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  1. A mercenary commander and former liegeman of Frederick, Andreas Baumkircher, instigated a revolt among the Styrian nobility with the support of Matthias Corvinus. With great difficulty Frederick negotiated a truce and had his adversary summarily executed in Graz in 1471, despite having issued an assurance of safe conduct.

  2. 5 days ago · Thenceforth his fortunes followed the course of the Thirty Years War, a struggle in which he took little personal part after his defeat at the Battle of the White Mountain (November 1620). He withdrew to The Hague, and forfeited the Palatinate. George I of Great Britain (1660–1727) was his grandson.

    • “No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people, and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.”
    • “Without supplies no army is brave.” – Frederick the Great.
    • “Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score.” – Frederick the Great.
    • “It is your attitude, and the suspicion that you are maturing the boldest designs against him, that imposes on your enemy.” – Frederick the Great.
  3. It was him who saw Prussia officially become a great power, like Britain, France, Russia and Austria. The economy grew well under him, he put in policies to try and avoid people starving when bad harvests happened, and a lot of enlightened thinkers came from Prussia under his rule. He was also Gay.

  4. Frederick exploited a favourable opportunity for his journey to Rome, as Pope Eugene IV and the latter’s successor Nicholas V were indebted to him for their election and for the ending of the papal schism at the Council of Basle. His coronation at Rome represented a great moment in Frederick’s life, one of his rare triumphs.

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  6. Jun 27, 2016 · One slaver rationalized, “We do not consider that we buy and sell them; we consider that we transfer the debt, and the man goes with the debt.”

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