ONE:BATTLE OF KUNERSDORF, AUGUST 12, 1759.Thus Bavaria turned against Frederick. It was manifest to all that Maria Theresa, aided by the alliances into which she had entered, and sustained by the gold which the English cabinet so generously lavished upon her, would be able to place the imperial crown upon her husband��s brow. It was equally evident that the sceptre of power, of which that crown was the emblem, would be entirely in her own hands. THREE:CAMPAIGN OF HOCHKIRCH.An embassador, Count De Gotter, was sent to Vienna to present this demand to Maria Theresa. He was authorized, in case these terms were not accepted, to declare war. But in the mean time, before the count could possibly reach Vienna, consequently before there was any declaration of war, or even any demand presented, Frederick, at the head of his troops, had entered Silesia, and was seizing its defenseless fortresses.42

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ONE: Commencement of the Sixth Campaign.��The Fortified Camp at Bunzelwitz.��Skillful Engineering.��Unintermitted Toil of the Soldiers.��Retreat of the Russians.��Loss of Schweidnitz.��Peculiar Treatment of General Zastrow.��Close of the Sixth Campaign.��The King at Breslau.��Desponding Letter to D��Argens.��Death of Elizabeth of Russia.��Accession of Peter III.��His Marriage with the Daughter of a Prussian General.��Takes the Baptismal Name of Catharine.��Assassination of Peter III.��Curious Proclamation by the Empress.��Commencement of the Seventh Campaign.��Alliance of Russia with Prussia.��Withdrawal from the Alliance.��Termination of the War.The Austrian envoy expressed to his court a suspicion that Silesia might be threatened. The reply which came back was that the Austrian court would not, and could not, believe that a prince who was under such obligations to the father of Maria Theresa, and who had made such loud professions of integrity and philanthropy, could be guilty of such an outrage.

ONE: ��Frederick.��He had hardly arrived at Leitmeritz ere he received the tidings of the death of Sophia Dorothea, his mother. She died at Berlin on the 28th of June, 1757, in the seventy-first year of her age. This grief, coming in the train of disasters which seemed to be overwhelming his Prussian majesty, affected him very deeply. Frederick was subdued and softened by sorrow. He remembered the time when a mother��s love rocked his cradle, and wrapped him around with tender care. The reader will be surprised to learn that his grief��perhaps with some comminglings of remorse��was so great that he shut himself in his closet, and wept with sobbings like a child.

THREE:Frederick had hardly reached Berlin ere he was astonished to learn, from dispatches from the Old Dessauer, that the Austrians, not content with driving him out of Bohemia, had actually invaded Silesia. Amazed, or affecting amazement, at such audacity, he sent reiterated and impatient orders to his veteran general to fall immediately upon the insolent foe and crush him.

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FORE:At Wesel the king met Maupertuis, to whom we have already alluded, who was then one of the greatest of European celebrities. His discovery of the flattening of the earth at the poles had given him such renown that the kings of Russia, France, and Prussia were all lavishing honors upon him. It was a great gratification to Frederick that he had secured his services in organizing the Berlin Academy. While at Wesel the king was seized by a fever, which shut him up for a time in the small chateau of Moyland. He had never yet met Voltaire, and being very anxious to see him, wrote to him as follows, under date of September 6th, 1740: