Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 28

[cahn]

That is a lot of posts! :D <3

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Re: Tiny bit of Rottembourg

[mildred_of_midgard]

And Fredersdorf becomes a Prussian citizen. Otherwise, he and Fritz would never have met,

Probably would never have met. Let's remember the amount of conflict FW had with his neighbors over his recruiting practices re tall soldiers. ;)

But yes, was totally thinking of 12-yo Fredersdorf becoming Prussian on that fateful day!

Was Withworth financially sound, or could his sympathy for Rottembourg have come with some financial encouragement?

He was definitely always the opposite of financially sound, so we can't rule this out, but I'll try to do a write-up this weekend on why I don't think that's what we're seeing here.