Kamenskoi (Kamensky) - Russian or Prussian?
Russian or Prussian? Hero or Villain? Marwitz states in his memoirs (Seite 210), apparently relating what he had heard from Major (later Field…
Read more →Russian or Prussian? Hero or Villain? Marwitz states in his memoirs (Seite 210), apparently relating what he had heard from Major (later Field…
Read more →Today is the the 129th (only 129, how the world changes) anniversary of the untimely death of Frederick III and the ascension of Wilhelm II. You could…
Read more →Time for another Marwitz instalment, this time a couple of small, superstitious observations from 1806. In the lead up to the war with Napoleon (der…
Read more →Another incident, this time at the Huldigung for Friedrich Wilhelm III in 1798, sounds like a good day out. Somewhat of an anti-democracy theme so…
Read more →Eine weitere Episode aus Marwitz's Lebensbeschreibung, dieses Mal bei der Trauerfeier Friedrich Wilhelm des Zweiten in 1797 (die paragraphen sind…
Read more →This time from Friedrich von der Marwitz's Lebensbeschreibung. Von der Marwitz tells us that whilst travelling Frederick the Great liked to stay with…
Read more →Well here I am in a hotel on Monbijouplatz on the 18th März, I knew the Schloß was no longer here but a plaque might have been nice. Same for In den…
Read more →Today is the Anniversary of the death of William I, last solely Prussian King, and the passing of the crown, briefly unfortunately, to his son…
Read more →Ich habe letzte Nacht "Die Schlacht bei Zorndorf" ausgelesen. Es hat mir sehr gut gefallen. Ein Paar anschließende Anmerkungen: In dieser Rede des…
Read more →Eine kleine, interessante aber etwas grausame Episode beim Schlacht bei Zorndorf, aus "Die Schlacht von Zorndorf" von Dr Adolf Schottmüller (Berlin…
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