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The Development of Modern Europe Volume I
408 printed pages
- Copyright owner
- Bookwire
- Original publication
- 2017
- Publication year
- 2017
- Publisher
- Jovian Press
Quotes
- Jug Vukićevićhas quoted4 years ago
Since Catharine was to play a conspicuous role in all the affairs of Europe for thirty-five years, a word must be said of the manner in which this German woman became the ruler of all the Russias. She was the daughter of one of Frederick the Great’s officers and had been selected by him in 1743, at the request of the Tsarina Elizabeth, as a suitable wife for Peter, the heir to the throne. At the age of fourteen this inexperienced girl found herself in the midst of the intrigues of the court at St. Petersburg; she joined the Greek Church, exchanged her name of Sophia for that of Catharine, and, by zealous study of both books and men, prepared to make her new name famous. - Jug Vukićevićhas quoted4 years agoHowever, it was in this very war that Frederick earned his title of “the Great” and showed himself the equal of the ablest generals that the world has seen, from Alexander of Macedon to Napoleon. Learning the object of the allies, he did not wait for them to declare war upon him; with entire disregard of international law, he invaded Saxony, expelled the elector, assumed the administration of the province, and defeated the Austrians sent against him (1756). The next year, however, he found himself thickly beset with difficulties. Sweden, having joined the coalition against him, occupied East Pomerania; France began to pour an enormous army into his Rhenish provinces; Russian troops invaded Prussia and overwhelmed the general whom Frederick dispatched against them; and Frederick himself was badly beaten at Kolin by the imperial army.
- Jug Vukićevićhas quoted4 years agostatus quo ante bellum, which meant that everything should be restored in general to the conditions which existed before hostilities began.
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