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PINYL #33: Shocking The System
🕑 Added 2021-05-10 05:00:04 +0000 UTC[PATRONS]
Frederick's motives for making war were multi-layered, but his entire act was wholly unexpected by most of Europe. Should the rest of Europe have seen Frederick the Great's first war coming? Or should they have looked at a potential major motive of the famed Prussian King? That motive being, beating his neighbour, the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, Augustus III to the punch, in every endeavour. A vulnerable Silesia could be snapped up by the Saxon, which would unite his Polish and German domains, a prospect which Frederick could never allow.
And the Saxon Elector King is only ONE motive that may have driven Frederick the Great forward in 1740, as he shocked the European system, and utterly transformed the course of history. It sounds the most important war you've never heard about, and another installment of Poland Is Not Yet Lost!
