[Footnote 2]: The strength of the militia under Frederic I. was, according to Fassmann, i. p. 720, up to 60,000.
[Footnote 3]: The system of allotting to each regiment its recruiting district.
[Footnote 4]: Fassmann, "Life of Frederic William I.;" and Von Loen, "The Soldier Depicted."
[Footnote 5]: V. Loen, "Der Soldat," p. 312.
[Footnote 6]: G. V. Griesheim, "Die Taktik," p. 75; v. Liebenrothe, "Fragmente," p. 29.
[Footnote 7]: Small smoking society, consisting of the King and his intimates.—Tr.
[Footnote 8]: It was not the bad combination of colours, the blue and yellow velvet housings, that incensed the dying king—those were the colours of his body-guard—but he wished to see those of the Dessauer on him—blue, red, and white.
[Footnote 9]: Lafontaine's "Life of Gruber," p. 126.
[Footnote 10]: "The Poor Man in Tockenburg," published by Fussli. Zurich: 1789 and 1792. Afterwards by G. Bülow, Leipzig, 1852.
[Footnote 11]: Elector Frederic William inherited 1451 square miles, with, perhaps, 700,000 inhabitants, most of it in Ordensland,[A] Prussia, which was less devastated by the war.