reich's-feldmasschall

Updated: May 3, 2025

Old Eberhard had been at Blenheim, and had marched up and down: I never heard he was much of a General; perhaps good enough for the Reich, whose troops were always bad. But now that poor Duke, as we intimated once or more, is dead; there must be, of Protestant type, a new Reich's-Feldmasschall had.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09