64. ENCOURAGEMENTS, DISCOURAGEMENTS.
293WHO WAS TO BLAME FOR THE AUSTRIAN-SUCCESSION WAR?
7Chapter II. — FRIEDRICH'S BIRTH.
294HOW BELLEISLE MADE VISIT TO TEUTSCHLAND; AND THERE WAS NO FIT HENRY THE FOWLER TO WELCOME HIM.
8Chapter III. — FATHER AND MOTHER: THE HANOVERIAN CONNECTION.
295DOWNBREAK OF PRAGMATIC SANCTION; MANNER OF THE CHIEF ARTISTS IN HANDLING THEIR COVENANTS.
9Chapter IV. — FATHER'S MOTHER.
296CONCERNING THE IMPERIAL ELECTION (Kaiserwahl) THAT IS TO BE: CANDIDATES FOR KAISERSHIP.
10Chapter V. — KING FRIEDRICH I.
297TEUTSCHLAND TO BE CARVED INTO SOMETHING OF SYMMETRY, SHOULD THE BELLEISLE ENTERPRISES SUCCEED.
11BOOK II. — OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS. - 928–1417.
298BELLEISLE ON VISIT TO FRIEDRICH; SEES FRIEDRICH BESIEGE BRIEG, WITH EFFECT.
12Chapter I. — BRANNIBOR: HENRY THE FOWLER.
299Chapter XII. — SORROWS OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY.
13Chapter II. — PREUSSEN: SAINT ADALBERT.
300No. 1. SNATCH OF PARLIAMENTARY ELOQUENCE BY MR. VINER (19th April, 1741).
14Chapter III. — MARKGRAVES OF BRANDENBURG.
301No. 2. CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORIAN ON THE PHENOMENON OF WALPOLE IN ENGLAND.
15END OF THE FIRST SHADOWY LINE.
302No. 3. OF THE SPANISH WAR, OR THE JENKINS'S-EAR QUESTION.
16SECOND SHADOWY LINE.
303SUCCINCT HISTORY OF THE SPANISH WAR, WHICH BEGAN IN 1739; AND ENDED—WHEN DID IT END?
17SUBSTANTIAL MARKGRAVES: GLIMPSE OF THE CONTEMPORARY KAISERS.
304Chapter XIII. — SMALL-WAR: FIRST EMERGENCE OF ZIETHEN THE HUSSAR GENERAL INTO NOTICE.
18Chapter IV. — ALBERT THE BEAR.
305BOOK XIII. — FIRST SILESIAN WAR, LEAVING THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE ABLAZE ALL ROUND, GETS ENDED. — May, 1741-July, 1742.
19Chapter V. — CONRAD OF HOHENZOLLERN; AND KAISER BARBAROSSA.
306Chapter I. — BRITANNIC MAJESTY AS PALADIN OF THE PRAGMATIC.: CUNCTATIONS, YET INCESSANT AND UBIQUITOUS ENDEAVORINGS, OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY (1741–1743).
20CONRAD HAS BECOME BURGGRAF OF NURNBERG (A.D. 1170).
307Chapter II. — CAMP OF STREHLEN.
21OF THE HOHENZOLLERN BURGGRAVES GENERALLY.
308EXCELLENCY HYNDFORD HAS HIS FIRST AUDIENCE (Camp of Mollwitz, May 7th);
22Chapter VI. — THE TEUTSCH RITTERS OR TEUTONIC ORDER.
309EXCELLENCY ROBINSON BUSY IN THE VIENNA HOFRATH CIRCLES, TO PRODUCE A COMPLIANCE.
23HEAD OF TEUTSCH ORDER MOVES TO VENICE.
310EXCELLENCY ROBINSON HAS AUDIENCE OF FRIEDRICH (Camp of Strehlen, 7th August, 1741).
24TEUTSCH ORDER ITSELF GOES TO PREUSSEN.
311Chapter III. — GRAND REVIEW AT STREHLEN: NEIPPERG TAKES AIM AT BRESLAU, BUT ANOTHER HITS IT.
25THE STUFF TEUTSCH RITTERS WERE MADE OF. CONRAD OF THURINGEN: SAINT ELIZABETH; TOWN OF MARBURG.
312Chapter IV. — FRIEDRICH TAKES THE FIELD AGAIN, INTENT ON HAVING NEISSE.
26Chapter VII. — MARGRAVIATE OF CULMBACH: BAIREUTH, ANSPACH.
313Chapter V. — KLEIN-SCHNELLENDORF: FRIEDRICH GETS NEISSE, IN A FASHION.: EXCELLENCY HYNDFORD BRINGS ABOUT A MEETING AT KLEIN-SCHNELLENDORF (9th October, 1741).
27BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH III.; AND THE ANARCHY OF NINETEEN YEARS.
314FRIEDRICH TAKES NEISSE BY SHAM SIEGE (CAPTURE NOT SHAM); GETS HOMAGED IN BRESLAU; AND RETURNS TO BERLIN.
28KAISER RUDOLF AND BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH III.
315Chapter VI. — NEW MAYOR OF LANDSHUT MAKES AN INSTALLATION SPEECH.
29Chapter VIII. — ASCANIER MARKGRAVES IN BRANDENBURG.
316Chapter VII. -- FRIEDRICH PURPOSES TO MEND THE KLEIN-SCHNELLENDORF FAILURE: FORTUNES OF THE BELLEISLE ARMAMENT.
30OF BERLIN CITY.
317THE FRENCH SAFE IN PRAG; KAISERWAHL JUST COMING ON.
31MARKGRAF OTTO IV., OR OTTO WITH THE ARROW
318BROGLIO HAS A BIVOUAC OF PISEK; KHEVENHULLER LOOKS IN UPON THE DONAU CONQUESTS.
32Chapter IX. — BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH IV.
319Chapter VIII. — FRIEDRICH STARTS FOR MORAVIA, ON A NEW SCHEME HE HAS.
33CONTESTED ELECTIONS IN THE REICH: KAISER ALBERT I.; AFTER WHOM SIX NON-HAPSBURG KAISERS.
320Chapter IX. — WILHELMINA GOES TO SEE THE GAYETIES AT FRANKFURT.
34OF KAISER HENRY VII. AND THE LUXEMBURG KAISERS.
321WILHELMINA AT THE CORONATION.
35HENRY'S SON JOHANN IS KING OF BOHEMIA; AND LUDWIG THE BAVARIAN, WITH A CONTESTED ELECTION, IS KAISER.
322THE DUCHESS DOWAGER OF WURTEMBERG, RETURNING FROM BERLIN FAVORS US WITH ANOTHER VISIT.
36Chapter X. — BRANDENBURG LAPSES TO THE KAISER.
323Chapter X. — FRIEDRICH DOES HIS MORAVIAN EXPEDITION WHICH PROVES A MERE MORAVIAN FORAY.
37Chapter XI. — BAYARIAN KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG.
324IGLAU IS GOT, BUT NOT THE MAGAZINE AT IGLAU.
38A RESUSCITATED ASCANIER; THE FALSE WALDEMAR.
325THE SAXONS THINK IGLAU ENOUGH; THE FRENCH GO HOME.
39MARGARET WITH THE POUCH-MOUTH.
326FRIEDRICH SUBMERGES THE MORAVIAN COUNTRIES; BUT CANNOT BRUNN, WHICH IS THE INDISPENSABLE POINT.
40Chapter XII. — BRANDENBURG IN KAISER KARL'S TIME; END OF THE BAVARIAN KURFURSTS.
327THE SAXONS HAVE NO CANNON FOR BRUNN, CANNOT AFFORD ANY; THERE IS A HIGH RESOLUTION TAKEN AT VIENNA (February 25th): FRIEDRICH QUITS THE MORAVIAN ENTERPRISE.
41END OF RESUSCITATED WALDEMAR; KURFURST LUDWIG SELLS OUT.
328Chapter XI. —NUSSLER IN NEISSE, WITH THE OLD DESSAUER AND WALRAVE.: HOW NUSSLER HAPPENED TO BE IN NEISSE, MAY, 1742.
42SECOND, AND THEN THIRD AND LAST, OF THE BAVARIAN KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG.
329Chapter XII. — PRINCE KARL DOES COME ON.
43Chapter XIII. — LUXEMBURG KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG.
330Chapter XIII. —BATTLE OF CHOTUSITZ.
44Chapter XIV. — BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH VI.
331Chapter XIV. — PEACE OF BRESLAU.
45SIGISMUND IS KURFURST OF BRANDENBURG, BUT IS KING OF HUNGARY ALSO.
332BOOK XIV.—THE SURROUNDING EUROPEAN WAR DOES NOT END.—August, 1742-July, 1744.
46COUSIN JOBST HAS BRANDENBURG IN PAWN.
333Chapter I.—FRIEDRICH RESUMES HIS PEACEABLE PURSUITS.
47BRANDENBURG IN THE HANDS OF THE PAWNBROKERS; RUPERT OF THE PFALZ IS KAISER.
334SETTLES THE SILESIAN BOUNDARIES, THE SILESIAN ARRANGEMENTS; WITH MANIFEST PROFIT TO SILESIA AND HIMSELF.
48SIGISMUND, WITH A STRUGGLE, BECOMES KAISER.
335OPENING OF THE OPERA-HOUSE AT BERLIN.
49BRANDENBURG IS PAWNED FOR THE LAST TIME.
336FRIEDRICH TAKES THE WATERS AT AACHEN, WHERE VOLTAIRE COMES TO SEE HIM.
50THE SEVEN INTERCALARY OR NON-HAPSBURG KAISERS.
337Chapter II.—AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS ARE ON THE MOUNTING HAND.
51BOOK III. — THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. - 1412–1718
338WAR-PHENOMENA IN THE WESTERN PARTS: KING GEORGE TRIES, A SECOND TIME, TO DRAW HIS SWORD; TUGS AT IT VIOLENTLY, FOR SEVEN MONTHS (February-October, 1742).
52Chapter I. — KURFURST FRIEDRICH I.
339HOW DUC D'HARCOURT, ADVANCING TO REINFORCE THE ORIFLAMME, HAD TO SPLIT HIMSELF IN TWO; AND BECOME AN "ARMY OF BAVARIA," TO LITTLE EFFECT.
53Chapter II. — MATINEES DU ROI DE PRUSSE.
340HOW BELLEISLE, RETURNING FROM DRESDEN WITHOUT CO-OPERATION FOUND THE ATTACK HAD BEEN DONE—IN A FATALLY REVERSE WAY. PRAG EXPECTING SIEGE. COLLOQUY WITH BROGLIO ON THAT INTERESTING POINT. PRAG BESIEGED.
54Chapter III. — KURFURST FRIEDRICH II.
341CONCERNING THE ITALIAN WAR WHICH SIMULTANEOUSLY WENT ON, ALL ALONG.
55Chapter IV. — KURFURST ALBERT ACHILLES, AND HIS SUCCESSOR.: JOHANN THE CICERO IS FOURTH KURFURST, AND LEAVES TWO NOTABLE SONS.
342SCENE, ROADS OF CADIZ, October, 1741: BY WHAT ASTONISHING ARTIFICE THIS ITALIAN WAR DID, AT LENGTH, GET BEGUN.
56Chapter V. — OF THE BAIREUTH-ANSPACH BRANCH.
343OTHER SCENE, BAY OF NAPLES, 19th-20th August, 1742: KING OF TWO SICILIES (BABY CARLOS THAT WAS), HAVING BEEN ASSISTING MAMMA, IS OBLIGED TO BECOME NEUTRAL IN THE ITALIAN WAR.
57TWO LINES IN CULMBACH OR BAIREUTH-ANSPACH: THE GERA BOND OF 1598.
344THE SIEGE OF PRAG CONTIMES. A GRAND SALLY THERE.
58THE ELDER LINE OF CULMBACH: FRIEDRICH AND HIS THREE NOTABLE SONS THERE.
345MAILLEBOIS MARCHES, WITH AN "ARMY OF REDEMPTION" OR "OF MATHURINS" (WITTILY SO CALLED), TO RELIEVE PRAG; REACHES THE BOHEMIAN FRONTIER, JOINED BY THE COMTE DE SAXE; ABOVE 50,000 STRONG (August 9th-September 19th).
59FRIEDRICH'S SECOND SON, MARGRAF GEORGE OF ANSPACH.
346PRINCE KARL AND THE GRAND-DUKE, HEARING OF MAILLEBOIS, GO TO MEET HIM (September 14th); AND THE SIEGE OF PRAG IS RAISED.
60Chapter VI. — HOCHMEISTER ALBERT, THIRD NOTABLE SON OF FRIEDRICH.
347THE MAILLEBOIS ARMY OF REDEMPTION CANNOT REDEEM AT ALL;—HAS TO STAGGER SOUTHWARD AGAIN; AND BECOMES AN "ARMY OF BAVARIA," UNDER BROGLIO.
61Chapter VII. — ALBERT ALCIBIADES.
348VOLTAIRE HAS BEEN ON VISIT AT AACHEN, IN THE INTERIM—HIS THIRD VISIT TO KING FRIEDRICH.
62Chapter VIII. — HISTORICAL MEANING OF THE REFORMATION.
349THREE LETTERS OF VOLTAIRE, DATED BRUSSELS, 10th SEPT. 1742.
63Chapter IX. — KURFURST JOACHIM I.
350Chapter III.—CARNIVAL PHENOMENA IN WAR-TIME.
64Chapter X. — KURFURST JOACHIM II.
351RETREAT FROM PRAG; ARMY OF THE ORIFLAMME, BOHEMIAN SECTION BOHEMIAN SECTION OF IT, MAKES EXIT.
65JOACHIM GETS CO-INVESTMENT IN PREUSSEN.
352A GLANCE AT VIENNA, AND THEN AT BERLIN.
66JOACHIM MAKES "HERITAGE-BROTHERHOOD" WITH THE DUKE OF LIEGNITZ.
353VOLTAIRE, AT PARIS, IS MADE IMMORTAL BY A KISS.
67Chapter XI. — SEVENTH KURFURST, JOHANN GEORGE.
354Chapter IV.—AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS MOUNT TO A DANGEROUS HEIGHT.
68Chapter XII. — OF ALBERT FRIEDRICH, THE SECOND DUKE OF PREUSSEN.
355BRITANNIC MAJESTY, WITH SWORD ACTUALLY DRAWN, HAS MARCHED MEANWHILE TO THE FRANKFURT COUNTRIES, AS "PRAGMATIC ARMY;" READY FOR BATTLE AND TREATY ALIKE.
69OF DUKE ALBERT FRIEDRICH'S MARRIAGE: WHO HIS WIFE WAS, AND WHAT HER POSSIBLE DOWRY.
356FRIEDRICH HAS OBJECTIONS TO THE PRAGMATIC ARMY; BUT IN VAIN. OF FRIEDRICH'S MANY ENDEAVORS TO QUENCH THIS WAR, BY "UNION OF INDEPENDENT GERMAN PRINCES," BY "MEDIATION OF THE REICH," AND OTHERWISE; ALL IN VAIN.
70MARGRAF GEORGE FRIEDRICH COMES TO PREUSSEN TO ADMINISTER.
357Chapter V.—BRITANNIC MAJESTY FIGHTS HIS BATTLE OF DETTINGEN; AND BECOMES SUPREME JOVE OF GERMANY, IN A MANNER.
71Chapter XIII. — NINTH KURFURST, JOHANN SIGISMUND.
358BATTLE OF DETTINGEN.
72HOW THE CLEVE HERITAGE DROPPED, AND MANY SPRANG TO PICK IT UP.
359BRITANNIC MAJESTY HOLDS HIS CONFERENCES OF HANAU.
73THE KAISER'S THOUGHTS ABOUT IT, AND THE WORLD'S.
360HUNGARIAN MAJESTY ANSWERS, IN THE DIET, THAT FRENCH DECLARATION, "MAKE PEACE, GOOD PEOPLE; I WISH TO BE OUT OF IT!"—IN AN OMINOUS MANNER.
74Chapter XIV. — SYMPTOMS OF A GREAT WAR COMING.
361BRITANNIC MAJESTY GOES HOME.
75FIRST SYMPTOM; DONAUWORTH, 1608.
362Chapter VI.—VOLTAIRE VISITS FRIEDRICH FOR THE FOURTH TIME.: FRIEDRICH VISITS BAIREUTH: ON A PARTICULAR ERRAND;—VOLTAIRE ATTENDING, AND PRIVATELY REPORTING.
76SYMPTOM THIRD: A DINNER-SCENE AT DUSSELDORF, 1613: SPANIARDS AND DUTCH SHOULDER ARMS IN CLEVE.
363Chapter VII.—FRIEDRICH MAKES TREATY WITH FRANCE; AND SILENTLY GETS READY.
77SYMPTOM FOURTH, AND CATASTROPHE UPON THE HEELS OF IT.
364Chapter VIII.—PERFECT PEACE AT BERLIN, WAR ALL ROUND.
78WHAT BECAME OF THE CLEVE-JULICH HERITAGE, AND OF THE PREUSSEN ONE.
