if Lehndorff assumes Fredersdorf retired out of his own volition and isn't informed of any dishonorable dismissal for financial irregularities, it can't have been common gossip.
Oh, yeah, I've been assuming he didn't know of any such thing, if it existed.
Whom exactly did Fritz ask to return the dogs?
The only one I know of is Nádasdy, Hungarian commander whose troops were doing the raiding. I gather he was at the top of their chain of command, though he may not have been on site and in command when the raiding happened (that may even have been Trenck, or Trenck may have been one of several commanders, I'm not sure).
If he was temporary dog-less when getting those mysterious anonymous letters framing Trenck as an Austrian spy
I did absolutely think of this. He was temporarily flute-less too--consider that. And those replacement flutes Fredersdorf sent from Quantz, Fritz immediately complained about the quality of. Not in a good mood. (I really want to know on what day Fritz got the dogs back. I had to pick one for my story, but I don't know. If he had to make repeated requests, it sounds like my guess of "about a week" might be roughly correct, even if one of my secondary sources said "the next day", which I was skeptical about, albeit without much evidence.)
Do you know how long after the battle Fritz got those anonymous letters?
Letters in general: I wonder whether the editor mentions those two packages Fredersdorf's widow sent back to Fritz upon his request, and where these come in? I.e. which time period has significant gaps, other than the one post retirement?
I will let you know if any of this jumps out at me. There's about 50 pages of introductory material, and I can't look at a book more than like 2 minutes a day before my back pain starts to act up, so yeah...I'll see at the least if I can find the major gap(s).
Re: Fredersdorf letters
Oh, yeah, I've been assuming he didn't know of any such thing, if it existed.
Whom exactly did Fritz ask to return the dogs?
The only one I know of is Nádasdy, Hungarian commander whose troops were doing the raiding. I gather he was at the top of their chain of command, though he may not have been on site and in command when the raiding happened (that may even have been Trenck, or Trenck may have been one of several commanders, I'm not sure).
If he was temporary dog-less when getting those mysterious anonymous letters framing Trenck as an Austrian spy
I did absolutely think of this. He was temporarily flute-less too--consider that. And those replacement flutes Fredersdorf sent from Quantz, Fritz immediately complained about the quality of. Not in a good mood. (I really want to know on what day Fritz got the dogs back. I had to pick one for my story, but I don't know. If he had to make repeated requests, it sounds like my guess of "about a week" might be roughly correct, even if one of my secondary sources said "the next day", which I was skeptical about, albeit without much evidence.)
Do you know how long after the battle Fritz got those anonymous letters?
Letters in general: I wonder whether the editor mentions those two packages Fredersdorf's widow sent back to Fritz upon his request, and where these come in? I.e. which time period has significant gaps, other than the one post retirement?
I will let you know if any of this jumps out at me. There's about 50 pages of introductory material, and I can't look at a book more than like 2 minutes a day before my back pain starts to act up, so yeah...I'll see at the least if I can find the major gap(s).