Frederick the Great is one of history's most famous and adept military commanders. He's not Napoleon, but pretty damn close. The 18th-century Prussian king is credited with transforming a ...

Beginning in the 18th century, Frederick William I, and then his son, Frederick II, began transforming their Prussian kingdom into a major military power. The ambitions and actions of one man ...

In other words, clear military defeat wrote the end of these stories for the ... burden the next as it became distracted by a new conflict. The comparison between 18th-century Prussia and 21st-century ...

“Magnificent Rebels,” by Andrea Wulf, paints a vivid portrait of the 18th-century German Romantics ... and venerated Napoleon as a genius while his army advanced through Europe.