The History of Prussia

John Abbott

• Publisher: Ozymandias Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781531265359
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Travel

About the year of our Lord 997, Adelbert, Bishop of Prague, with two companions, set out on a missionary tour to the shores of the Baltic. The savage inhabitants killed him. Still Christianity gradually gained ground. As the ages rolled on, idolatry disappeared, and nominal Christianity took its place. The people were poor, ignorant, widely dispersed, and but partially civilized. During weary centuries, as generations came and went, nothing in that region occurred of interest to the world at large. When, in the sixteenth century, Protestantism was rejected by Southern Europe, it was accepted by the inhabitants of this wild region. At the commencement of the eighteenth century, there was found upon the southern shores of the Baltic a small territory, about as large as the State of Massachusetts, called the Marquisate of Brandenburg. The marquis belonged to a very renowned family, known as the House of Hohenzollern. At the distance of some miles east of this marquisate, there was a small duchy called Prussia. The Marquis of Brandenburg, who had come into possession of the duchy, being a very ambitious man, by skilful diplomacy succeeded in having the united provinces of Prussia and Brandenburg recognized by the Emperor of Germany as the kingdom of Prussia. The sovereigns of Southern Europe looked quite contemptuously upon this newborn and petty realm, and were not at all disposed to receive the parvenu king into their society as an equal...

Table of contents

• Origin of the Monarchy
• Fritz, and the Commencement of His Reign
• The Seven-Years’ War
• The Partition of Poland, and the Invasion of France
• Prussia and the French Revolution
• Prussia Overwhelmed
• Frederick William III. and the New Coalition
• Struggles for Liberty
• King William I.
• The Chief Supporters of the Crown
• Schleswig and Holstein
• The Liberation of Italy
• The German War
• France Demands Her Ancient Boundary
• The Policy of Count Bismarck
• The Declaration of War
• The Eastern Question
• France Invaded
• Prussian Victories and French Defeats
• The Capture of Sedan
• The Overthrow of the Empire
• The Prisoner and the Exile
• War, and Its Woes
• The Germanic Empire
• The Siege of Paris
• The Political Embarrassments
• Peace
• The Commune