He is defined by Thomas Carlyle as " a failure of a Fritz ," with " features " of a Frederick the Great in him, " but who burnt away his splendid qualities as a mere temporary shine for the able editors, and never came to anything, full of fire, too much of it wildfire, not in the least like an Alcibiades except in the change of fortune he underwent ".

* 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years ' War.

Frederick the Great ( 1712 – 1786 ) was one of Europe's enlightened monarch s.

Frederick William, known as the " Great Elector ", who had succeeded his father George William as ruler in 1640, initiated a policy of promoting immigration and religious tolerance.

In 1740, Frederick II, known as Frederick the Great ( 1740 – 1786 ), came to power.

During the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the city state was annexed by King Frederick the Great of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Returning from Saint Petersburg, they visited Frederick the Great in Rheinsberg.

After his death Frederick the Great, who several times needed Algarotti writing texts in Latin, sent in a text for a monument to his memory on the Campo Santo in Pisa, Italy.

* Correspondence with Frederick the Great at Digitale Ausgabe der Universitätsbibliothek Trier

* MacDonogh, G. ( 1999 ) Frederick the Great.

* Frederick Douglass appears as a Great Humanitarian in the 2008 strategy video game Civilization Revolution.

During World War II, in order to protect it from advancing allied forces, Hitler ordered the king ’ s coffin, as well as those of Frederick the Great and Paul von Hindenburg, into hiding, first to Berlin and later to a salt mine outside of Bernestrode.

Frederick William married his first cousin Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, George II's younger sister ( daughter of his uncle, King George I of Great Britain and Sophia Dorothea of Celle ) on 28 November 1706.

Alongside with Carlyle the Great Man theory was supported by American scholar Frederick Adams Woods.

He was the father of Frederick William, the " Great Elector ".

Their only son Frederick William later became known as the " Great Elector ".

From 1640, Brandenburg-Prussia had started to rise under the Great Elector, Frederick William.

Louis XIV ultimately had to relinquish the Electorate of the Palatinate. Frederick II of Prussia | Frederick II, the Great, of Prussia ( 1712 – 1786 ) Afterwards Hungary was reconquered from the Turks ; Austria, under the Habsburgs, developed into a great power.

But in the Silesian Wars and in the Seven Years ' War she had to cede Silesia to Frederick II, the Great, of Prussia.

In Hesse-Kassel, the Landgrave Frederick II, ruled 1760 – 1785 as an enlightened despot, and raised money by renting soldiers ( called " Hessians ") to Great Britain to help fight the American Revolutionary War.

* 1640 – 1688: Frederick I / III William the Great Elector ( son of, also Elector of Brandenburg )

* Matter, Evelyn P. The Great House Rapp House Constructed 1826 and Frederick Rapp House Constructed about 1828 at Old Economy.

* 1757 – Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years ' War.

One of them, Frederick Billings, thought of the lines of the Anglo-Irish Anglican Bishop George Berkeley, ' westward the course of empire takes its way ,' and suggested that the town and college site be named for the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish philosopher.

Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare thought any connection to be based on a misunderstanding of docetism.

However, the famous painter William Frederick Yeames, who at one time was its churchwarden, is thought to have done the wall paintings in the chancel.

" George III seriously thought of abdicating at this time, after the comprehensive defeat of his American policy and the imposition of Fox and North, but refrained from doing so, mainly because of the thought of his succession by his son, George Augustus Frederick: the notoriously extravagant womaniser, gambler and associate of Fox, who could swear in three languages.

His friend, Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, said of him that, since " the respect of the world was not easily retrievable, he became so callous to what was said of him, as never to repress a single thought, or even temper a single expression when he was before the public.

Nevertheless, they idealized tradition, folklore, classical thought, leadership ( as exemplified by Frederick the Great ), rejected the liberalism of the Weimar Republic, and called the German state the Third Reich ( which traces back to the medieval First Reich and the pre-Weimar Second Reich ).

Sophie, his queen, was popularly thought to support her brother as well, but it seems that she was actually pro-British ; like her father the late Kaiser Frederick, Sophie was heavily influenced by her mother, the British-born Victoria.

The play alludes to a German duke, who is generally thought to be Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg, who had visited England in 1592 and was elected to the Order of the Garter in 1597 ( and who was eventually only installed in Stuttgart on 6 November 1603 ).

He thought that the only way war could happen now was if Frederick the Great unilaterally attacked Austria which, given the clear disparity in numbers, he would be a " madman " to do.

The elector John Frederick, Elector of Saxony first thought of a plan to establish a university at Jena in 1547 while he was being held captive by emperor Charles V. The plan was put into motion by his three sons and, after having obtained a charter from the emperor Ferdinand I, the university was established on 2 February 1558.

Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, along with many other abolitionists both black and white, thought Garnet's ideas were too radical and could damage the cause by arousing too much fear and resistance among whites.

But, after his Test Match Special colleague Brian Johnston had nicknamed him " Sir Frederick ", there were those who thought he had really been knighted and many, particularly in his native county, who could not understand why he had not.

Chapman had previously been known to baseball historians under a different name ; he was originally thought to have been a player named Frederick Joseph " Fred " Chapman.

Frederick had omitted any thought of strategy when setting camp.

However what Frederick thought was the opposite of what was true.

At first Frederick thought the sounds of the battle were just an outpost skirmish, but was soon alerted when his own Prussian cannons started to fire on his camp.

John Frederick actually thought that peace had come and continued the ecclesiastical reforms in his country.

The lavishly illustrated Ellesmere manuscript, which for many years, following the examples of the editor Frederick Furnivall and W. W. Skeat, was used as the base text for more modern editions of the Canterbury Tales, is now thought to have been written by the same scribe, though the arrangement of the individual tales in the two manuscripts varies widely.

As his narrative unfolds, Frederick Douglass — abolitionist, journalist, orator, and one of the most powerful voices to emerge from the American civil rights movement — transforms himself from slave to fugitive to reformer, leaving behind a legacy of social, intellectual, and political thought.

After the Battle of Monte Porzio, in 1168, the Roman people thought it well to take revenge on Albano, who had sided with the city's Emperor Frederick Barbarossa against Rome, and so the town was looted and razed.

Freddie King ( September 3, 1934 – December 28, 1976 ), thought to have been born as Frederick Christian, originally recording as Freddy King, and nicknamed " The Texas Cannonball ", was an influential American blues guitarist and singer.

The mission of the Frederick Douglass Institute is to be a window to the world of knowledge, a catalyst for bridging systems of thought and expression, a light of hope and a place of encouragement for all who seek change.

It was entitled Jiji Manga, and was thought to have been influenced by the works of Frank Arthur Nankivell and Frederick Burr Opper.