King of Prussia (1712-86) FREDERICK II(1712-1786), king of Prussia, born on the 24th January 1712, was the son of Frederick William I., and is usually known as Frederick the Great. He was brought up with extreme rigour, his father devising a scheme of education which was intended to...
Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great took advantage of this diaspora to bring into Prussia and Russia former Jesuits who became leading educators there. The story is told briefly in Triumph — The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church by H.W. Crocker III, p. 336-34...
The prospect of Dutch defeat led Leopold to an alliance with Brandenburg-Prussia on 23 June, followed by another with the Republic on 25th.[43] Although Brandenburg was forced out of the war by the June 1673 Treaty of Vossem, in August an anti-French alliance was formed by the Dutch, ...