365THE SUCCESSION IN RUSSIA, AND ALSO IN SWEDEN, SHALL NOT BE HOSTILE TO US: TWO ROYAL MARRIAGES, A RUSSIAN AND A SWEDISH, ARE ACCOMPLISHED AT BERLIN, WITH SUCH VIEW.
79Chapter XV. — TENTH KURFURST, GEORGE WILHELM.
366GLANCE AT THE BELLIGERENT POWERS; BRITANNIC MAJESTY NARROWLY MISSES AN INVASION THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN DANGEROUS
80Chapter XVI. — THIRTY-YEARS WAR.
367THE YOUNG DUKE OF WURTEMBERG GETS A VALEDICTORY ADVICE; AND POLLNITZ A DITTO TESTIMONIAL (February 6th; April 1st, 1744).
81SECOND ACT, OR EPOCH, 1624–1629. A SECOND UNCLE PUT TO THE BAN, AND POMMERN SNATCHED AWAY.
368TWO CONQUESTS FOR PRUSSIA, A GASEOUS AND A SOLID: CONQUEST FIRST, BARBERINA THE DANCER.
82THIRD ACT, AND WHAT THE KURFURST SUFFERED IN IT.
369CONQUEST SECOND IS OST-FRIESLAND, OF A SOLID NATURE.
83Chapter XVII. — DUCHY OF JAGERNDORF.: DUKE OF JAGERNDORF, ELECTOR'S UNCLE, IS PUT UNDER BAN.
370BOOK XV.—SECOND SILESIAN WAR, IMPORTANT EPISODE IN THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE.—15th Aug. 1744–25th Dec. 1745.
84Chapter XVIII. — FRIEDRICH WILHELM, THE GREAT KURFURST, ELEVENTH OF THE SERIES.
371Chapter I.—PRELIMINARY: HOW THE MOMENT ARRIVED.
85WHAT BECAME OF POMMERN AT THE PEACE; FINAL GLANCE INTO CLEVE-JULICH.
372PRINCE KARL GETS ACROSS THE RHINE (20 JUNE-2 JULY, 1744).
86THE GREAT KURFURST'S WARS: WHAT HE ACHIEVED IN WAR AND PEACE.
373FRIEDRICH DECIDES TO INTERVENE.
87Chapter XIX. — KING FRIEDRICH I. AGAIN.
374Chapter II.—FRIEDRICH MARCHES UPON PRAG, CAPTURES PRAG.
88HOW AUSTRIA SETTLED THE SILESIAN CLAIMS.
375Chapter III.—FRIEDRICH, DILIGENT IN HIS BOHEMIAN CONQUESTS, UNEXPECTEDLY COMES UPON PRINCE KARL, WITH NO FRENCH ATTENDING HIM.
89HIS REAL CHARACTER.
376FRIEDRICH, LEAVING SMALL GARRISON IN PRAG, RUSHES SWIFTLY UP THE MOLDAU VALLEY, UPON THE TABOR-BUDWEIS COUNTRY; TO PLEASE HIS FRENCH FRIENDS.
90Chapter XX. — DEATH OF KING FRIEDRICH I.
377THE FRENCH ARE LITTLE GRATEFUL FOR THE PLEASURE DONE THEM AT SUCH RUINOUS EXPENSE.
91THE TWELVE HOHENZOLLERN ELECTORS.
378Chapter IV.—FRIEDRICH REDUCED TO STRAITS; CANNOT MAINTAIN HIS MOLDAU CONQUESTS AGAINST PRICE KARL.
92GENEALOGICAL DIAGRAM: THE TWO CULMBACH LINES.
379FRIEDRICH TRIES TO HAVE BATTLE FROM PRINCE KARL, IN THE MOLDAU COUNTRIES; CANNOT, OWING TO THE SKILL OF PRINCE KARL OR OF OLD FELDMARSCHALL TRAUN;—HAS TO RETIRE BEHIND THE SAZAWA, AND ULTIMATELY BEHIND THE ELBE, WITH MUCH LABOR IN VAIN.
933d KURFURST (1471–1486) ALBERT ACHILLES. ELDER CULMBACH LINE.
380FRIEDRICH'S RETREAT; ESPECIALLY EINSIEDEL'S FROM PRAG.
94BOOK IV. — FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP, FIRST STAGE. - 1713–1728.
381Chapter V.—FRIEDRICH, UNDER DIFFICULTIES, PREPARES FOR A NEW CAMPAIGN.
95CHAPTER I. — CHILDHOOD: DOUBLE EDUCATIONAL ELEMENT.: FIRST EDUCATIONAL ELEMENT, THE FRENCH ONE.
382OLD DESSAUER REPELS THE SILESIAN INVASION (Winter, 1744–45).
96Chapter II. — THE GERMAN ELEMENT.: OF THE DESSAUER, NOT YET "OLD."
383THE FRENCH FULLY INTEND TO BEHAVE BETTER NEXT SEASON TO FRIEDRICH AND THEIR GERMAN ALLIES;—BUT ARE PREVENTED BY VARIOUS ACCIDENTS (November, 1744-April, 1745; April-August, 1745).
97Chapter III. — FRIEDRICH WILHELM IS KING.
384STRANGE ACCIDENT TO MARECHAL DE BELLEISLE IN THE HARZ MOUNTAINS (20th December, 1744).
98Chapter IV. — HIS MAJESTY'S WAYS.
385THE KAISER KARL VII. GETS SECURED FROM OPPRESSIONS, IN A TRAGIC WAY. FRIEDRICH PROPOSES PEACE, BUT TO NO PURPOSE.
99Chapter V. — FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S ONE WAR.: THE DEVIL IN HARNESS: CREUTZ THE FINANCE-MINISTER.
386Chapter VI.—VALORI GOES ON AN ELECTIONEERING MISSION TO DRESDEN.
100Chapter VI. — THE LITTLE DRUMMER.
3871. FRIEDRICH'S POSITION TOWARDS SAXONY.
101Chapter VII. — TRANSIT OF CZAR PETER.
3882. THERE IS A, "UNION OF WARSAW" (8th January, 1745); AND STILL MORE SPECIALLY A "TREATY OF WARSAW" (8th January-18th May, 1745).
102Chapter VIII. — THE CROWN-PRINCE IS PUT TO HIS SCHOOLING.
3893. VALORI'S ACCOUNT OF HIS MISSION (in compressed form). [Valori, i. 211–219.]
103Chapter IX. — WUSTERHAUSEN.
390MIDDLE-RHINE ARMY IN A STAGGERING STATE; THE BAVARIAN INTRICACY SETTLES ITSELF, THE WRONG WAY.
104Chapter X. — THE HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS.
391Chapter VII.—FRIEDRICH IN SILESIA; UNUSUALLY BUSY.
105OF KUR-PFALZ KARL PHILIP: HOW HE GOT A WIFE LONG SINCE, AND DID FEATS IN THE WORLD.
392KING FRIEDRICH TO PODEWILS, IN BERLIN (under various dates, March-April, 1745).
106KARL PHILIP AND HIS HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS.
393FRIEDRICH TO PODEWILS (as before, April-May, 1745).
107FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S METHOD;—PROVES REMEDIAL IN HEIDELBERG.
394Chapter VIII.—THE MARTIAL BOY AND HIS ENGLISH versus THE LAWS OF NATURE.: BATTLE OF FONTENOY (11th May, 1745).
108PRUSSIAN MAJESTY HAS DISPLEASED THE KAISER AND THE KING OF POLAND.
395Chapter IX.—THE AUSTRIAN-SAXON ARMY INVADES SILESIA, ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS.
109Chapter XI. — ON THE CROWN-PRINCE'S PROGRESS IN HIS SCHOOLING.: THE NOLTENIUS-AND-PANZENDORF DRILL-EXERCISE.
396Chapter X.—BATTLE OF HOHENFRIEDBERG.
110Chapter XII. — CROWN-PRINCE FALLS INTO DISFAVOR WITH PAPA.
397Chapter XI.—CAMP OF CHLUM: FRIEDRICH CANNOT ACHIEVE PEACE.
111Chapter XIII. — RESULTS OF THE CROWN-PRINCE'S SCHOOLING.
398CAMP OF DIESKAU: BRITANNIC MAJESTY MAKES PEACE, FOR HIMSELF, WITH FRIEDRICH; BUT CANNOT FOR AUSTRIA OR SAXONY.
112BOOK V. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND WHAT ELEMENT IT FELL INTO. — 1723–1726.
399SCHONBRUNN, 2d AUGUST, 1745, ROBINSON HAS AUDIENCE OF HER HUNGARIAN MAJESTY.
