Produced by Cathy Maxam, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber’s Notes Illustrations at the beginning and end of chapters are decorative headpieces and tailpieces. Other Notes will be found at the end of this eBook. Heroes of the Nations A Series of Biographical Studies presenting the lives and work of certain representative historical characters, about whom have gathered the traditions of the nations to which they belong, and who have, in the majority of instances, been accepted as types of the several national ideals. 12°, Illustrated, cloth, each $1.50 Half Leather, gilt top, each $1.75 Nos. 33 and following Nos. net $1.35 Each (By mail, $1.50) Half Leather, gilt top net $1.60 (By mail, $1.75) FOR FULL LIST SEE END OF THIS VOLUME Heroes of the Nations EDITED BY H. W. Carless Davis FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD FACTA DUCIS VIVENT OPEROSAQUE GLORIA RERUM.—OVID, IN LIVIAM, 266. THE HERO’S DEEDS AND HARD-WON FAME SHALL LIVE. FREDERICK THE GREAT [Illustration: FREDERICK THE GREAT. AFTER THE PAINTING BY CARLO VANLOO.] FREDERICK THE GREAT AND THE RISE OF PRUSSIA BY W. F. REDDAWAY, M.A. FELLOW AND LECTURER OF KING’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; LECTURER IN HISTORY TO NON-COLLEGIATE STUDENTS; AUTHOR OF “THE MONROE DOCTRINE” (CAMB. UNIV. PRESS) G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK 27 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET LONDON 24 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND The Knickerbocker Press 1904 COPYRIGHT, 1904 BY G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS Published, April, 1904 The Knickerbocker Press, New York TO THE NON-COLLEGIATE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE [Illustration] PREFACE