Table of Contents
Book XII. First Silesian War, Awakening a General European One, Begins, 1740–1741: 1. Of Schlesien, or Silesia; 2. Friedrich marches on Glogau; 3. Problem of Glogau; 4. Breslau under soft pressure; 5. Friedrich pushes forward towards Brieg and Neisse; 6. Neisse is Bombarded; 7. At Versailles, the Most Christian Majesty changes his shirt, and Belleisle is seen with papers; 8. Phenomena in Petersburg; 9. Friedrich returns to Silesia; 10. Battle of Mollwitz; 11. The bursting-forth of bedlams: Belleisle and the breakers of Pragmatic Sanction; 12. Sorrows of His Britannic Majesty; 13. Small-war: first emergence of Ziethen the Hussar General into notice; Book XIII. First Silesian War, Leaving the General European One Ablaze All Round, Gets Ended, 1741–1742: 1. Britannic Majesty as paladin of the Pragmatic; 2. Camp of Strehlen; 3. Grand review at Strehlen: Neipperg takes aim at Breslau, but another hits it; 4. Friedrich takes the field again, intent on having Neisse; 5. Klein-Schnellendorf: Friedrich gets Neisse, in a fashion; 6. New mayor of Landshut makes an installation speech; 7. Friedrich purposes to mend the Klein-Schnellendorf failure: fortunes of the Belleisle armament; 8. Friedrich starts for Moravia on a new scheme he has; 9. Wilhelmina goes to see the gaieties at Frankfurt; 10. Friedrich does his Moravian expedition, which proves a mere Moravian foray; 11. Nussler in Neisse, with the old Dessauer and Walrave; 12. Prince Karl does come on; 13. Battle of Chotusitz; 14. Peace of Breslau; Book XIV. The Surrounding European War Does Not End, 1742–1744: 1. Friedrich resumes his peaceable pursuits; 2. Austrian affairs are on the mounting hand; 3. Carnival phenomena in war-times; 4. Austrian affairs mount to a dangerous height; 5. Britannic Majesty fights his Battle of Dettingen; and becomes supreme Jove of Germany, in a manner; 6. Voltaire visits Friedrich for the fourth time; 7. Friedrich makes treaty with France; and silently gets ready; 8. Perfect peace at Berlin, war all round.