113Chapter I. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE IS DECIDED ON.
400GRAND-DUKE FRANZ IS ELECTED KAISER (13TH SEPTEMBER, 1745); FRIEDRICH, THE SEASON AND FORAGE BEING DONE, MAKES FOR SILESIA.
114QUEEN SOPHIE DOROTHEE HAS TAKEN TIME BY THE FORELOCK.
401Chapter XII.—BATTLE OF SOHR.
115PRINCESS AMELIA COMES INTO THE WORLD.
402Chapter XIII.—SAXONY AND AUSTRIA MAKE A SURPRISING LAST ATTEMPT.
116FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S TEN CHILDREN.
403FRIEDRICH GOES OUT TO MEET HIS THREE-LEGGED MONSTER; CUTS ONE LEG OF IT IN TWO (Fight of Hennersdorf, 23d November, 1745).
117Marriage to Sophie Dorothee, 28th November, 1706.
404PRINCE KARL, CUT IN TWO, TUMBLES HOME AGAIN DOUBLE-QUICK.
118Chapter II. — A KAISER HUNTING SHADOWS.
405Chapter XIV.—BATTLE OF KESSELSDORF.
119IMPERIAL MAJESTY ON THE TREATY OF UTRECHT.
406Chapter XV.—PEACE OF DRESDEN: FRIEDRICH DOES MARCH HOME.
120IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAS GOT HAPPILY WEDDED.
407BOOK XVI.—THE TEN YEARS OF PEACE.—1746–1756.
121IMPERIAL MAJESTY AND THE TERMAGANT OF SPAIN.
408Chapter I.—SANS-SOUCI.: FRIEDRICH DECLINES THE CAREER OF CONQUERING HERO; GOES INTO LAW-REFORM; AND GETS READY A COTTAGE RESIDENCE FOR HIMSELF.
122IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S PRAGMATIC SANCTION.
409Chapter II.—PEEP AT VOLTAIRE AND HIS DIVINE EMILIE (BY CANDLELIGHT) IN THE TIDE OF EVENTS.
123THIRD SHADOW: IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S OSTEND COMPANY.
410VOLTAIRE AND THE DIVINE EMILIE APPEAR SUDDENLY, ONE NIGHT, AT SCEAUX.
124Chapter III. — THE SEVEN CRISES OR EUROPEAN TRAVAIL-THROES.
411WAR-PASSAGES IN 1747.
125CONGRESS OF CAMBRAI.
412MARSHAL KEITH COMES TO PRUSSIA (September, 1747).
126CONGRESS OF CAMBRAI GETS THE FLOOR PULLED FROM UNDER IT.
413Chapter III.—EUROPEAN WAR FALLS DONE: TREATY OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.
127FRANCE AND THE BRITANNIC MAJESTY TRIM THE SHIP AGAIN: HOW FRIEDRICH WILHELM CAME INTO IT. TREATY OF HANOVER, 1725.
414MARECHAL DE SAXE PAYS FRIEDRICH A VISIT.
128TRAVAIL-THROES OF NATURE FOR BABY CARLOS'S ITALIAN APANAGE; SEVEN IN NUMBER.
415TRAGIC NEWS, THAT CONCERN US, OF VOLTAIRE AND OTHERS.
129Chapter IV. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE TREATY CANNOT BE SIGNED.
416Chapter IV. COCCEJI FINISHES THE LAW-REFORM; FRIEDRICH IS PRINTING HIS POESIES.
130Chapter V. — CROWN-PRINCE GOES INTO THE POTSDAM GUARDS.
417Chapter V. STRANGERS OF NOTE COME TO BERLIN, IN 1750.
131OF THE POTSDAM GIANTS, AS A FACT.
418CANDIDATUS LINSENBARTH (QUASI "Lentil-beard") LIKEWISE VISITS BERLIN.
132FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S RECRUITING DIFFICULTIES.
419SIR JONAS HANWAY STALKS ACROSS THE SCENE, TOO; IN A PONDERING AND OBSERVING MANNER.
133QUEEN SOPHIE'S TROUBLES: GRUMKOW WITH THE OLD DESSAUER, AND GRUMKOW WITHOUT HIM.
420Chapter VI.—BERLIN CARROUSEL, AND VOLTAIRE VISIBLE THERE.: PERPETUAL PRESIDENT MAUPERTUIS HAS A VISIT FROM ONE KONIG, OUT OF HOLLAND, CONCERNING THE INFINITELY LITTLE.
134Chapter VI. — ORDNANCE-MASTER SECKENDORF CROSSES THE PALACE ESPLANADE.
421Chapter VII.—M. DE VOLTAIRE HAS A PAINFUL JEW-LAWSUIT.
135Chapter VII. — TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT.: OF GUNDLING, AND THE LITERARY MEN IN TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT.
422THE VOLTAIRE-HIRSCH TRANSACTION: PART I. ORIGIN OF LAWSUIT (10th November-25th December, 1750).
136Chapter VIII. — SECKENDORF'S RETORT TO HER MAJESTY.
423PART II. THE LAWSUIT ITSELF (30th December, 1750–18th and 26th February, 1751).
137BOOK VI. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND CROWN-PRINCE, GOING ADRIFT UNDER THE STORM-WINDS. — 1727–1730.
424Chapter VIII. OST-FRIESLAND AND THE SHIPPING INTERESTS.: FRIEDRIAH VISITS OST-FRIESLAND.
138Chapter I. — FIFTH CRISIS IN THE KAISER'S SPECTRE-HUNT.: CROWN-PRINCE SEEN IN DRYASDUST'S GLASS, DARKLY.
425Chapter IX.—SECOND ACT OF THE VOLTAIRE VISIT.
139Chapter II. — DEATH OF GEORGE I.: HIS PRUSSIAN MAJESTY FALLS INTO ONE OF HIS HYPOCHONDRIACAL FITS.
426DETACHED FEATURES (NOT FABULOUS) OF VOLTAIRE AND HIS BERLIN-POTSDAM ENVIRONMENT IN 1751–1752.
140Chapter III. — VISIT TO DRESDEN.
427FRACTIONS OF EVENTS AND INDICATIONS, FROM VOLTAIRE HIMSELF, IN THIS TIME; MORE OR LESS ILLUMINATIVE WHEN REDUCED TO ORDER.
141THE PHYSICALLY STRONG PAYS HIS COUNTER-VISIT.
428Chapter X. DEMON NEWSWRITER, OF 1752.: A DEMON NEWSWRITER GIVES AN "IDEA" OF FRIEDRICH; INTELLIGIBLE TO THE KNOWING CLASSES IN ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE.
142OF PRINCESS WHILHELMINA'S FOUR KINGS AND OTHER INEFFECTUAL SUITORS.
429Chapter XI. THIRD ACT AND CATASTROPHE OF THE VOLTAIRE VISIT.: "ANSWER FROM [VERY PRIVATELY VOLTAIRE, CALLING HIMSELF] A BERLIN ACADEMICIAN TO A PARIS ONE.
143Chapter IV. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT IS NOT DEAD.
430Chapter XII. OF THE AFTERPIECE, WHICH PROVED STILL MORE TRAGICAL.
144CROWN-PRINCE FRIEDRICH WRITES CERTAIN LETTERS.
431PART I. FREDERSDORF SENDS INSTRUCTIONS; THE "OEUVRE DE POESIE" IS GOT; BUT—
145DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT RE-EMERGES IN AN OFFICIAL SHAPE.
432PART II. VOLTAIRE, IN SPITE OF HIS EFFORTS, DOES GET AWAY (June 20th-July 7th).
146HIS MAJESTY SLAUGHTERS 3,602 HEAD OF WILD SWINE.
433Chapter XIII. ROMISH-KING QUESTION; ENGLISH-PRIVATEER QUESTION.
147FALLS ILL, IN CONSEQUENCE; AND THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE CANNOT GET FORWARD.
434Chapter XIV. THERE IS LIKE TO BE ANOTHER WAR AHEAD.
148Chapter V. — CONGRESS OF SOISSONS, SIXTH CRISIS IN THE SPECTRE-HUNT.
435Chapter XV.—ANTI-PRUSSIAN WAR-SYMPTOMS: FRIEDRICH VISIBLE FOR A MOMENT.
149Chapter VI. — IMMINENCY OF WAR OR DUEL BETWEEN THE BRITANNIC AND PRUSSIAN MAJESTIES.
436"EXTRACTUS PROTOCOLLORUM IN INQUISITIONS-SACHEN,"—THAT IS TO SAY, EXTRACT OF PROTOCOLS IN INQUEST "CONTRA FRIEDRICH WILHELM MENZEL AND JOHANN BENJAMIN ERFURTH."
