FW: That's my intention, but I don't always do it. Let me tell you about that time my advisors wanted me to abandon Peter I. during the Great Northern War. I'd made Peter "a holy promise to never abandon him or make peace with Sweden without him and yet this promise did not keep me from signing a peace treaty without his involvement in the end. What that right? I don't think so, but it still happened. I didn't want to do it for a long time, I even got a hot fever over it, but what could I do, my guys plagued me for so long, Knyphausen even followed me to Wusterhausen and wouldn't leave me alone, so I had to sign it, like it or not. That was a real fraud.
Somewhere in one of the books I was reading, I seem to recall an FW rant about how his successor should *not* imitate him in this, and I really wanted to share it, but I couldn't find it, and I wanted to post the write-up already. If I run across it again, I'll share it!
... by the way, my guess is that at least half of FW's regret is that he ended up on the same side as the Hanover cousins, even though he liked Peter a lot more. :P
Hee! Can someone remind me how he felt about father-in-law G1? He definitely liked Peter more, but was there an outright animosity toward G1? (Future G2, obviously, that dates back to childhood!) I feel like he's supposed to have said he was sad when G1 died, but also that's basically socially obligatory and means nothing.
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Re: Great Northern War: The Confusingest Part
Date: 2021-11-20 02:27 pm (UTC)Somewhere in one of the books I was reading, I seem to recall an FW rant about how his successor should *not* imitate him in this, and I really wanted to share it, but I couldn't find it, and I wanted to post the write-up already. If I run across it again, I'll share it!
... by the way, my guess is that at least half of FW's regret is that he ended up on the same side as the Hanover cousins, even though he liked Peter a lot more. :P
Hee! Can someone remind me how he felt about father-in-law G1? He definitely liked Peter more, but was there an outright animosity toward G1? (Future G2, obviously, that dates back to childhood!) I feel like he's supposed to have said he was sad when G1 died, but also that's basically socially obligatory and means nothing.