Just look at avid teacup collector Ingersleben (honestly, why does this guy have 42 teacups, I have FOUR), FW did know mercy!
Wait, what about the teacups? Tell me more!
I think Ziebura mentions the minimum height for soldiers at some point, saying that regulations said you needed to have men of 165 cm or taller, "but those were hard to find, so they opted for shorter people too". That was for low ranking soldiers and not officers though, maybe they were more strict there.
Well, the context in Ziebura is Heinrich and/or Heinrich's officers being lax about this, to where Fritz noticed during an inspection and used it as a stick to beat Heinrich with. So, we know it happened, but we also know that you were taking a risk if you did. (Probably during the latter stages of the Seven Years' War, much less of a risk.)
But for the Gens d'armes regiment, hanging out in Berlin/Potsdam and personally inspected by FW, since this is his personal bodyguard regiment, and we know how he felt about heights :P, I'm going to go with "everyone is of at least minimum height."
One point about Fritz's height that I didn't consider: I keep seeing in secondary sources that EC was taller than he was. Horowski says, "You didn't have to be very tall for an 18th century woman to be taller than 162 cm (iirc)," but if I'm correct that that was Fritz later in life, then if she really was taller than he was when they got married, she had to have been fairly tall.
I did consider giving them a more realistic height difference (cause it ended up being... a lot) but then again, my joke wouldn't have worked out without drawing more difficult angles :'D
Oh, no, we're definitely glad you went with the silly approach for this! It was perfect.
Speaking of your art, when I was chatting with Royal Patron yesterday, telling him crazy stories like the setting trees on fire one, and he said, "You know, if they had a show about these people, it would be way more interesting than the Kardashians," and I said, "Let me tell you about this comic series called Keeping Up With the Hohenzollerns." :'-D
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Re: Silly comic from yours truly
Date: 2020-11-02 03:01 pm (UTC)Wait, what about the teacups? Tell me more!
I think Ziebura mentions the minimum height for soldiers at some point, saying that regulations said you needed to have men of 165 cm or taller, "but those were hard to find, so they opted for shorter people too". That was for low ranking soldiers and not officers though, maybe they were more strict there.
Well, the context in Ziebura is Heinrich and/or Heinrich's officers being lax about this, to where Fritz noticed during an inspection and used it as a stick to beat Heinrich with. So, we know it happened, but we also know that you were taking a risk if you did. (Probably during the latter stages of the Seven Years' War, much less of a risk.)
But for the Gens d'armes regiment, hanging out in Berlin/Potsdam and personally inspected by FW, since this is his personal bodyguard regiment, and we know how he felt about heights :P, I'm going to go with "everyone is of at least minimum height."
One point about Fritz's height that I didn't consider: I keep seeing in secondary sources that EC was taller than he was. Horowski says, "You didn't have to be very tall for an 18th century woman to be taller than 162 cm (iirc)," but if I'm correct that that was Fritz later in life, then if she really was taller than he was when they got married, she had to have been fairly tall.
I did consider giving them a more realistic height difference (cause it ended up being... a lot) but then again, my joke wouldn't have worked out without drawing more difficult angles :'D
Oh, no, we're definitely glad you went with the silly approach for this! It was perfect.
Speaking of your art, when I was chatting with Royal Patron yesterday, telling him crazy stories like the setting trees on fire one, and he said, "You know, if they had a show about these people, it would be way more interesting than the Kardashians," and I said, "Let me tell you about this comic series called Keeping Up With the Hohenzollerns." :'-D