: Britain broke with the Old System by allying...

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January 1756

Britain broke with the Old System by allying itself with Frederick II 's Prussia instead of Maria Theresa 's Austria (which it had supported in the War of the Austrian Succession). The stage was now...

August 1756: Frederick II of Prussia invaded neutral Saxony,...

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August 1756

Frederick II of Prussia invaded neutral Saxony, finally precipitating the Seven Years' War.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
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6 April 1757: The Battle of Prague was fought; it featured...

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6 April 1757

The Battle of Prague was fought; it featured in European minds for a generation as the bloodiest conflict imaginable.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
Greene, Donald. “Johnson: The Jacobite Legend Exhumed: A Rejoinder to Howard Erskine-Hill and J. C. D. Clark”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
7
, 1996, pp. 57-135.
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June 1757: Britain's ally Frederick II of Prussia lost...

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June 1757

Britain's ally Frederick II of Prussia lost half his army (30,000 of his best troops), at Kolin in Bohemia.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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5 November 1757: Britain's ally Frederick II had the first...

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5 November 1757

Britain's ally Frederick II had the first of two unexpected victories, at Rossbach near Halle in Germany.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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August 1759: Russia's victory over Frederick the Great...

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August 1759

Russia's victory over Frederick the Great at Kunersdorff gave it a new status in European politics.
Levitt, Marcus C. “An Antidote to Nervous Juice: Catherine the Great’s Debate with Chappe d’Auteroche over Russian Culture”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1998, pp. 49-63.
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