Yeah, I had almost mentioned Richard III and Dettingen, but was not clear on the exact details of Dettingen and to what extent George II vs. Cumberland was directly involved, so I deleted what I had written and replaced it with "not normal." Thank you for clearing that up. Did not know about the horse running away, haha. Even the horse knows this isn't normal! You don't see Louis XV expecting his horse to charge into the front lines! (I imagine the horse thinking.)
Meanwhile, Fritz: Flute at 3 am, paperwork at 4 am, charge into battle at noon, compose poetry at 6 pm, call it a day.
well, given Fritz had the army chaplain pick as his sermon good old St. Paul and his "No woman shall raise her voice in the community" as a subject...
I mean, if you're at war with someone and you're not doing propaganda, you're doing it wrong. ;) Fritz is just extra special with his "religion I don't believe in is cool as long as I can cherry-pick it for misogyny I do." Haha, I ran across this in my military history reading yesterday:
"In leading circles of society in the eighteenth century faith was at one of its lower ebbs, and religious observance in the armies was supported primarily as a means of promoting discipline and cohesion. On the day before the battle of Zorndorf (1758) Lieutentant-General Forcade received the evening orders from Frederick, and then repeated them in his characteristically loud voice:
During this litany the king chatted with Seydlitz, who was looking on with an amused and detached air. In due course Forcade came to the sentence 'Tomorrow, by the grace of God, we shall have a battle!' Frederick was apparently concerned that Seydlitz might think he had turned to God in his time of trial, and he muttered to him 'That's only for the baggage drivers!'"
I look forward to the meeting of the Catholic and the atheist/deist at the summit. ;) Btw, Wilhelmine? Low-key (compared to FW) Protestant or freethinker? (Got distracted from reading her memoirs more closely by Algarotti and military history, sorry not sorry.)
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Meanwhile, Fritz: Flute at 3 am, paperwork at 4 am, charge into battle at noon, compose poetry at 6 pm, call it a day.
well, given Fritz had the army chaplain pick as his sermon good old St. Paul and his "No woman shall raise her voice in the community" as a subject...
I mean, if you're at war with someone and you're not doing propaganda, you're doing it wrong. ;) Fritz is just extra special with his "religion I don't believe in is cool as long as I can cherry-pick it for misogyny I do." Haha, I ran across this in my military history reading yesterday:
"In leading circles of society in the eighteenth century faith was at one of its lower ebbs, and religious observance in the armies was supported primarily as a means of promoting discipline and cohesion. On the day before the battle of Zorndorf (1758) Lieutentant-General Forcade received the evening orders from Frederick, and then repeated them in his characteristically loud voice:
During this litany the king chatted with Seydlitz, who was looking on with an amused and detached air. In due course Forcade came to the sentence 'Tomorrow, by the grace of God, we shall have a battle!' Frederick was apparently concerned that Seydlitz might think he had turned to God in his time of trial, and he muttered to him 'That's only for the baggage drivers!'"
I look forward to the meeting of the Catholic and the atheist/deist at the summit. ;) Btw, Wilhelmine? Low-key (compared to FW) Protestant or freethinker? (Got distracted from reading her memoirs more closely by Algarotti and military history, sorry not sorry.)