150CAUSE FIRST: THE HANOVER JOINT-HERITAGES, WHICH ARE NOT IN A LIQUID STATE.
437FRIEDRICH IS VISIBLE, IN HOLLAND, TO THE NAKED EYE, FOR SOME MINUTES (June 23d, 1755).
151CAUSE SECOND: THE TROUBLES OF MECKLENBURG.
438Book XVII—THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR: FIRST CAMPAIGN.—1756–1757.
152CAUSES THIRD AND FOURTH:—AND CAUSE FIFTH, WORTH ALL THE OTHERS.
439Chapter I.—WHAT FRIEDRICH HAD READ IN THE MENZEL DOCUMENTS.: HOW FRIEDRICH DISCOVERED THE MYSTERY. CONCERNING MENZEL AND WEINGARTEN.
153TROUBLES OF MECKLENBURG, FOR THE LAST TIME.
440Chapter II.—ENGLISH DIPLOMACIES ABROAD, IN PROSPECT OF A FRENCH WAR.
154ONE NUSSLER SETTLES THE AHLDEN HERITAGES; SENDS THE MONEY HOME IN BOXES.
441THE TRIUMPHANT HANBURY TREATY BECOMES, ITSELF, NOTHING OR LESS;—BUT PRODUCES A FRIEDRICH TREATY, FOLLOWED BY RESULTS WHICH SURPRISE EVERYBODY.
155Chapter VII. — A MARRIAGE: NOT THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE: CROWN-PRINCE DEEP IN TROUBLE.: CROWN-PRINCE'S DOMESTICITIES SEEN IN A FLASH OF LIGHTNING.
442THERE HAS BEEN A COUNTER-TREATY GOING ON AT VERSAILLES IN THE INTERIM; WHICH HEREUPON STARTS OUT, AND TUMBLES THE WHOLLY ASTONISHED EUROPEAN DIPLOMACIES HEELS-OVER-HEAD.
156Chapter VIII. — CROWN-PRINCE GETTING BEYOND HIS DEPTH IN TROUBLE.
443Chapter III.—FRENCH-ENGLISH WAR BREAKS OUT.: KING FRIEDRICH'S ENIGMA GETS MORE AND MORE STRINGENT.
157Chapter IX. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE SHALL BE OR SHALL NOT BE.
444Chapter IV.—FRIEDRICH PUTS A QUESTION AT VIENNA, TWICE OVER.
158WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS FIRST: ENGLAND SHALL SAY YES OR SAY NO.
445Chapter V.—FRIEDRICH BLOCKADES THE SAXONS IN PIRNA COUNTRY.
159DUBOURGAY STRIKES A LIGHT FOR THE ENGLISH COURT.
446Chapter VI.—BATTLE OF LOBOSITZ.
160WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS SECOND: ENGLAND SHALL HAVE SAID NO.
447Chapter VII.—THE SAXONS GET OUT OF PIRNA ON DISMAL TERMS.
161WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS THIRD: MAJESTY HIMSELF WILL CHOOSE, THEN.
448Chapter VIII.—WINTER IN DRESDEN.
162HOW FRIEDRICH PRINCE OF BAIREUTH CAME TO BE THE MAN, AFTER ALL.
449BOOK XVIII.—SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT.—1757–1759.
163DOUBLE-MARRIAGE, ON THE EDGE OF SHIPWRECK, FLIES OFF A KIND OF CARRIER-PIGEON, OR NOAH'S-DOVE, TO ENGLAND, WITH CRY FOR HELP.
450Chapter I.—THE CAMPAIGN OPENS.
164BOOK VII. — FEARFUL SHIPWRECK OF THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT. — Feb.-Nov., 1730.
451REICH'S THUNDER, SLIGHT SURVEY OF IT; WITH QUESTION, WHITHERWARD, IF ANY-WHITHER.
165Chapter I. — ENGLAND SENDS THE EXCELLENCY HOTHAM TO BERLIN.
452FRIEDRICH SUDDENLY MARCHES ON PRAG.
166MAJESTY AND CROWN-PRINCE WITH HIM MAKE A RUN TO DRESDEN.
453Chapter II.—BATTLE OF PRAG.
167HOW VILLA WAS RECEIVED IN ENGLAND.
454Chapter III.—PRAG CANNOT BE GOT AT ONCE.
168EXCELLENCY HOTHAM ARRIVES IN BERLIN.
455COLONEL MAYER WITH HIS "FREE-CORPS" PARTY MAKES A VISIT, OF DIDACTIC NATURE, TO THE REICH.
169Chapter II. — LANGUAGE OF BIRDS: EXCELLENCY HOTHAM PROVES UNAVAILING.
456OF THE SINGULAR QUASI-BEWITCHED CONDITION OF ENGLAND; AND WHAT IS TO BE HOPED FROM IT FOR THE COMMON CAUSE, IF PRAG GO AMISS.
170A PEEP INTO THE NOSTI-GRUMKOW CORRESPONDENCE CAUGHT UP IN ST. MARY AXE.
457PHENOMENA OF PRAG SIEGE:—PRAG SIEGE IS INTERRUPTED.
171THE HOTHAM DESPATCHES.
458Chapter IV.—BATTLE OF KOLIN.: THE MARIA-THERESA ORDER, NEW KNIGHTHOOD FOR AUSTRIA.
172HIS MAJESTY GETS SIGHT OF THE ST.-MARY-AXE DOCUMENTS; BUT NOTHING FOLLOWS FROM IT.
459Chapter V.—FRIEDRICH AT LEITMERITZ, HIS WORLD OF ENEMIES COMING ON.: PRINCE AUGUST WILHELM FINDS A BAD PROBLEM AT JUNG-BUNZLAU; AND DOES IT BADLY: FRIEDRICH THEREUPON HAS TO RISE FROM LEITMERITZ, AND TAKE THE FIELD ELSEWHERE, IN BITTER HASTE AND IMPATIENCE, WITH OUTLOOKS WORSE THAN EVER.
173ST. PETER'S CHURCH IN BERLIN HAS AN ACCIDENT.
460Chapter VI.—DEATH OF WINTERFELD.
174Chapter III. — CAMP OF RADEWITZ.
461Chapter VII.—FRIEDRICH IN THURINGEN, HIS WORLD OF ENEMIES ALL COME.
175Chapter IV. — EXCELLENCY HOTHAM QUITS BERLIN IN HASTE.
462I. FRIEDRICH'S MARCH TO ERFURT FROM DRESDEN—(31st August-13th September, 1757).
176Chapter V. — JOURNEY TO THE REICH.
463II. THE SOUBISE HILDBURGHAUSEN PEOPLE TAKE INTO THE HILLS; FRIEDRICH IN ERFURT NEIGHBORHOOD, HANGING ON, WEEK AFTER WEEK, IN AN AGONY OF INACTION (13th September-10th October).
177Chapter VI. — JOURNEY HOMEWARDS FROM THE REICH; CATASTROPHE ON JOURNEY HOMEWARDS.: CATASTROPHE ON JOURNEY HOMEWARDS.
464LAMENTATION-PSALMS OF FRIEDRICH.
178Chapter VII. — CATASTROPHE, AND MAJESTY, ARRIVE IN BERLIN.: SCENE AT BERLIN ON MAJESTY'S ARRIVAL.
465III. RUMOR OF AN INROAD ON BERLIN SUDDENLY SETS FRIEDRICH ON MARCH THITHER: INROAD TAKES EFFECT—WITH IMPORTANT RESULTS, CHIEFLY IN A LEFT-HAND FORM.
179Chapter VIII. — SEQUEL TO CROWN-PRINCE AND FRIENDS.
466SCENE AT REGENSBURG IN THE INTERIM.
180Chapter IX. — COURT-MARTIAL ON CROWN-PRINCE AND CONSORTS.
467BOOK XVIII (CONTINUED)—SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT. 1757–1759.
181CROWN-PRINCE IN CUSTRIN.
468Chapter VIII.—BATTLE OF ROSSBACH.: CATASTROPHE OF DAUPHINESS (Saturday, 5th November, 1757).
182SENTENCE OF COURT-MARTIAL.
469Chapter IX.—FRIEDRICH MARCHES FOR SILESIA.: FRIEDRICH'S SPEECH TO HIS GENERALS (Parchwitz, 3d December, 1757). [From RETZOW, i. 240–242.]
183KATTE'S END, 6th NOVEMBER, 1780.
470Chapter X.—BATTLE OF LEUTHEN.
184BOOK VIII. — CROWN-PRINCE REPRIEVED: LIFE AT CUSTRIN—November, 1730-February, 1732.
