Well, dang. You know, the next discovery could be the scriptwriters also didn‘t invent MT and FS catching Mimi and poor Isabella of Parma in the act or Grumbkow & Seckendorff assassinating Prince Eugene once they considered him no longer useful for Prussia…
The "extortionate prices" makes more sense of it: if the Austrians had access to enough food, and FS could make a huge profit, the Austrians could use that profit to supply and pay their own soldiers. And the reason Fritz could afford extortionate prices was because he was exploiting Saxony and debasing the Saxon-Polish currency!
Verily, and the Saxons truly have a claim of having it the worst in that war, at least in the European arena. But I take it FS didn‘t supply the Prussians until the later part of the war, given that part of our newly discovered correspondence from 1757 between various folk and Fredersdorf is about flour and other horse supply from Northern Germany?
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Re: Money-making schemes
Date: 2023-06-18 09:05 am (UTC)The "extortionate prices" makes more sense of it: if the Austrians had access to enough food, and FS could make a huge profit, the Austrians could use that profit to supply and pay their own soldiers. And the reason Fritz could afford extortionate prices was because he was exploiting Saxony and debasing the Saxon-Polish currency!
Verily, and the Saxons truly have a claim of having it the worst in that war, at least in the European arena. But I take it FS didn‘t supply the Prussians until the later part of the war, given that part of our newly discovered correspondence from 1757 between various folk and Fredersdorf is about flour and other horse supply from Northern Germany?