Fritzian battles for beginners
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rheinsbergRemembering key Fritzian battles:
Mollwitz (1741): His first battle, where he leaves early and is truly embarrassed by Schwerin winning it without him.
Soor (1745): wins the battle, loses the baggage train, including flutes, clothes, state papers, war chest, Biche, and Eichel. Has to wear extra-large shirts borrowed from AW, Wilhelmine has lunch with MT around this time, he writes a really bad condolence letter to EC...very fic-worthy aftermath.
Kolin (1757): first defeat, meltdown afterwards, tells Heinrich he wants to die, has him prepare the retreat. AWscapegoated cashiered for his part in the retreat.
Rossbach (1757): beat the French, impress the French, mock the French. :P Huge one-sided victory, one of his only battles where he doesn't have as many casualties as the enemy or more. Heinrich gets lightly wounded.
Leuthen (1757): his most famous and admired obliqueattack tactics order victory. The one where the Austrians make the mistake of entering Prussian training ground where Fritz knows the terrain by heart and uses it against them.
Zorndorf (1758): Seydlitz saves the day with a well-timed cavalry charge, both sides claim victory. Near Küstrin.
Hochkirch (1758): EVERYONE except Fritz can see that the Austrians are going to attack. Fritz tells them all to shut up, then gets woken up a few hours later by "surprise" Austrian attack at like 3 am, loses battle. Wilhelmine dies the same day.
Kunersdorf (1759): the one where Fritz screws up and loses almost all his men (he gets some back later), the Russians and Austrians almost march on Berlin, Fritz hands over command to Finck and Heinrich for a whole week and talks about taking poisonbut loses his recipe, but the First Miracle happens and the Russians and Austrians do fuck-all.
Mollwitz (1741): His first battle, where he leaves early and is truly embarrassed by Schwerin winning it without him.
Soor (1745): wins the battle, loses the baggage train, including flutes, clothes, state papers, war chest, Biche, and Eichel. Has to wear extra-large shirts borrowed from AW, Wilhelmine has lunch with MT around this time, he writes a really bad condolence letter to EC...very fic-worthy aftermath.
Kolin (1757): first defeat, meltdown afterwards, tells Heinrich he wants to die, has him prepare the retreat. AW
Rossbach (1757): beat the French, impress the French, mock the French. :P Huge one-sided victory, one of his only battles where he doesn't have as many casualties as the enemy or more. Heinrich gets lightly wounded.
Leuthen (1757): his most famous and admired oblique
Zorndorf (1758): Seydlitz saves the day with a well-timed cavalry charge, both sides claim victory. Near Küstrin.
Hochkirch (1758): EVERYONE except Fritz can see that the Austrians are going to attack. Fritz tells them all to shut up, then gets woken up a few hours later by "surprise" Austrian attack at like 3 am, loses battle. Wilhelmine dies the same day.
Kunersdorf (1759): the one where Fritz screws up and loses almost all his men (he gets some back later), the Russians and Austrians almost march on Berlin, Fritz hands over command to Finck and Heinrich for a whole week and talks about taking poison
