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cahn ([personal profile] cahn) wrote2021-10-04 10:27 pm
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Frederick the Great and Other 18th-C Characters, Discussion Post 31

And in this post:

-[personal profile] luzula is going to tell us about the Jacobites and the '45!

-I'm going to finish reading Nancy Goldstone's book about Maria Theresia and (some of) her children Maria Christina, Maria Carolina, and Marie Antoinette, In the Shadow of the Empress, and [personal profile] selenak is going to tell us all the things wrong with the last four chapters (spoiler: in the first twenty chapters there have been many, MANY things wrong)!

-[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard is going to tell us about Charles XII of Sweden and the Great Northern War

(seriously, how did I get so lucky to have all these people Telling Me Things, this is AWESOME)

-oh, and also there will be Yuletide signups :D
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Re: Kloosterhuis: Long Fellows

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard 2021-10-24 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
General Lieutenant Adrian Bernhard von Borcke

I keep forgetting to mention that according to previous salon discussion, when we did the Borcke genealogy, this is the father of the FW2 educator. The one who got dismissed by Fritz for making comments about the superiority of peace over war right after Fritz had just won his big war. (Wikipedia says his salary was still paid after the dismissal, though. Take that, Des Champs!

Des Champs: That's because Evil Fredersdorf wasn't around to pocket it!)
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Re: Kloosterhuis: Long Fellows

[personal profile] selenak 2021-10-24 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL. Presumably Borcke's social standing vs that of Des Champs and Borcke's utter lack of spying, err, being totally FRAMED for spying also played a role...