cahn | Frederick the Great and Other 18th-C Characters, Discussion Post 31

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And in this post:

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luzula is going to tell us about the Jacobites and the '45!

-I'm going to finish reading Nancy Goldstone's book about Maria Theresia and (some of) her children Maria Christina, Maria Carolina, and Marie Antoinette, In the Shadow of the Empress, and

selenak is going to tell us all the things wrong with the last four chapters (spoiler: in the first twenty chapters there have been many, MANY things wrong)!

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mildred_of_midgard is going to tell us about Charles XII of Sweden and the Great Northern War

(seriously, how did I get so lucky to have all these people Telling Me Things, this is AWESOME)

-oh, and also there will be Yuletide signups :D

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mildred_of_midgard

cahn, I'm so glad we have you to keep the discussion going when I'm dropping the ball.

In related news, I have finished the reading that I need to do in order to present on the Great Northern War. There are more things I want to read, but they're all more advanced, so they're not required for this part, and they're pdfs, so I'm waiting on my tablet so I can have a better pdf-reading setup.

Since it is A LOT to remember, I think what I'll do next is skim the most useful things I read and take notes, then start putting together write-ups. They probably won't be as elaborate as the Spanish Succession write-ups, due to time pressure, but keep asking questions and commenting and I'll do the best I can. :)

In other news, I made good progress in the last couple weeks on getting at least the facts and citations related to Fredersdorf, Pfeiffer, and Kiekemal down, so that I have them in one place in case I ever get around to turning that into an article. I want to do a little more, and then you may hear from me,

selenak, with specific questions about the Wegfraß volume.

And I'd like to stop procrastinating on doing the same for Peter Keith!

From:

cahn

Heh, here I am being glad that you guys keep the discussion going when I drop the ball! :) (And now that Yuletide assignments are out I'm probably going to become at least a little more scarce, because unlike some of you I am a quite slow writer and need a lot of time for a small word output :P :) )

But I'm excited for the Great Northern War, whenever you're ready! (And as long as you don't mind the comments from me coming slowly :) )

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mildred_of_midgard

Lol, as long as you don't mind the comments from *me* coming slowly. I think what I might do is a v. v. high-level overview, then a bunch of little comments on specific subjects, spread out, so I don't get overwhelmed. And I might rely on you guys to ask follow-up questions that I can elaborate on, instead of me trying to present all the information up front. There is SO MUCH. (Everybody keeps switching sides, and C12 keeps moving around, that's why! The Spanish Succession was way more stable, and Marlborough and Eugene generally stayed in the same place. Also, the GNW didn't influence the Spanish Succession nearly as much as the reverse, so you kind of have to cover two wars at once.)

Also, I probably won't do the C12 personality write-up until 1) my physical copy arrives, 2) I have digitized it. The archive.org interface is just too annoying for write-ups, though it's okay for reading. The war I can get started on soon-ish, though, hopefully by this weekend!

From:

cahn

Heh, that's totally fine! You can see it's taking me sooooo loooong to respond to things right now, what with Yuletide and planning Christmas music as every year, so... I will respond to things! It just might take me even longer than usual!