Frederick the Great — The King Napoleon Studied

Frederick the Great - the king who took a sandy, broken electorate and made it a great power. The man Napoleon studied like scripture. The soldier-philosopher who carried poison for seven years rather than surrender, fought four empires at once, and built a state that outlasted him by a century and a half.This is his life. From the cell window at Küstrin to the tomb at Potsdam Napoleon would not desecrate.⚔ Chapters00:00 Prologue — The Tomb at Potsdam01:40 The Kingdom That Clawed Itself Into Existence07:14 The Soldier-King's Son10:46 The Gamble17:24 The Encirclement19:15 The Years of Fire24:20 The Darkest Year27:54 Old Fritz38:26 What He Left🜃 SourcesChristopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of PrussiaTim Blanning, Frederick the Great: King of PrussiaRobert B. Asprey, Frederick the Great: The Magnificent EnigmaSelected correspondence of Frederick II and Voltaire#FrederickTheGreat #Prussia #MilitaryHistory #SevenYearsWar #Napoleon #EuropeanHistory #GreatMen #AmbientHistory #HistoryPodcast #AmbientLectures