Education, Prussian, 338 Eichel, 150, 164, 180, 182, 201, 225, 226, 232, 233, 239, 240, 242, 265, 279 Elector Palatine, 333, 342 Elizabeth of Brunswick-Bevern, 44 _ff._, 161 Elizabeth of Russia, 130, 193, 197, 257, 296, 353 Emden, 133 Empire, Holy Roman, 4, 13, 36, 56 _ff._, 62, 75, 76, 86, 95, 210 England, 21, 31, 58, 60, 61, 84, 92, 135, 136, 148, 317, 332 Ermland, 327 Eugene, 44, 52, 66, 96 Euler, 185, 352 Europe 1713–56, 191 _ff._ Excise, 165, 178, 347 F Fehrbellin, battle of, 16, 17, 46, 65 Ferdinand of Brunswick, 231, 238, 252, 253, 276, 283 Ferdinand, Prince, 99, 266 Fermor, 257 _ff._ Finck, 274, 279 Finckenstein, 285, 292 Fleury, 63, 84, 96, 99, 107, 108, 117, 119, 122, 135 Fontenoy, 143, 148, 194 Fouqué, 283, 284 Francis of Lorraine (Emperor Francis I.), 97, 100, 101, 149 Frankfort, on the Main, 81, 118 Frankfort, Union of, 136 Frankfurt-on-Oder, 99, 185, 269 Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg 1640–86. _See_ Great Elector. Frederick I. (King in Prussia 1701), otherwise Frederick III., Elector of Brandenburg 1686–1713, 18–20, 22, 25, 32, 72 Frederick II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, statue (Berlin, Unter den Linden), 1; policy, 3, 62 _ff._, 77, 83 _ff._, 102, 129 _ff._, 169 _ff._, 183 _ff._; and his forerunners, Chapter I. _passim_, 14, 17, 23; on Thirty Years’ War, 8; mother, _see_ Sophia Dorothea; birth, 25; personality, 25, 49 _ff._, 107, 128, 132, 133, 143, 159 _ff._, 261, 262, 281, 282, 296, 305; education, 28 _ff._, 41 _ff._; marriage, 31, 44 _ff._; plan of flight (1730), 32, 33; trial and imprisonment, 33 _ff._; writings, 53, 55, 75, 163; philosophy, etc., 53 _ff._, 73 _ff._, 160, 290, 291, 295, 304 _ff._, 319; accession and early measures, 77 _ff._; seizure of Silesia, 89 _ff._; campaign of 1741, 109 _ff._; Klein Schnellendorf, etc., 120 _ff._; campaign of 1742, 123 _ff._; diplomacy of 1743–44, 134 _ff._; campaign of 1744, 137 _ff._; campaign of 1745, 141 _ff._; in peace, 1746–56, 155 _ff._; and religion, 79, 105, 170 _ff._; habits, 162 _ff._; power, 164 _ff._; and Seven Years’ War, 195 _ff._; in 1757, 211 _ff._; in 1758, 251 _ff._; in 1759, 266 _ff._; in 1760, 281 _ff._; in 1761, 293 _ff._; in 1762, 296 _ff._; in 1763, 299 _ff._; his work of restoration, 306 _ff._; economic policy, 312 _ff._; foreign policy from 1763, 322 _ff._; partition of Poland, 325 _ff._; and West-Preussen, 330, 331; foreign policy from 1772, 332; Bavarian Succession, 333 _ff._; life and government from 1779, 337 _ff._; foreign policy from 1779, 339 visit to Silesia in 1785, 344; illness and death, 345 _ff._; estimate of, 350 _ff._