United States or Brunei ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
And are as Friedrich looks abroad on the Austrian-Russian marchings of troops, campings, and unusual military symptoms and combinations visibly preparing to that end.
"Austrian-Russian Anti-Prussian Covenant!" say Bruhl and Majesty, rather comfortably to themselves: "We never signed it. WE never would sign anything; what have we to do with it? Courage; steady; To Pirna, if they come! Are not Excellency Broglio, and France, and Austria, and the whole world at our back?" It was full three weeks before Klinggraf's Message of Answer could arrive at Berlin.
So soon as Winterfeld convinced himself that there was weight in the affair, he imparted it to Friedrich: 'Scheme of partitioning, your Majesty, of picking quarrel, then overwhelming and partitioning; most serious scheme, Austrian-Russian as well as Saxon; going on steadily for years past, and very lively at this time! If true, Friedrich cannot but admit that this is serious enough: important, thrice over, to discover whether it is true; and gives Winterfeld authority to prosecute it to the bottom, in Dresden or wherever the secret may lie.
The Montazets, Montalemberts, watching, messaging about, in the Austrian-Russian Courts and Camps, assiduously keeping their Soltikofs in tune, we can observe how busy they are. Soubise with his Invasion of England, all the French are very busy; they have conquered Hessen from Duke Ferdinand, and promise themselves a glorious Campaign, after that Seizure of Frankfurt.
That there will be an English-French War straightway; and that, as usual, the French, weaker at sea, will probably attack Hanover; that is to say, bring the War home to one's own door, and ripen into fulfilment those Austrian-Russian Plots. This is the evident circumstance, fast coming on; visible to Friedrich and to everybody.
Word Of The Day