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Chapter 6
Military Affairs, Diplomacy, and War
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The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)
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Fireworks in Nuremberg in Celebration of the Agreement on the Implementation of the Treaty of Westphalia (1650)
The Imperial War Constitution [Reichskriegsverfassung] (1681-82)
The Battle of Fehrbellin on June 28, 1675 (c. 1675)
The City of Stettin under Siege by Frederick William (“the Great Elector”) in the Winter of 1677-78 (c. 1680)
Ottoman Sultan Mahmud IV’s Declaration of War on Emperor Leopold I, signed at Adrianople [Edirne] (February 20, 1683)
The Turkish Defeat at Vienna (September 12, 1683)
Broadside Depicting the Destruction of Heidelberg (1689) under the Leadership of French General Mélac
Prince Eugene of Savoy and His General Staff at the Battle of Zenta on September 11, 1697 (1712)
Commemorative Diagram of the Siege of Stralsund in the Year 1715 (1718)
Eighteenth-Century Military Recruiting Strategy – A Little Pocket Change and a Strong Drink (1726)
Introduction of the Brandenburg-Prussian Canton System of Military Recruitment [Kantonreglement], issued by Frederick William I (“the Soldier King”), as an Order to General Field Marshal Albrecht Konrad Finck von Finckenstein (May 1, 1733)
Frederick II Leads the Third Charge of the Prussian Cavalry at the Battle of Mollwitz on April 10, 1741 (late 18th century)
Frederick II’s Sketch of the Battle of Mollwitz on April 10, 1741
Frederick II (“the Great”) of Prussia, “General Principles of War” (1748/1753)
The Battlefield at Hohenfriedberg/Silesia on June 4, 1745 (18th century)
Fireworks in Strasbourg Celebrating the Declaration of Peace after the War of the Austrian Succession on February 23, 1749 (1749)
Count Kaunitz’s Views on Austrian Foreign Policy (March 24, 1749)
Commemorative Reproduction of the Battle of Leuthen on December 5, 1757 (1758)
Commemorative Plan of the Battle of Roßbach (Saxony) on November 5, 1757 (c. 1760)
Evaluation of the Armed Forces of the Holy Roman Empire after their Defeat under Austrian Command at the Battle of Roßbach (November 24, 1757)
Frederick II (“the Great”) on the Eve of the Battle of Leuthen (November 28 and December 3, 1757)
Hussars Force Monks from a Marienfelde Cloister to Drink to Frederick II (1758)
Prussian Occupation of Bamberg during the Seven Years’ War (c. 1760)
Allegorical Depiction of the Peace of Hubertusburg between Prussia, Austria, and Saxony (Poland) (1763)
A Soldier’s Wife Begging (1764)
Prussian King Frederick II (“the Great”), Correspondence Preceding the First Partition of Poland (1770-71)
First Military Punishment: How an Honorable Man Receives a Beating (1776)
Second Military Punishment: How a Scoundrel Receives a Beating (1776)
The Guards Parade before Frederick II (1777)
Prussian Uniforms c. 1779: Hussars from Various Regiments
Allegorical Depiction of the Peace of Teschen of May 13, 1779 (c. 1800)
Prussian Uniforms c. 1785: Officer and Infantryman from the 1st Guard Battalion, Regiment No. 15 (late 18th century)
Meeting between Napoleon and Emperor Francis I of Austria after the Battle of Austerlitz (c. 1812)
The Battle of Jena on October 14, 1806 (19th century)
Presentation of the Emperor’s Gifts to Andreas Hofer at the Hofburg in Innsbruck (19th Century)
Prussian General Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst (before 1813)
Deployment of the Prussian Landwehr in the Year 1813 (1860-61)
Frederick William III of Prussia, Francis I of Austria, and Russian Czar Alexander I Meet for the First Time in Prague on March 18, 1813 (19th century)
The Battle of Nations in Leipzig on October 19, 1813 (after 1813)
Allegorical Depiction of the Return of the Quadriga to the Brandenburg Gate (1814)
Law on the Introduction of Universal Military Service in Prussia (September 3, 1814)
The End of the Napoleonic Drama (1814)
Prince Blücher and the Duke of Wellington Meet at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815 (19th century)
The Final Moments of the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815 (19th century)
Responses to the Revolutions in America and France
Crime and Punishment