After The Battle of Mollwitz Frederick, had learned a great deal about war and the people of the world were enthralled by ...

Then there's Freddie Walzel, whose parents were the last from Silesia, Prussia, to settle in Silesia, Md. Not surprisingly, German was his first language, and, unlike the others, he has twice gone ...

For 1,000 years the dynamic Germans pushed the Slavic peoples eastward, across the Spree, across the Oder, out of Pomerania and Silesia, out of the flatlands of East Prussia. Now Germans—at ...

Prussia herself, undertook, at its close, the ignominious task of "pacifying" a country with an army of 30,000 men, a considerable fleet, an enthusiastic population, a just cause, and a strong ...

Most of Silesia had been German for centuries, either as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire or latterly of Prussia and it became part of unified Germany in 1871. The population in the heavily ...

April 11th 1741, After The Battle of Mollwitz Frederick, had learned a great deal about war and the people of the world were enthralled by such a small power like Prussia taking over Silesia.