"The Soldier Depicted."]

[Footnote 5: V. Loen, "Der Soldat," p. 312.]

[Footnote 6: G. V. Griesheim, "Die Taktik," p. 75; v. Liebenrothe,
"Fragmente," p. 29.]

[Footnote 7: Small smoking society, consisting of the King and his
intimates.--_Tr_.]

[Footnote 8: It was not the bad combination of colours, the blue and
yellow velvet housings, that incensed the dying king--those were the
colours of his body-guard--but he wished to see those of the Dessauer
on him--blue, red, and white.]

[Footnote 9: Lafontaine's "Life of Gruber," p. 126.]

[Footnote 10: "The Poor Man in Tockenburg," published by Fussli.
Zurich: 1789 and 1792. Afterwards by G. Buelow, Leipzig, 1852.]

[Footnote 11: Elector Frederic William inherited 1451 square miles,
with, perhaps, 700,000 inhabitants, most of it in Ordensland,[A]
Prussia, which was less devastated by the war.

Square Miles. Inhabitants.

In the year 1688, the Elector left 2034, with about 1,800,000.
" 1713, King Frederic I. 2090, " 1,700,000.
" 1740, King Frederic Wm. I. 2201, " 2,240,000.
" 1786, King Frederic II. 3490, " 6,000,000.
" 1805, King Frederic II. 6563, " 9,800,000.
(Before the exchange of Hanover.)
" 1807, remain 2877, " 5,000,000.
" 1817, were 5015, " 10,600,000.
" 1830, were 13,000,000 inhabitants; but in 1861, 18,000,000.

[A] Ordensland, the country that once belonged to the Teutonic
Knights.]

[Footnote 12: "Journal de Seckendorf," 2nd Jan., 1738.]

[Footnote 13: [Oe]uvres, t. xvii., nr. 140, p. 213.]

[Footnote 14: _Ib._, t. xviii., nr. 10.]

[Footnote 15: Portions of his historical works appear under special
titles with many introductions. "The Memoirs of the House of
Brandenburg" (begun 1746), the greatest part of it unimportant and
compiled; "History of My Time" (written 1746-75), his masterpiece; then
the great history of "The Seven Years' War" (ended 1764); finally,
"Memoirs after the Hubertsburger Peace" (written 1775-79). They form,
in spite of inequalities, a connected whole.]

[Footnote 16: V. Templehoff, "Siebenjaehriger Krieg," i. p. 282.]

[Footnote 17: Sulzer to Gleim: "Briefe der Schweizer von Koerte," p.
354.]

[Footnote 18: He had in 1759, a year before he wrote