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They came from all directions. Some crawling, others limping on muskets.. Further there were the remains of blown-up ammunition waggons & powder carts. A multitude of half roasted gunners who were giving off an unpleasant smell of burning.. Around the whole battlefield ran wounded horses, with their intestines dragging along the ground or hopping about on three legs. (Prittwitz 2 days after Zorndorf, 27 August 1758)

"three things are necessary for making war: money, money and yet more money."
Frederik's most remarkable achievement as a wager of war was not so much surviving the struggle against most of Europe, with its immensely superior resources, as in emerging from the ordeal with a financial profit.

In the make-up of its rank and file the Prussian army of Frederik's time is best described as a curious amalgam of Territorial Army and Foreign Legion. One element consisted of part-time native troops. Foreign mercenaries made up the other.

"a commander could find a multitude of reasons and opportunities for evading battle. The army was an indivisible block of dozens of regiments, it could be moved over the theater of war only with excruciating difficulty, which afforded a timid enemy plenty of time to make good his escape. In the 18th century a consummated battle therefore represented a SEDUCTION rather than a rape.

An in-depth look at Europe's best army in the mid-eighteenth century.

Wehell, Kolin was kind of a debacle. Guess every great army has to get spanked once in a while.

That was all prelude?!? Now that the setting is very well established, we get into the battles. Cool stuff!

This is good history!

Insightful historical work capturing all the details of the 18th-Century Prussian army.