471Chapter XI.—WINTER IN BRESLAU: THIRD CAMPAIGN OPENS.
185Chapter I. — CHAPLAIN MULLER WAITS ON THE CROWN-PRINCE.
472OF THE ENGLISH SUBSIDY.
186Chapter II. — CROWN-PRINCE TO REPENT AND NOT PERISH.: CROWN-PRINCE BEGINS A NEW COURSE.
473FRIEDRICH, AS INDEED PITT'S PEOPLE AND OTHERS HAVE DONE, TAKES THE FIELD UNCOMMONLY EARLY: FRIEDRICH GOES UPON SCHWEIDNITZ, SCHWEIDNITZ, AS THE PREFACE TO WHATEVER HIS CAMPAIGN MAY BE.
187Chapter III. — WILHELMINA IS TO WED THE PRINCE OF BAIREUTH.
474Chapter XII.—SIEGE OF OLMUTZ.
188Chapter IV. — CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN PREUSSEN AND ELSEWHERE.
475Chapter XIII.—BATTLE OF ZORNDORF.: THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR OVER AGAIN—THAT IS TO SAY, FRIEDRICH AT HAND-GRIPS WITH FERMOR AND HIS RUSSIANS (25TH AUGUST, 1758).
189CASE OF SCHLUBHUT.
476Chapter XIV.—BATTLE OF HOCHKIRCH.
190CASE OF THE CRIMINAL-COLLEGIUM ITSELF.
477DAUN AND THE REICHS ARMY INVADE SAXONY, IN FRIEDRICH'S ABSENCE.
191SKIPPER JENKINS IN THE GULF OF FLORIDA.
478FRIEDRICH INTERVENING, DAUN DRAWS BACK; INTRENCHES HIMSELF IN NEIGHBORHOOD TO DRESDEN AND PIRNA; FRIEDRICH FOLLOWING HIM. FOUR ARMIES STANDING THERE, IN DEAD-LOCK, FOR A MONTH; WITH ISSUE, A FLANK-MARCH ON THE PART OF FRIEDRICH'S ARMY, WHICH HALTS AT HOCH KIRCH (September 12th-October 10th, 1758).
192BABY CARLOS GETS HIS APANAGE.
479WHAT ACTUALLY BEFELL AT HOCHKIRCH (Saturday, 14th October, 1758).
193Chapter V. — INTERVIEW OF MAJESTY AND CROWN-PRINCE AT CUSTRIN.
480SEQUEL OF HOCHKIRCH; THE CAMPAIGN ENDS IN A WAY SURPRISING TO AN ATTENTIVE PUBLIC (22d October-20th November, 1758).
194GRUMKOW'S "PROTOKOLL" OF THE 15th AUGUST, 1731; OR SUMMARY OF WHAT TOOK PLACE AT CUSTRIN THAT DAY.
481FRIEDRICH MARCHES, ENIGMATICALLY, NOT ON GLOGAU, BUT ON REICHENBACH AND GORLITZ; TO DAUN'S ASTONISHMENT.
195SCHULENBURG'S THREE LETTERS TO GRUMKOW, ON VISITS TO THE CROWN-PRINCE, DURING THE CUSTRIN TIME.
482FELDMARSCHALL DAUN AND THE REICHS ARMY TRY SOME SIEGE OF DRESDEN (9th-16th November).
196HIS MAJESTY'S BUILDING OPERATIONS.
483BOOK XIX.—FRIEDRICH LIKE TO BE OVERWHELMED IN THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR.—1759–1760.
197Chapter VI. — WILHELMINA'S WEDDING.
484Chapter I.—PRELIMINARIES TO A FOURTH CAMPAIGN.: OF THE SMALL-WAR IN SPRING, 1759. THERE ARE FIVE DISRUPTIONS OF THAT GRAND CORDON (February-April); AND FERDINAND OF BRUNSWICK FIGHTS HIS BATTLE OF BERGEN (April 13th).
198BOOK IX. — LAST STAGE OF FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP: LIFE IN RUPPIN. — 1732–1736.
485Chapter II.—GENERAL DOHNA; DICTATOR WEDELL: BATTLE OF ZULLICHAU.: DICTATOR WEDELL FIGHTS HIS BATTLE (Monday, 23d July, 1759), WITHOUT SUCCESS.
199Chapter I. — PRINCESS ELIZABETH CHRISTINA OF BRUNSWICK-BEVERN.
486Chapter III.—FRIEDRICH IN PERSON ATTEMPTS THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM; NOT WITH SUCCESS.
200WHO HIS MAJESTY'S CHOICE IS; AND WHAT THE CROWN-PRINCE THINKS OF IT.
487Chapter IV.—BATTLE OF KUNERSDORF.
201DUKE OF LORRAINE ARRIVES IN POTSDAM AND IN BERLIN.
488Chapter V.—SAXONY WITHOUT DEFENCE: SCHMETTAU SURRENDERS DRESDEN.
202BETROTHAL OF THE CROWN-PRINCE TO THE BRUNSWICK CHARMER, NIECE OF IMPERIAL MAJESTY, MONDAY EVENING, 10th MARCH, 1732.
489THE "REICHS ARMY" 80 CALLED HAS ENTERED SAXONY, UNDER FINE OMENS; DOES SOME FEATS OF SIEGING (August 7th-23d)—WITH AN EYE ON DRESDEN AS THE CROWNING ONE.
203Chapter II. — SMALL INCIDENTS AT RUPPIN.
490AUSTRIAN REICHS ARMY DOES ITS CROWNING FEAT (August 26th-September 4th): DIARY OF WHAT IS CALLED THE "SIEGE" OF DRESDEN.
204Chapter III. — THE SALZBURGERS.
491Chapter VI.—PRINCE HENRI MAKES A MARCH OF FIFTY HOURS; THE RUSSIANS CANNOT FIND LODGING IN SILESIA.
205Chapter IV. — PRUSSIAN MAJESTY VISITS THE KAISER.
492DAUN, SOLTIKOF AND COMPANY AGAIN HAVE A COLLOQUY (Bautzen, September 15th); AFTER WHICH EVERYBODY STARTS ON HIS SPECIAL COURSE OF ACTION.
206Chapter V. — GHOST OF THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE RISES; TO NO PURPOSE.: SESSION OF TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT, 6th DECEMBER, 1732.
493FRIEDRICH MANAGES (September 24th-October 24th) TO GET THE RUSSIANS SENT HOME; AND HIMSELF FALLS LAMED WITH GOUT.
207Chapter VI. — KING AUGUST MEDITATING GREAT THINGS FOR POLAND.
494Chapter VII.—FRIEDRICH REAPPEARS ON THE FIELD, AND IN SEVEN DAYS AFTER COMES THE CATASTROPHE OF MAXEN.
208Chapter VII. — CROWN-PRINCE'S MARRIAGE.
495Chapter VIII.—MISCELLANEA IN WINTER-QUARTERS, 1759–1760.
209Chapter VIII. — KING AUGUST DIES; AND POLAND TAKES FIRE.
496SERENE HIGHNESS OF WURTEMBERG, AT FULDA (November 30th, 1759), IS JUST ABOUT "FIRING VICTORIA," AND GIVING A BALL TO BEAUTY AND FASHION, IN HONOR OF A CERTAIN EVENT;—BUT IS UNPLEASANTLY INTERRUPTED.
210POLAND HAS TO FIND A NEW KING.
497WHAT IS PERPETUAL PRESIDENT MAUPERTUIS DOING, ALL THIS WHILE? IS HE STILL IN BERLIN; OR WHERE IN THE UNIVERSE IS HE? ALAS, POOR MAUPERTUIS!
211OF THE CANDIDATES; OF THE CONDITIONS. HOW THE ELECTION WENT.
498GRAND FRENCH INVASION-SCHEME COMES ENTIRELY TO WRECK (Quiberon Bay, 20th November, 1759): OF CONTROLLER-GENERAL SILHOUETTE, AND THE OUTLOOKS OF FRANCE, FINANCIAL AND OTHER.
212POLAND ON FIRE; DANTZIG STANDS SIEGE.
499FRIEDRICH, STRANGE TO SAY, PUBLISHES (March-June, 1760) AN EDITION OF HIS POEMS. QUESTION, "WHO WROTE Matinees du Roi de Prusse?"—FOR THE SECOND, AND POSITIVELY THE LAST TIME.
213Chapter IX. — KAISER'S SHADOW-HUNT HAS CAUGHT FIRE.
