 Editor in Chief Bill   | 30 Jul 2018 12:12 p.m. PST |
It was the Rossbach/Leuthen campaign, of course. TMP link So said 28% of you. 2nd place: "made his army efficient"
3rd place: "enlightened ruler" |
| Glengarry5 | 30 Jul 2018 12:26 p.m. PST |
I suggest it was the army his father left him. |
Frederick  | 30 Jul 2018 12:46 p.m. PST |
I am holding out for blink stinking luck |
| 14Bore | 30 Jul 2018 1:05 p.m. PST |
He did refine tactics in his period and kept the government budget to standards to fund the wars, |
| Winston Smith | 30 Jul 2018 2:04 p.m. PST |
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| Piquet Rules | 30 Jul 2018 2:54 p.m. PST |
I'll second Winston's comment. |
| AICUSV | 30 Jul 2018 7:02 p.m. PST |
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| Rich Bliss | 30 Jul 2018 7:30 p.m. PST |
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| langobard | 31 Jul 2018 1:40 a.m. PST |
He simultaneously goes to war with France, Austria and Russia and survives? While I voted for the Rossbach/Leuthan campaign, I confess I'd have gone with "Survival" had it been an option. |
| JimDuncanUK | 31 Jul 2018 3:37 a.m. PST |
He had a good biographer. In period he was just called the 'King'. |
| langobard | 31 Jul 2018 6:06 a.m. PST |
@JimDuncanUK, actually, I thought Duffy said that he was known as "der Grosse" during his lifetime, which rather marks him out as special, rather than relying on biographers. Umm, unless Duffy is the biographer you mean? |
| 14Bore | 31 Jul 2018 12:19 p.m. PST |
On the book 20 of Thomas Carlyle's epic series, came off much as I expected with lots of qualities in a monarch you would want. |
| JimDuncanUK | 31 Jul 2018 2:30 p.m. PST |
The author I was thinking of was Horace St Paul. |
| langobard | 31 Jul 2018 10:06 p.m. PST |
@JimDuncanUK, thanks for that,I have his Lobositz to Leuthan, but it is still on my 'to read' pile. I'll look into next. |
| Fridericus | 01 Aug 2018 9:21 a.m. PST |
He was a gambler and his luck was that Russia gave up fighting. The rest is legend. |
| von Schwartz | 01 Aug 2018 6:02 p.m. PST |
Perhaps something other than snuff in his snuff? |
