18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 37

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More diaries of our favorite 18th-century Prussian diary-keeper have been unearthed and have been synopsized!

January 18th: Blessed be thou to me! Under your light, my Prince Heinrich was born!

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Re: Peter Hagendorf: Diary of a Mercenary from the 30-Years-War - II

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We were even able to sell some, for we made ourselves a mill out of two grindstones and dug into the earth to make an oven and baked bread.

Heh, that's kinda neat.

On April 9th, my wife was delivered of a young daughter...
The wife with the child and the horse remained at Paring. After fourteen days, I went there again, and got them. She still could not walk, so I sat her on the horse and led her. I travelled like Joseph in Egypt. I had left her on April 16th, and picked her up again on April 30th...
On May 19th in the year 1641
my daughter died at Ingolstadt. .

ARGH. You could not pay me enough to live in the past, especially as a woman!! part seventeen million. (Yeah, and when I had my first kid I also could barely walk after a couple of weeks, and that was without getting sick!) But also, all those dead babies :(

but later research which was able to identiy the diariest as Hagendorf was also able to tell he became a mayor in the place he finally settled down.

I'm glad he made it through! But wow.