Frederick the Great discussion post 11

[cahn]

In our last installment, our heroes found that Henri de Catt's memoirs, a major source for current biographers of Frederick the Great, are not to be trusted!!

rheinsberg

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Re: Fritz as a writer: an early Victorian take

[mildred_of_midgard]

I can say he does mean that small troop of hussars of which he wrote "my hussars are only four miles from Vienna!"

*cough* I thought he might be up to a little self-aggrandizement. Thank you for confirming.

Fritz, it's nice that you managed to get a small body of troops that close, I'm sure it's great for propaganda, but they were never actually a threat according to any of my reading. You're not exactly "the Turks before Vienna."