HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II OF PRUSSIA, Volume 19    
      FREDERICK THE GREAT    
      by Thomas Carlyle    

 

 
      Contents    
 BOOK XIX.—FRIEDRICH LIKE TO BE      OVERWHELMED IN THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR.—1759-1760. 

 Chapter 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). 

 Chapter II.—GENERAL DOHNA; DICTATOR      WEDELL: BATTLE OF ZULLICHAU. 
 DICTATOR WEDELL FIGHTS HIS BATTLE (Monday, 23d        July, 1759), WITHOUT SUCCESS. 

 Chapter III.—FRIEDRICH IN PERSON      ATTEMPTS THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM; NOT WITH SUCCESS. 

  Chapter IV.—BATTLE OF KUNERSDORF. 

 Chapter V.—SAXONY WITHOUT DEFENCE:      SCHMETTAU SURRENDERS DRESDEN. 
 THE "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. 
         AUSTRIAN REICHS ARMY DOES ITS CROWNING FEAT (August 26th-September 4th):        DIARY OF WHAT IS CALLED THE "SIEGE" OF DRESDEN. 

 Chapter VI.—PRINCE HENRI MAKES A MARCH      OF FIFTY HOURS; THE RUSSIANS CANNOT FIND LODGING IN SILESIA. 
 DAUN, SOLTIKOF AND COMPANY AGAIN HAVE A        COLLOQUY (Bautzen, September 15th); AFTER WHICH EVERYBODY STARTS ON HIS        SPECIAL COURSE OF ACTION. 
  FRIEDRICH        MANAGES (September 24th-October 24th) TO GET THE RUSSIANS SENT HOME; AND        HIMSELF FALLS LAMED WITH GOUT. 

 Chapter VII.—FRIEDRICH REAPPEARS ON THE      FIELD, AND IN SEVEN DAYS AFTER COMES THE CATASTROPHE OF MAXEN. 

 Chapter VIII.—MISCELLANEA IN      WINTER-QUARTERS, 1759-1760. 
 SERENE 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. 
  WHAT IS        PERPETUAL PRESIDENT MAUPERTUIS DOING, ALL THIS WHILE? IS HE STILL IN        BERLIN; OR WHERE IN THE UNIVERSE IS HE? ALAS, POOR MAUPERTUIS! 
 GRAND FRENCH INVASION-SCHEME COMES ENTIRELY TO        WRECK (Quiberon Bay, 20th November, 1759): OF CONTROLLER-GENERAL        SILHOUETTE, AND THE OUTLOOKS OF FRANCE, FINANCIAL AND OTHER. 
 FRIEDRICH, 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. 
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