Announcing Rheinsberg: Frederick the Great discussion post 10

[cahn]

So for anyone who is reading this and would like to learn more about Frederick the Great and his contemporaries, but who doesn't want to wade through 500k (600k?) words worth of comments and an increasingly sprawling comment section:

We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

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Re: Heinrich correspondence

[selenak]

You are awesome, royal librarian, and in the true rokoko spirit, I lay myself at your feet.

Finally, another random thing that cropped up in my reading: Seydlitz dies, and guess what? It's his fault for not listening to his doctors! According to the man who notoriously never listened to a doctor and always said he regretted it when he did. But only der einzige is allowed to know better than the doctors, I suppose.

Well, naturally! Seydlitz of course also made it on the obelisk. Writes Heinrich:

General von Seydlitz distinguished himself from his youth. He was present in all campaigns of the Seven Years' War, and always with honor and glory. Through dexterity, fearlessness, combined with speed and presence of mind, all his war deeds became pernicious to the enemy. Lowositz, Kollin, Roßbach, Hochkirch, Zorndorf, Kunersdorf and Freiberg are his monuments to victory. He was often dangerously wounded. The Prussian cavalry owes to him the degree of perfection which the stranger admires. This rare man, surviving all dangers, died in the arms of peace.