A look at Frederick II who, behind his numerous titles and positions, including both king and emperor, was an "inexhaustible intellectual adventurer and a bold politician and strategist." Christmas ...

On April 10 1741, a Prussian army under King Frederick ii faced an Austrian army under Count Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg. The small electorate of Prussia challenged the mighty Habsburg Dynasty, ...

Frederick II of Hohenstaufen was a highly significant German king and Holy Roman emperor. Raised in Sicily, he was a sponsor of science, a reformer, perhaps even the first modern ruler. But Frederick ...

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