OMG. I was not expecting the multiple near death experiences! That definitely adds a certain flavor to the account.
the wise King of Prussia respects law, especially international law, right? (Yes, I really say this in my memoirs.)
*blink*
Well, it is before 1753, I guess...but well after 1740! (1747)
The self-justifying MT asides were great.
I was planning to bind explosives on the tails of those cats and release them in the direction of the town I was besieging, but wouldn't you know it, those guys surrendered, and I couldn't try out my new tactic.
Every time I try to pick up my jaw off the floor, it drops again.
"Look, it's all Fritz' fault that you don't get to visit Paris! Let's avenge ourselves on him, yeah?"
A+ motivational speech!
Where we got our hands on his war chest, his secret war documents, his clothing, his brother AW's and his brother Heinrich's clothing and on his main paperpusher Eichel. Just imagine, if that had happened earlier! As it is, I'm just having fun imagining the three royal brothers stuck with no wardrobe to change into.
OMG. Assuming this is accurate (I'm scarred by Prussian Trenck not even having *been* at Soor, but this seems plausible considering we know the camp/baggage train was sacked), that's awesome! Puts a new light on Fritz's "if you were here, none of this would have happened" to Fredersdorf! "If you were here, I would have clothes, dammit."
Fredersdorf: *huge smile* Fredersdorf: ... Fredersdorf: Sorry! I got distracted imagining you without clothes. Now where were we?
Along with war atrocities. And mistreating some of the people serving under me. Now, no one reading my memoirs so far can surely believe any of this is true, amirite?
No, never!
*cough* Slytherin
because you rock, your cause is just, and if you let me, I'll have another go at Fritz any time you like! Yours truly, Franz von der Trenck. The rest of you: you can't handle the truth!
I knew we wanted to read this, but I didn't know we wanted to read it THIS MUCH.
I wasn't expecting Austrian Trenck to do Rasputin one better, either! BTW, it just so happens that his body got mumified, so current historians could check, and he did have, among other things, a broken and perfectly reset leg, for example, as well as various other injuries.
A+ motivational speech!
His Pandurs thought so, according to him. :)
OMG. Assuming this is accurate (I'm scarred by Prussian Trenck not even having *been* at Soor, but this seems plausible considering we know the camp/baggage train was sacked), that's awesome!
Well, Austrian Trenck definitely was in charge of the raiding (which we know due to the accusation at his first trial that Fritz must have bribed him, as well as the blame for being co-responsible that he and Nadasty didn't as ordered circumvent the Prussians and attack them from behind, as opposed to plundering their camp), we know Fritz writes that "the entire bagggage" was stolen, we know Heinrich and AW were both at Soor with him, so I'd say it's really likely that Austrian Trenck is telling the truth about having made the three brothers cloth- and laundryless. (Though I bet some officers the right size were ordered to help out until he got his stuff back. Still, it makes for a valuable addition to Fritz' having just a really bad week, despite his victory.)
(Heinrich: and what kind of week do you think we were having as a consequence?) (AW: Guys, guys, there are a lot of ponds and rivers here. Why don't we use the opportunity and practice swimming a lot?)
I'd say it's really likely that Austrian Trenck is telling the truth about having made the three brothers cloth- and laundryless.
Yup.
Still, it makes for a valuable addition to Fritz' having just a really bad week, despite his victory.
Agreed! More than makes up for his batman not having been accused of spying that week. I don't remember if I mentioned this before, but that migraine Fritz has in "Care and Feeding of Italian Greyhounds" a couple days after the battle was based on something that I found at least in a biography, even if not in a primary source. And whatever biographer it was wrote, "Probably stress," and I agreed.
(Heinrich: and what kind of week do you think we were having as a consequence?) (AW: Guys, guys, there are a lot of ponds and rivers here. Why don't we use the opportunity and practice swimming a lot?)
Lol forever.
EC and Louise: also having a really bad week, possibly a worse one *after* AW got Fritz to write the uncondolence letter.
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Re: Austrian Trenck
the wise King of Prussia respects law, especially international law, right? (Yes, I really say this in my memoirs.)
*blink*
Well, it is before 1753, I guess...but well after 1740! (1747)
The self-justifying MT asides were great.
I was planning to bind explosives on the tails of those cats and release them in the direction of the town I was besieging, but wouldn't you know it, those guys surrendered, and I couldn't try out my new tactic.
Every time I try to pick up my jaw off the floor, it drops again.
"Look, it's all Fritz' fault that you don't get to visit Paris! Let's avenge ourselves on him, yeah?"
A+ motivational speech!
Where we got our hands on his war chest, his secret war documents, his clothing, his brother AW's and his brother Heinrich's clothing and on his main paperpusher Eichel. Just imagine, if that had happened earlier! As it is, I'm just having fun imagining the three royal brothers stuck with no wardrobe to change into.
OMG. Assuming this is accurate (I'm scarred by Prussian Trenck not even having *been* at Soor, but this seems plausible considering we know the camp/baggage train was sacked), that's awesome! Puts a new light on Fritz's "if you were here, none of this would have happened" to Fredersdorf! "If you were here, I would have clothes, dammit."
Fredersdorf: *huge smile*
Fredersdorf: ...
Fredersdorf: Sorry! I got distracted imagining you without clothes. Now where were we?
Along with war atrocities. And mistreating some of the people serving under me. Now, no one reading my memoirs so far can surely believe any of this is true, amirite?
No, never!
*cough* Slytherin
because you rock, your cause is just, and if you let me, I'll have another go at Fritz any time you like! Yours truly, Franz von der Trenck. The rest of you: you can't handle the truth!
I knew we wanted to read this, but I didn't know we wanted to read it THIS MUCH.
Re: Austrian Trenck
A+ motivational speech!
His Pandurs thought so, according to him. :)
OMG. Assuming this is accurate (I'm scarred by Prussian Trenck not even having *been* at Soor, but this seems plausible considering we know the camp/baggage train was sacked), that's awesome!
Well, Austrian Trenck definitely was in charge of the raiding (which we know due to the accusation at his first trial that Fritz must have bribed him, as well as the blame for being co-responsible that he and Nadasty didn't as ordered circumvent the Prussians and attack them from behind, as opposed to plundering their camp), we know Fritz writes that "the entire bagggage" was stolen, we know Heinrich and AW were both at Soor with him, so I'd say it's really likely that Austrian Trenck is telling the truth about having made the three brothers cloth- and laundryless. (Though I bet some officers the right size were ordered to help out until he got his stuff back. Still, it makes for a valuable addition to Fritz' having just a really bad week, despite his victory.)
(Heinrich: and what kind of week do you think we were having as a consequence?)
(AW: Guys, guys, there are a lot of ponds and rivers here. Why don't we use the opportunity and practice swimming a lot?)
<3 Fredersdorf!
Re: Austrian Trenck
Yup.
Still, it makes for a valuable addition to Fritz' having just a really bad week, despite his victory.
Agreed! More than makes up for his batman not having been accused of spying that week. I don't remember if I mentioned this before, but that migraine Fritz has in "Care and Feeding of Italian Greyhounds" a couple days after the battle was based on something that I found at least in a biography, even if not in a primary source. And whatever biographer it was wrote, "Probably stress," and I agreed.
(Heinrich: and what kind of week do you think we were having as a consequence?)
(AW: Guys, guys, there are a lot of ponds and rivers here. Why don't we use the opportunity and practice swimming a lot?)
Lol forever.
EC and Louise: also having a really bad week, possibly a worse one *after* AW got Fritz to write the uncondolence letter.