500PEACE-NEGOTIATIONS HOPEFUL TO FRIEDRICH ALL THROUGH WINTER; BUT THE FRENCH WON'T. VOLTAIRE, AND HIS STYLE OF CORRESPONDING.
214SUBSEQUENT COURSE OF THE WAR, IN THE ITALIAN PART OF IT.
501VOLTAIRE ON FRIEDRICH, TO DIFFERENT THIRD-PARTIES, DURING THIS WAR.
215COURSE OF THE WAR, IN THE GERMAN PART OF IT.
502VOLTAIRE ON SURROUNDING OBJECTS, CHIEFLY ON MAUPERTUIS, AND THE BATTLES.
216Chapter X. — CROWN-PRINCE GOES TO THE RHINE CAMPAIGN.
503FRIEDRICH TO VOLTAIRE, BEFORE AND DURING THESE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
217GLIMPSE OF LIEUTENANT CHASOT, AND OF OTHER ACQUISITIONS.
504FRIEDRICH HAS SENT LORD MARISCHAL TO SPAIN: OTHER FOND HOPES OF FRIEDRICH'S.
218CROWN-PRINCE'S VISIT TO BAIREUTH ON THE WAY HOME.
505Chapter IX.—PRELIMINARIES TO A FIFTH CAMPAIGN.
219Chapter XI. — IN PAPA'S SICK-ROOM; PRUSSIAN INSPECTIONS: END OF WAR.
506Volume 20
220BOOK X. — AT REINSBERG. - 1736–1740.
507BOOK XX.—FRIEDRICH IS NOT TO BE OVERWHELMED: THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR GRADUALLY ENDS—25th April, 1760–15th February, 1763.
221Chapter I. — MANSION OF REINSBERG.: OF MONSIEUR JORDAN AND THE LITERARY SET.
508Chapter I.—FIFTH CAMPAIGN OPENS.
222Chapter II. — OF VOLTAIRE AND THE LITERARY CORRESPONDENCES.
509Chapter II.—FRIEDRICH BESIEGES DRESDEN.
223Chapter III. — CROWN-PRINCE MAKES A MORNING CALL.
510CAPTURE OF GLATZ (26th July, 1760).
224Chapter IV. — NEWS OF THE DAY.
511DIALOGUE OF FRIEDRICH AND HENRI (from their Private Correspondence: June 7th-July 29th, 1760).
225OF BERG AND JULICH AGAIN; AND OF LUISCIUS WITH THE ONE RAZOR.
512DUKE FERDINAND'S BATTLE OF WARBURG (31st July, 1760).
226Summary is, these Mediating Powers will be of no help to his Majesty;
513Chapter III.—BATTLE OF LIEGNITZ.
227Chapter V. — VISIT AT LOO.
514LOUDON IS TRYING A STROKE-OF-HAND ON BRESLAU, IN THE GLATZ FASHION, IN THE INTERIM (July 30th-August 3d).
228CROWN-PRINCE BECOMES A FREEMASON; AND IS HARANGUED BY MONSIEUR DE BIELFELD.
515FRIEDRICH ON MARCH, FOR THE THIRD TIME, TO RESCUE SILESIA (August 1st-15th).
229SECKENDORF GETS LODGED IN GRATZ.
516BATTLE, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF LIEGNITZ, DOES ENSUE (Friday morning, 15th August, 1760).
230THE EAR OF JENKINS RE-EMERGES.
517Chapter IV.—DAUN IN WRESTLE WITH FRIEDRICH IN THE SILESIAN HILLS.: THE RUSSIANS MAKE A RAID ON BERLIN, FOR RELIEF OF DAUN AND THEIR OWN BEHOOF (October 3d-12th, 1760).
231Chapter VI. — LAST YEAR OF REINSBERG; JOURNEY TO PREUSSEN.
518Chapter V.—BATTLE OF TORGAU.: FIGHT OF KLOSTER KAMPEN (Night of October 15th-16th); WESEL NOT TO BE HAD BY DUKE FERDINAND.
232PINE'S HORACE; AND THE ANTI-MACHIAVEL.
519Chapter VI.—WINTER-QUARTERS 1760–1761.
233FRIEDRICH IN PREUSSEN AGAIN; AT THE STUD OF TRAKEHNEN. A TRAGICALLY GREAT EVENT COMING ON.
520KING FRIEDRICH IN THE APEL HOUSE AT LEIPZIG (8th December, 1760–17th March, 1761).
234Chapter VII. — LAST YEAR OF REINSBERG: TRANSIT OF BALTIMORE AND OTHER PERSONS AND THINGS.
521INTERVIEW WITH HERR PROFESSOR GELLERT (Thursday, 18th December, 1760).
235BIELFELD, WHAT HE SAW AT REINSBERG AND AROUND.
522DIALOGUE WITH GENERAL SALDERN (in the Apel House, Leipzig, 21st January, 1761).
236TURK WAR ENDS; SPANISH WAR BEGINS. A WEDDING IN PETERSBURG.
523THERE ARE SOME WAR-MOVEMENTS DURING WINTER; GENERAL FINANCIERING DIFFICULTIES. CHOISEUL PROPOSES PEACE.
237Chapter VIII. — DEATH OF FRIEDRICH WILHELM.
524Chapter VII.—SIXTH CAMPAIGN OPENS: CAMP OF BUNZELWITZ.
238BOOK XI. — FRIEDRICH TAKES THE REINS IN HAND. — June-December, 1740.
525OF FERDINAND'S BATTLE OF VELLINGHAUSEN (15th-16th July); AND THE CAMPAIGN 1761.
239Chapter I. — PHENOMENA OF FRIEDRICH'S ACCESSION.
526THIRD SIEGE OF COLBERG.
240FRIEDRICH WILL MAKE MEN HAPPY: CORN-MAGAZINES.
527Chapter VIII.—LOUDON POUNCES UPON SCHWEIDNITZ ONE NIGHT (LAST OF SEPTEMBER, 1761).
241ABOLITION OF LEGAL TORTURE.
528Chapter IX.—TRAITOR WARKOTSCH.
242WILL HAVE PHILOSOPHERS ABOUT HIM, AND A REAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
529Chapter X.—FRIEDRICH IN BRESLAU; HAS NEWS FROM PETERSBURG.
243AND EVERY ONE SHALL GET TO HEAVEN IN HIS OWN WAY.
530THE PITT CATASTROPHE: HOW THE PEACE-NEGOTIATION WENT OFF BY EXPLOSION; HOW PITT WITHDREW (3d October, 1761), AND THERE CAME A SPANISH WAR NEVERTHELESS.
244FREE PRESS, AND NEWSPAPERS THE BEST INSTRUCTORS.
531TIFF OF QUARREL BETWEEN KING AND HENRI (March-April, 1762).
245INTENDS TO BE PRACTICAL WITHAL, AND EVERY INCH A KING.
532BRIGHT NEWS FROM PETERSBURG (certain, Jan. 19th); WHICH GROW EVER BRIGHTER; AND BECOME A STAR-OF-DAY FOR FRIEDRICH.
246BEHAVIOR TO HIS MOTHER; TO HIS WIFE.
533WHAT COLONEL HORDT AND THE OTHERS SAW AT PETERSBURG (January-July, 1762).
247NO CHANGE IN HIS FATHER'S METHODS OR MINISTRIES.
534Chapter XI.—SEVENTH CAMPAIGN OPENS.
248Chapter II. — THE HOMAGINGS.: FRIEDRICH ACCEPTS THE HOMAGES, PERSONALLY, IN THREE PLACES.
535Chapter XII.—SIEGE OF SCHWEIDNITZ: SEVENTH CAMPAIGN ENDS.
249Chapter III. — FRIEDRICH MAKES AN EXCURSION, NOT OF DIRECT SORT INTO THE CLEVE COUNTRIES.
536Chapter XIII.—PEACE OF HUBERTSBURG.
250FRIEDRICH STRIKES OFF TO THE LEFT, AND HAS A VIEW OF STRASBURG FOR TWO DAYS.
537Volume 21
251FRIEDRICH FINDS M. DE MAUPERTUIS; NOT YET M. DE VOLTAIRE.
538BOOK XXI.—AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF FRIEDRICH'S LIFE—1763–1786.
252Chapter IV. — VOLTAIRE'S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH FRIEDRICH.
539Chapter I.—PREFATORY.
253PARTICULARS OF FIRST INTERVIEW, ON SEVERE SCRUTINY.
540Chapter II.—REPAIRING OF A RUINED PRUSSIA.
254WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF THE INTERVIEW TWENTY YEARS AFTERWARDS
541LANDRATH NUSSLER AND THE KING (30th March-3d April, 1763).
255WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF THE INTERVIEW AT THE TIME.
