Prussian Curiosities

Prussian Curiosities

Alles Gute Fritz!

24-01-2024

Frederick the Great was born this day in 1712, to celebrate this year I bought a copy of Frederick The Great by Nancy Mitford, I'm hoping it's not too…

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Leuthen - C.F. Scherenberg

22-07-2022

Another acquisition this month; Leuthen (Gedicht) by Christian Friedrich Scherenberg. I have yet to read it all, but the first verse seems to fit well…

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Wolfersdorf at Torgau

28-01-2021

A great little anecdote from Thomas Carlyle's History of Frederick the Great, how Colonel von Wolfersdorf "beautifully defends himself in Torgau", and…

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