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

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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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From:

cahn

That's... okay, that's something else. I'm with you, Cajanus! I would have tried to escape rather than get Finland back from the Russians too!

But also "The Giant Puff" is a hilarious title :P

From:

selenak

Depending on whether Thomas Boreman really got any of this from Cajanus himself (who was still alive at the time of publication, and the book's narrator certainly claims he got from the horse's mouth), of course, and given that German wiki is sure that whether or not Cajanus had a stint in Prussia, he did live in Saxony as part of the Saxon cavalry before going to England, of course the question becomes: was it the life of a soldier as such or having to fight the Russians for the Swedes he did not want to do? I mean, I could see someone who doesn't want to fight join FW's Potsdam Giants because by the 1730s, certainly all of Europe knew FW loved them too much to actually use them in battle. But that's not true for August the Strong's troops. Anyway, I can see why Boreman left the entire German interlude out since it would ruin the moral of his story.