18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 35

[cahn]

In the previous post Charles II found AITA:

Look, I, m, believe in live and let live. (And in not going on my travels again. Had enough of that to last a life time.) Why can't everyone else around me be more chill? Instead, my wife refuses to employ my girlfriend, my girlfriend won't budge and accept another office, my brother is set on a course to piss off everyone (he WILL go on his travels again), and my oldest kid shows signs of wanting my job which is just not on, sorry to say. And don't get me started about Mom (thank God she's living abroad). What am I doing wrong? AITA?

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Re: The guy who was too tall for FW

[mildred_of_midgard]

That link takes me to a login page, but this one works for me. Good find, thank you! I'm glad you're picking up my detective slack while all my free time gets sucked up by studying German. :)

whom he refers to as Swedish exclusively, but okay, a Brit of his era would not necessarily distinguish

Reminder to cahn that Finland was not a sovereign nation at this point, as the font and coloring of this map shows.

since the King of Sweden seeks brave soldiers to get Finnland back from the Russians (!)

Ah, right, yes, 1742 is when Sweden and Russia are fighting over Finland! This is when James Keith, occupier of Finland on behalf of Elizaveta, is there meeting his future life partner Eva Merthen, and there's briefly an attempt to make future Peter III king of an independent Finland. Independent Finland didn't end up working out, though, so that idea died on the vine. (More details here.) Given the chronology, it doesn't surprise me this book is politically charged!

So that still leaves us with the mystery as to where the story of him in Prussia comes from, and also him in Saxony, especially since German wiki claims the later one is testified to.

Indeed! Given the summary I read of this book, I'm not surprised those details aren't in here. Thank you for reading and summarizing so we could know for sure.