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We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

Comments

Re: MacDonogh Reread IV

[mildred_of_midgard]

Frederick began to boast in April 1769 that anyone wanting to set eyes on one of the breed

Whoops, this should have been a separate quote, with a preface explaining that it's talking about the Papal suppression of the Jesuits, and Fritz's decision to offer them asylum as Catholic monarchs kicked them out.

Re: MacDonogh Reread IV

[selenak]

I figured. ;)

Re: MacDonogh Reread IV

[mildred_of_midgard]

I figured you figured! I didn't figure cahn figured. :)

Re: MacDonogh Reread IV

[cahn]

I did not, thank you :)