Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 30

[cahn]

In which, despite the title, I would like to be told about the English Revolution, which is yet another casualty of my extremely poor history education :P :)

Also, this is probably the place to say that RMSE opened with three Fritz-fics, all of which I think are readable with minimum canon knowledge:

The Boy Who Lived - if you knew about the doomed escape-from-Prussia-that-didn't happen and tragic death of Fritz's boyfriend Hans Hermann von Katte, you may not have known about Peter Keith, the third young man who conspired to escape Prussia -- and the only one who actually did. This is his story. I think readable without canon knowledge except what I just said here.

Challenge Yourself to Relax - My gift, I posted about this before! Corporate AU with my problematic fave, Fritz' brother Heinrich, who's still Fritz's l'autre moi-meme even in corporate AU. Readable without canon knowledge if one has familiarity with the corporate world and the dysfunctions thereof.

The Rise and Fall of the RendezvousWithFame Exchange - Fandom AU with BNF fanfic writer Voltaire, exchange mod Fritz, and the inevitable meltdown. (I wrote this one and am quite proud of the terrible physics-adjacent pun contained within.) Readable without canon knowledge if one has familiarity with fandom and the dysfunctions thereof :P

Comments

Re: Goldstone Ch 5-6

[mildred_of_midgard]

Burgdorf, he of "Fritz was totally gay, nothing but gay, never touched a woman in his life and was platonic life long pen pals with Orzelska" insistence, calls Fredersdorf "the Prussian Pompadour", and doesn't Blanning reference him, Mildred? (Not having read Blanning myself, I don't know.)

Blanning does reference Burgdorf, if that's what you mean. He also talks about Fredersdorf at great length, including this line that I've always enjoyed: "Frederick's numerous letters to Fredersdorf are intimate in tone and substance--what one might expect from a doting husband."

Washington: I wouldn't now, you two are way better versed in the ways of US founding fathers.

You'd think, but if it wasn't covered in school, I don't know it, because I never studied the American Revolution outside of school. And I gather from you two not knowing it that it's not in Hamilton. ;)

Re: Goldstone Ch 5-6

[cahn]

Yeah, and at least when I was in school we covered the early New World explorers and the early colonies like Jamestown, and then I feel like we basically skipped straight to the Revolutionary War. I'd heard of the French and Indian War but I know zero about it.

Hamilton was too young to be involved in the French and Indian War :) (when this alleged incident occurred.)