Burggraf Friedrich, on his first coming to Brandenburg, found but a cool reception as Statthalter. He came as the representative of law and rule; and
Brandenburg Sold
Dog cheap, it must be owned, for size and capability; but in the most waste condition, full of mutiny, injustice, anarchy, and highway robbery; a
House of Luxemburg’s Triumph
He is now (1414) holding this Council of Constance, by way of healing the Church, which is sick of three simultaneous popes and of much else. He finds
Brandenburg Pawned
And so we have now reached that point in Brandenburg history when, if some help does not come, Brandenburg will not long be a country, but will either
The House of Hohenzollern Established in Brandenburg
This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: The First of the Dynasty.IntroductionThe Hohenzollern family had gotten
Great Elector’s Domestic Life and Politics
Today's installment concludes The Great Elector Grows Prussia,our selection from History of Friedrich II of Prussia by Thomas Carlyle published in
Pommern Remains Disputed
This Second Exploit -- suggested or not by that prior one of Karl Gustav on the ice -- is still a thing to be remembered by Hohenzollerns and
Battle of Fehrbellin
Fehrbellin is an inconsiderable Town still standing in those peaty regions, some five-and-thirty miles northwest of Berlin, and had for ages plied its
Army Marches Over the Baltic Sea
In January, 1658, Karl Gustav marches his Army, horse, foot, and artillery, to the extent of Twenty thousand, across the Baltic ice, and takes an