Frederick the Great has become a common name but this was only the beginning, as a great monarch cannot know peace for long.

Frederick II, later “the Great,” managed to combine his military ... Frederick threw himself back into military pursuits. The Seven Years’ War (1756-1763) was triggered by the alliance ...

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He spent his early years with his grandparents and with an aunt, seeing his mother only four or five times before her death when he was seven ... into the Civil War. Frederick Douglass would ...

Driven by antagonism between the great world powers of the 18th century over colonial interests, The Seven Years War raged from Europe to North America and across the world’s oceans. But in ...