HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II OF PRUSSIA, Volume 17
FREDERICK THE GREAT
by Thomas Carlyle
Contents
[ Book XVII—THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR: FIRST CAMPAIGN.—1756-1757. ]
[ Chapter I.—WHAT FRIEDRICH HAD READ IN THE MENZEL DOCUMENTS. ]
[ HOW FRIEDRICH DISCOVERED THE MYSTERY. CONCERNING MENZEL AND WEINGARTEN. ]
[ THE TRIUMPHANT HANBURY TREATY BECOMES, ITSELF, NOTHING OR LESS;—BUT PRODUCES A FRIEDRICH TREATY, FOLLOWED BY RESULTS WHICH SURPRISE EVERYBODY. ]
[ THERE HAS BEEN A COUNTER-TREATY GOING ON AT VERSAILLES IN THE INTERIM; WHICH HEREUPON STARTS OUT, AND TUMBLES THE WHOLLY ASTONISHED EUROPEAN DIPLOMACIES HEELS-OVER-HEAD. ]