THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF MARIA THERESA IN THE VIENNA HOFFBURG 190 Reproduced by permission of A. F. Czihaks Nachflg, Vienna. LEOPOLD, COUNT VON DAUN 214 From a copper print. PLAN OF PRAGUE, MAY 6, 1757 216 PLAN OF KOLIN, JUNE 18, 1757 222 FREDERICK VIEWING THE BURNING BRIDGE AT WEISSENFELS 234 From a relief on his statue at Weissenfels. PLAN OF ROSSBACH, NOVEMBER 5, 1757 236 PLAN OF LEUTHEN, DECEMBER 5, 1757 246 THE CHARGE OF THE WALLOON DRAGOONS AT KOLIN 248 From a relief on the monument of Victory near Křečhoř, unveiled 1898. MAP FOR THE SILESIAN AND SEVEN YEARS’ WARS 254 PLAN OF ZORNDORF, AUGUST 25, 1758 260 BATTLE OF HOCHKIRCH, OCTOBER 14, 1758 264 BATTLE OF KUNERSDORF, AUGUST 12, 1759 270 BATTLE OF LIEGNITZ, AUGUST 15, 1760 286 BATTLE OF TORGAU, NOVEMBER 3, 1760 292 THE NEW PALACE AT POTSDAM 308 JOSEPH THE SECOND 322 After the painting by Listard. WENZEL ANTON, PRINCE VON KAUNITZ 326 After the painting by Steiner. UNTER DEN LINDEN IN 1780 340 From an etching by Rosentag. DEATH-MASK OF FREDERICK THE GREAT 344 From the original in the Hohenzollern Museum, Berlin. COFFINS OF FREDERICK THE GREAT (RIGHT) AND FREDERICK WILLIAM I. (LEFT) IN THE GARRISON CHURCH AT POTSDAM 348 FREDERICK THE SECOND, KING OF PRUSSIA 356 After the painting by Chodowiecki. [Illustration] [Illustration] FREDERICK THE GREAT INTRODUCTION In the Austrian and Prussian capitals to-day the traveller may mark the contrast between two great statues, in each of which the meaning of a reign is set forth with happy instinct. In the heart of imperial Vienna is seated the colossal figure of Maria Theresa, the Victoria of an age when a Pompadour could sway the fate of nations. Her effigy presents her as the mother of her people, displaying rather than obscuring the scholars, statesmen, and warriors who cluster round her feet, sharing harmoniously the glory which neither Queen nor people could have won without the other’s aid.