war-fervor

Updated: May 2, 2025

Maillebois with his 40,000, we have seen how they got to Osnabruck, and effectually stilled the war-fervor of little George II.; sent him home, in fact, to England a checkmated man, he riding out of Osnabruck by one gate, the French at the same moment marching in by the other.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13