542III. SATURDAY, APRIL 3d, IN THE SCHLOSS AGAIN: NUSSLER AND LANDRATHS. To them, the KING.
256Chapter V. — AFFAIR OF HERSTAL.
543KRIEGSRATH RODEN AND THE KING (6th-13th June, 1763).
257HOW THE HERSTALLERS HAD BEHAVED TO FRIEDRICH WILHELM.
544OF FRIEDRICH'S NEW EXCISE SYSTEM.
258FRIEDRICH TAKES THE ROD OUT OF PICKLE.
545THE NEUE PALAIS, IN SANS-SOUCI NEIGHBORHOOD, IS FOUNDED AND FINISHED (1763–1770).
259WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF HERSTAL.
546"OBITUARY IN FRIEDRICH'S CIRCLE TILL 1771."
260Chapter VI. — RETURNS BY HANOVER; DOES NOT CALL ON HIS ROYAL UNCLE THERE.
547Chapter III.—TROUBLES IN POLAND.
261Chapter VII. — WITHDRAWS TO REINSBERG, HOPING A PEACEABLE WINTER.
548KING OF POLAND DIES; AND THERE ENSUE HUGE ANARCHIES IN THAT COUNTRY.
262WILHELMINA'S RETURN-VISIT.
549EX-LOVER PONIATOWSKI BECOMES KING OF POLAND (7th Sept. 1764), AND IS CROWNED WITHOUT LOSS OF HIS HAIR.
263UNEXPECTED NEWS AT REINSBERG.
550FOR SEVERAL YEARS THE DISSIDENT QUESTION CANNOT BE GOT SETTLED; CONFEDERATION OF RADOM (23d June, 1767–5th March, 1768) PUSHES IT INTO SETTLEMENT.
264Chapter VIII. — THE KAISER'S DEATH.
551CONFEDERATION OF BAR ENSUES, ON THE PER-CONTRA SIDE (March 28th, 1768); AND, AS FIRST RESULT OF ITS ACHIEVEMENTS (October 6th, 1768), A TURK-RUSSIAN WAR.
265Chapter IX. — RESOLUTION FORMED AT REINSBERG IN CONSEQUENCE.
552Chapter IV.—PARTITION OF POLAND.
266MYSTERY IN BERLIN, FOR SEVEN WEEKS, WHILE THE PREPARATIONS GO ON; VOLTAIRE VISITS FRIEDRICH TO DECIPHER IT, BUT CANNOT.
553FIRST INTERVIEW BETWEEN FRIEDRICH AND KAISER JOSEPH (Neisse, 25th-28th August, 1769).
267VIEW OF FRIEDRICH BEHIND THE VEIL.
554NEXT YEAR THERE IS A SECOND INTERVIEW; FRIEDRICH MAKING A RETURN-VISIT DURING THE KAISER'S MORAVIAN REVIEWS (Camp of Mahrisch-Neustadt, 3d-7th September, 1770).
268EXCELLENCY BOTTA HAS AUDIENCE; THEN EXCELLENCY DICKENS, AND OTHERS: DECEMBER 6th, THE MYSTERY IS OUT.
555RUSSIAN-TURK WAR, FIRST TWO CAMPAIGNS.
269MASKED BALL, AT BERLIN, 12th-13th DECEMBER.
556PRINCE HENRI HAS BEEN TO SWEDEN; IS SEEN AT PETERSBURG IN MASQUERADE (on or about New-year's Day, 1771); AND DOES GET HOME, WITH RESULTS THAT ARE IMPORTANT.
270BOOK XII. — FIRST SILESIAN WAR, AWAKENING A GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE, BEGINS. — December, 1740-May, 1741.
557THE EMPRESS-QUEEN TO PRINCE KAUNITZ (Undated: date must be Vienna, February, 1772).
271Chapter I. — OF SCHLESIEN, OR SILESIA.: HISTORICAL EPOCHS OF SCHLESIEN;—AFTER THE QUADS AND MARCHMEN.
558WHAT FRIEDRICH DID WITH HIS NEW ACQUISITION.
272Chapter II. — FRIEDRICH MARCHES ON GLOGAU.
559Chapter V.—A CHAPTER OF MISCELLANIES.
273FRIEDRICH AT CROSSEN, AND STILL IN HIS OWN TERRITORY, 14th-16th DECEMBER;—STEPS INTO SCHLESIEN.
560HERR DOCTOR ZIMMERMANN, THE FAMOUS AUTHOR OF THE BOOK "ON SOLITUDE," WALKS REVERENTIALLY BEFORE FRIEDRICH'S DOOR IN THE DUSK OF AN OCTOBER EVENING: AND HAS A ROYAL INTERVIEW NEXT DAY.
274WHAT GLOGAU, AND THE GOVERNMENT AT BRESLAU, DID UPON IT.
561SISTER ULRIQUE, QUEEN-DOWAGER OF SWEDEN, REVISITS HER NATIVE PLACE (December, 1771-August, 1772).
275MARCH TO WEICHAU (SATURDAY, 17th, AND STAY SUNDAY THERE); TO MILKAU (MONDAY, 19th); GET TO HERRENDORF, WITHIN SIGHT OF GLOGAU, DECEMBER 22d.
562WILHELMINA'S DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH FREDERIKE SOPHIE, DUCHESS OF WURTEMBERG, APPEARS AT FERNEY (September, 1773).
276Chapter III. — PROBLEM OF GLOGAU.
563No. 1. DR BURNEY HAS SIGHT OF VOLTAIRE (July, 1770).
277WHAT BERLIN IS SAYING; WHAT FRIEDRICH IS THINKING.
564NO. 2. A REVEREND MR. SHERLOCK SEES VOLTAIRE, AND EVEN DINES WITH HIM (April, 1776).
278JORDAN TO THE KING (successively from Berlin—somewhat abridged.)
565GENERAL OR FIELDMARSHAL CONWAY, DIRECT FROM THE LONDON CIRCLES, ATTENDS ONE OF FRIEDRICH'S REVIEWS (August-September, 1774).
279SCHWERIN AT LIEGNITZ; FRIEDRICH HUSHES UP THE GLOGAU PROBLEM, AND STARTS WITH HIS BEST SPEED FOR BRESLAU.
566EXUBERANT SHERLOCK AND ELEVEN OTHER ENGLISH ARE PRESENTED TO FRIEDRICH ON A COURT OCCASION (8th October, 1777); AND TWO OF THEM GET SPOKEN TO, AND SPEAK EACH A WORD. EXCELLENCY HUGH ELLIOT IS THEIR INTRODUCER.
280Chapter IV. — BRESLAU UNDER SOFT PRESSURE.: KING ENTERS BRESLAW; STAYS THERE, GRACIOUS AND VIGILANT, FOUR DAYS (Jan. 2d-6th, 1741).
567Chapter VI.—THE BAVARIAN WAR.
281Chapter V. — FRIEDRICH PUSHES FORWARD TOWARDS BRIEG AND NEISSE.: FRIEDRICH COMES ACROSS TO OTTMACHAU; SITS THERE, IN SURVEY OF NEISSE, TILL HIS CANNON COME.
568Chapter VII.—MILLER ARNOLD'S LAWSUIT.: "PROTOCOL [of December 11th, Title already given; [Supra, p. 439 n.] Docketing adds], WHICH IS TO BE PRINTED."
282Chapter VI. — NEISSE IS BOMBARDED.: BROWNE VANISHES IN A SLIGHT FLASH OF FIRE.
569Chapter VIII.—THE FURSTENBUND: FRIEDRICH'S LAST YEARS.
283Chapter VII. — AT VERSAILLES, THE MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY CHANGES HIS SHIRT, AND BELLEISLE IS SEEN WITH PAPERS.: OF BELLEISLE AND HIS PLANS.
570PRINCE DE LIGNE, AFTER TEN YEARS, SEES FRIEDRICH A SECOND TIME; TIME; AND REPORTS WHAT WAS SAID.
284Chapter VIII. — PHENOMENA IN PETERSBURG.
571HOW GENERAL VON DER MARWITZ, IN EARLY BOYHOOD, SAW FRIEDRICH THE GREAT THREE TIMES (1782–1785).
285Chapter IX. — FRIEDRICH RETURNS TO SILESIA.
572GENERAL BOUILLE, HOME FROM HIS WEST-INDIAN EXPLOITS, VISITS FRIEDRICH (August 5th-11th, 1784).
286SKIRMISH OF BAUMGARTEN, 27th FEBRUARY, 1741.
573Chapter IX.—FRIEDRICH'S LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH.
287ASPECTS OF BRESLAU.
574APPENDIX.
