Prussia'S Glory
Prussia'S Glory Rossbach and Leuthen are included in the Great Battles of History. Prussian military prowess became legendary. Frederick made himself one of the Great Captains by these victories. So…
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Prussia'S Glory
Rossbach and Leuthen are included in the Great Battles of History. Prussian military prowess became legendary. Frederick made himself one of the Great Captains by these victories.
So how were they so humiliated? The Franco-German army swept away at Rossbach, and the Austrian army routed at Leuthen, were not only larger and had a fair share of professional soldiers, but the Austrians had beaten the Prussians not long before. What made Frederick Great?
For more than a century people believed it was because the Prussians were just naturally suited for war. Until 1945 many Germans, and their foes, remembered how Frederick miraculously saved Prussia against overwhelming odds, by marching through the snow towards Leuthen church. As always, it was not so simple.
The expert on 18th-century armies, Christopher Duffy, shows why French, Austrian and Reichsarmee soldiers, though often enough