million-and-half

Updated: June 7, 2025

For instance, one thing he had at once ordered: "Your Bill of a Million-and-half to the Russians, don't pay it, or any part of it! When Bamberg was ransomed, Spring gone a year, Reich and Kaiser, did they respect our Bill we had on Bamberg? Did not they cancel it, and flatly refuse?" Friedrich is positive on the point, "Reprisal our clear remedy!"

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20

But he had at length convinced his Majesty that Merchants' Bills were a sacred thing, in spite of Bamberg and desecrative individualities; and that this Million-and-half must be paid. Friedrich was struck with Gotzkowsky and his view of the facts. It had been a costly business to Berlin, and to the King, and to the poor harried Country.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20