HISTORY

OF

FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA,

CALLED

FREDERICK THE GREAT.

BY

THOMAS CARLYLE.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOL. VIII.

LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL,

LIMITED.

THE SHILLING EDITION OF

THOMAS CARLYLE'S WORKS

COMPLETE.

SARTOR RESARTUS, 1 Vol. With Portrait of Thomas
Carlyle.

FRENCH REVOLUTION. A History. 3 Vols.
PAST AND PRESENT, 1 Vol.

ON HEROES AND HERO WORSHIP, AND THE
HEROIC IN HISTORY, 1 Vol.

THE LIFE OF SCHILLER, AND EXAMINATION OF HIS WORKS, 1 Vol.

OLIVER CROMWELL'S LETTERS AND SPEECHES, 5 Vols. With Portrait of Oliver Cromwell.

CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS, 7 Vols. WILHELM MEISTER, 3 Vols.

LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS.

LIFE OF JOHN STERLING.

HISTORY OF FREDERICK THE GREAT, 10 Vols.

TRANSLATIONS FROM

RICHTER, 2 Vols.

MUSÆUS, TIECK, AND

THE EARLY KINGS OF NORWAY; Essay on the Portraits of Knox.

25MAY 1953

RIBRARY

REPRINTED FROM STEREOTYPE PLATES,
NOVEMBER, 1888.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIIL

BOOK XVIII.

SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT. 1757-1759.

[Continued.]

CHAP.

XI. WINTER IN BRESLAU: THIRD CAMPAIGN OPENS

Of the English Subsidy, p. 9.

Friedrich, as indeed Pitt's People and Others have done,

takes the Field uncommonly early: Friedrich goes

upon Schweidnitz, as the Preface to whatever his

Campaign may be, 14.

Theseus and the Minotaur over again,-that is to say,

Friedrich at Handgrips with Fermor and his Russians

(25th August 1758), p. 46.

XIV. BATTLE OF HOCHKIRCH

Daun and the Reichs Army invade Saxony in Friedrich's

Absence, p. 59.

Friedrich intervening, Daun draws back; intrenches him-

self, in Neighbourhood to Dresden and Pirna; Fried-

rich 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

Hochkirch (September 12th-October 10th, 1758), 61.

What actually befell at Hochkirch (Saturday 14th Octo-

ber 1758), 69.

Sequel of Hochkirch; the Campaign ends in a Way sur-

prising to an attentive Public (22d October-20th No-

vember 1758), 81.

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Friedrich marches, enigmatically, not on Glogau, but on

Reichenbach and Görlitz; to Daun's Astonishment,

82.

Feldmarschall Daun and the Reichs Army try some Siege

of Dresden (9th-16th November), 84.

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BOOK XIX.

FRIEDRICH LIKE TO RE OVERWHELMED IN THE SEVEN-YEARS

WAR. 1759-1760.

J. PRELIMINARIES TO A FOURTH CAMPAIGN

Of the Small-War in Spring 1759. There are Five Dis

ruptions of that grand Cordon (February-April); and

Ferdinand of Brunswick fights his Battle of Bergen

(April 13th), p. 101.

.I. GENERAL DOHNA; DICTATOR WEDELL: BATTLE

OF ZULLICHAU.

Dictator Wedell fights his Battle (Monday 23d July 1759),

without Success, p. 123.

II. FRIEDRICH IN PERSON ATTEMPTS THE RUSSIAN

PROBLEM; Not with Success .

91

119

128

V. SAXONY WITHOUT DEFENCE: SCHMETTAU SUR-

Renders Dresden .

The "Reichs Army" so-called has entered Saxony, under

fine Omens; does some Feats of Sieging (August 7th-

23d), with an Eye on Dresden as the crowning one,

p. 177.

Austrian Reichs Army does its crowning Feat (August

26th-September 4th): Diary of what is called the

"Siege" of Dresden, 182.

VI. PRINCE HENRI MAKES A MARCH OF FIFTY HOURS;

THE RUSSIANS CANNOT Find LodginG IN SI-

LESIA

Daun, Soltikof and Company again have a Colloquy

(Bautzen, September 15th); after which Everybody

starts on his special Course of Action, p. 203.

Four Letters on Friedrich's (10th-24th September), 205.

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CHAP.

Friedrich manages (September 24th-October 24th) to get

the Russians sent home; and himself falls lamed with

Gout, 212.

VII. FRIEDRICH REAPPEARS ON THE FIELD, AND IN

SEVEN DAYS AFTER

STROPHE OF MAXEN

COMES THE CATA-

VIII. MISCELLanea in WintER-QUARTERS, 1759-60

Serene Highness of Würtemberg, at Fulda (November

30th, 1759), is just about "firing Victoria," and giving

a Ball to Beauty and Fashion, in Honour of a certain

Event;-but is unpleasantly interrupted, p. 238.

What is Perpetual President Maupertuis doing all this

While? Is he still in Berlin; or where in the Uni-

verse is he? Alas, poor Maupertuis! 241.

Grand French Invasion-Scheme comes entirely to Wreck

(Quiberon Bay, 20th November 1759): of Controller-

General Silhouette, and the Outlooks of France, finan-

cial and other, 243.

Friedrich, strange to say, publishes (March-June 1760) an

Edition of his Poems. Question, "Who wrote Ma-

tinées du Roi de Prusse?"—for the second, and posi-

tively the last Time, 248.

Peace-Negotiations hopeful to Friedrich all through Win-

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ter; but the French won't. Voltaire, and his Style of

Corresponding, 253.

Friedrich has sent Lord Marischal to Spain: other fond

Hopes of Friedrich's, 268.

IX. PRELIMINARIES TO A FIFTH CAMPAIGN

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