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With Frederick the Great

CHAPTER 1: King and Marshal
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It is this that has brought both France and Russia on him.

Madame Pompadour, who is all powerful, hates Frederick for having made disrespectful remarks concerning her.

The Empress of Russia detests him, for the same reason.

She of Austria has a better cause, for she has never forgiven the loss of Silesia; and it is the enmity of these women, as much as the desire to partition Prussia, that is about to plunge Europe into a war to the full as terrible as that of the thirty years." Keith now rung a bell, and a soldier entered.
"Tell Lieutenant Lindsay that I wish to speak to him." A minute later an officer entered the room, and saluted stiffly.
"Lindsay, this is a young cousin of mine, Fergus Drummond.

The king has appointed him to a cornetcy in the 3rd Royal Dragoon Guards, but he is going to be one of my aides-de-camp.


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