The War of the Bavarian Succession 1778-1779: Prussian Military Power in Decline? Querengsser Alexander
Due to its successes against Austria in the first two Silesian Wars and the Seven Years War, the Prussian army is considered to have been Europe's best in the middle of the eighteenth century. Yet…
Specifikacia The War of the Bavarian Succession 1778-1779: Prussian Military Power in Decline? Querengsser Alexander
Due to its successes against Austria in the first two Silesian Wars and the Seven Years War, the Prussian army is considered to have been Europe's best in the middle of the eighteenth century. Yet half a century later the once-mighty forces of Frederick the Great were crushed on the fields of Jena and Auerstdt. The short War of the Bavarian Succession (1778-1779), the last war of Frederick the Great, is often considered as a first stage in the rapid decline of Prussia's Ancien Rgime forces.However, this study takes a fresh view on this conflict. It gives a critical analysis of the strength and limitations of the Frederician war machine, before offering a narrative of this forgotten war, which, because of its lack of battles, was scoffed at by contemporaries as a 'potato war', as soldiers struggled more to find food than to fight the enemy. While the war definitely revealed
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