Napoleon versus Frederick the Great I have chosen to compare Napoleon to Frederick the Great. I will compare these two extremely influential leaders through numerous techniques; including their military history, the administration of their territories, the legacy they left upon their countries, among others. Napoleon was a great soldier that graduated from military school at the age of sixteen and quickly worked his way through the ranks. Napoleon was a brilliant leader in battle and consistently
Prussia had some hard and not so hard times in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. They had various leaders as well as military and economic advances. Problems that could have been sorted out. So even if Prussia had a few bumps along the way they still made it throughout the centuries. There were some key events as well as some cultural audiences during the seventeenth century. These would include the very First Diet of all the Brandenburg lands and Frederick Williams being promoted from Elector
Frederick II, the Great, overcame the resource limitations within Prussia by mastering three aspects of the western way of war: the ability to finance war, possessing a highly disciplined military, and an aggressive mindset toward achieving quick decisive victory, which established Prussia as a major European power. Frederick II accomplished this feat while being surrounded by powerful neighbors that possessed larger populations, armies, and financial excess. His initial assessment on the state
Frederick II of Prussia, commonly known as Frederick the Great, ruled Prussia from 1740 until his death in 1786. He led Prussia through multiple wars, most notably the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War. His greatest, and perhaps most debated, accomplishment involved the annexation of Silesia in 1740 and the three subsequent wars that followed it. His campaigns brought about the ascendance of Prussia from a second rate German principality to a major continental power. His command
Frederick The Great When discussing the topic if it is better to feared or loved when running a monarchy Niccolò Machiavelli said “One should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved.” Frederick the great defined the odds of Machiavelli’s philosophy, because he was both an Absolute and enlightened ruler in the 17 century from 1740 until 1786. He showed through his rule that is possible to be both feared and loved and still
Frederick II, the Great was the King of Prussia from 1740-1786, he was the successor of his father Frederick William I (Kishlansky, Geary and O'Brien). Catherine the Great was married to Peter III and the Empress of Russia during the years of 1762-1796 (Kishlansky, Geary and O'Brien). Even though they were both leaders that made lasting changes for their countries they had different methods of ruling, making different contributions along with mistakes. The following paragraphs will give more detail
Joseph I. This proved prescient: in May 1717 the emperor’s own eldest daughter was born and on his death in 1740, she duly succeeded as Archduchess of Austria as well as to the thrones of the Bohemian and Hungarian lands within the Habsburg Monarchy as Queen Maria Theresa. During the emperor’s lifetime the Pragmatic Sanction
After studying several absolute monarchs from the Age of Absolutism, I believe that these kinds of rulers helped their nations more than they hurt them. I can think of three absolute monarchs that benefitted their nations greatly, and the first is Catherine the Great of Russia. Catherine seized the throne from her inept husband, Peter III, and began to rule Russia. She was a patron of the arts and a supporter of the enlightenment, especially when it comes to women who participated in the arts. Catherine
Succession quickly followed. In 1754, another war followed, the Seven Years War, also known as the French and Indian War. It ended in 1763 and Austria was not a winner. In 1772, the First Partition of Poland divided up Poland into three parts for Prussia, Austria, and Russia. All of these renowned events took place during the reign of Maria Theresa. She died in 1780, leaving behind 16 children and a thriving monarchy. The reign of Maria Theresa definitely had its accomplishments. Maria Theresa She
improving Prussia as a state. One of the main goals was to unify the north German states under the Prussian control as well as to weaken it’s rivals such as Austria, by removing it from the Bund. Other goals were to make Berlin the center of German affairs and reform from the Liberals in the Prussian Parliament (the Reichstag). By the 18th century Prussia was one of the most ruling powers in Europe along with other nations like Britain, Italy and Russia. In order to expand, Prussia had to take
the economic and political futures for all of Europe in the eighteenth century and for all time to come. In this essay I will discuss the causes, the events, and finally the results of this important war, which consisted of the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War. The War of the Austrian Succession began as King Frederick II gained the throne to Prussia, and in less than a year ordered his troops to take and occupy the large Austrian province of Silesia. The leader of Austria
Frederick the Great of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria adopted the newfound ideas of the Enlightenment to different extents with Frederick the Great advancing the ideas by implementing religious toleration, freedom of speech and press, and setting a single code of laws for all of his subjects and not advancing them by not abolishing serfdom for fear of upsetting the “Junkers”, or Prussian nobility; Joseph II advanced the ideas of the Enlightenment eagerly by completely abolishing serfdom paying
eighteenth century, many rulers started to combine their absolute power with including the newly granted rights of the people. The belief also shifted from Divine Right to one that the people gave the king his power which led to kings like Frederick II of Prussia to rule with his people’s interests in mind. To begin with, Machiavelli’s “The Prince” laid out the foundation of what absolute rulers should be. Machiavelli thought that princes should be well educated in war since he would then have the
the Glorious Revolution of 1658. However, in France, Louis XIV¡¯s absolutist regime decreased the powers of the noble but heightened their material status. In Russia and in Prussia, the absolutist leaders of those countries modernized their nations + the nobility underwent a change, but it retained prestige + power. Charles I considered himself to be an absolute monarch in England in the 1630¡¯s. A large portion of the parliament dislikes him because they wanted more of a say on the government and
From Prussia with Love: A History of the Factory Model of U.S. Education Public education in the U.S. is modeled after the 18th century Prussian factory style system of education which hinders creativity and ultimate academic success. To understand the roots of modern mass education, one must begin in Prussia. In 1806, the nation- state suffered a huge military blow and Napoleon’s army conquered much of its territory. The Prussian government decided that the way to overcome their loss and create
Maria Theresa, although agreed to the aforementioned treaty to end the war of her accession, would always seek revenge on Frederick for the humiliation he had inflicted on her. If these loyalties or interests I should say hadn’t changed, what would the effect on the world be today? Would you or I be speaking some other language? French perhaps? The Enlightened Despots, Frederick? Was he? Maria Theresa? Hardly, Catherine had absolutely no impact whatsoever, and William Pitt, while he was an effective
The Franco-Prussian war was waged between France and Prussia with a coalition of German States from July 15, 1870 to February 1, 1871. Prussian leadership of the German states had been confirmed after Prussia’s defeat of Austria in the Seven Weeks’ War in 1866. This threatened France’s position as the dominant power in Europe. The candidacy of Prince Leopold, for the Spanish throne, was one of the immediate causes of the Franco-Prussian war. It was Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian chancellor, and
Otto von Bismarck answered the call. By single-handedly unifying the German states, Otto von Bismarck secured his place as one of the greatest contemporary European statesmen. Otto von Bismarck was born in Prussia in 1815, to a Junker father, and a middle-class mother. The Junkers in Prussia, were a sort of aristocracy, but with less wealth and political influence than, say, the 19th century English aristocracy. Since
Empire, united under the rule of the German Emperor, or Kaiser. There are many factors which led to the unification of the German states: liberalism, nationalism, Otto Von Bismarck, fear of ‘another Napoleon’, the Prussian King William I, and the three wars Prussia fought. One of the key factors which led to the unification was nationalism. Nationalism is the idea that certain things such as race, culture, religion, language or territory set them apart from those around them, and they could identify
powerful state was Austria which was the biggest factor in the increase of Prussia’s influence by 1862. Prussia was the second most powerful state but she was far behind Austria politically and economically. In 1815 the Austrian foreign minister Metternich made a big mistake by giving Prussia the area of Westphalia and the Rhineland. Prussia was also given parts of Silesia. In trying to make Prussia more ‘German’ Metternich had effectively signed Austria's death warrant. The Rhineland was full of