Frederick the Great sucks. Tell me why he is so great, Veeky Forums. He plays the flute like a sissy girl.
Frederick the Great sucks. Tell me why he is so great, Veeky Forums. He plays the flute like a sissy girl
Dominic Cox
Aiden Williams
He had sex with Voltaire, thus performing a mega-cucking of the
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
Asher Harris
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Justin Ramirez
Its that one asshurt polack again.
Jeremiah Ortiz
Asshurt about what? Prussia doesn't exist.
Thomas Wood
I don't like Friedrich and that's because I think Prussia was one of the states that did most harm to Germany.
>Prussia unites Germany
>Less than one hundred years later Germany has lost its eastern regions and seen eastern Europe get cleansed of Germans
William Mitchell
OP here. If Frederick is so great, then how come he's dead?
The German people of 100% Prussian ancestry love to rant and rave about this man but he has been dead for more than a century. Have they not noticed his absence for so long?
Jacob Morales
>Implying the unification of germany was the only factor causing ww1 and ww2 and the loss of german territory
History is highly complex and the result of thousands of factors
This good/bad narrative is awful
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Jayden Price
flute is a fine instrument you philistine
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Sebastian Walker
He made prussia great again during the seven years war
Eli Bennett
>he won the Seven Years' war with his tiny nation
When will this meme end? Frederick was suffering defeat after defeat from being pummeled by the french, austrian and russian troops.
All that saved him is that Catherine's idiotic son betrayed the alliance he was in once he was crowned (i. e. the miracle of the house of Hozzenhollerns).
The only war in which Frederick somewhat won is that of the austrian succession, and even then, it was France's contribution that saved him.
Cameron Barnes
>defeat after defeat
Don't try to be so contrarian
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Carter Rivera
All monarchs are terrible. If they're not completely retarded, we celebrate them.
Logan Roberts
Those all still culminate in him being besieged in Berlin.
The only praise I might heave on him is that he was smart to divide the coalition against him, but as soon as they linked up, he was doomed.
Certainly not a bad tactician and strategist, but good enough to be memed as an equal to Alexander and Napoleon?
My problem with him is that he's one of those leaders about whom its repeated that he was "le so awesome" without anyone knowing what his accomplishments were.
But got to say, that's some sweet K/D ratio Fred.
Eli Gutierrez
1. Kick serious military ass
2. Have sex with everyone and everything
3. Become the shining light of the Enlightenment by valuing learning and knowledge over everything else
4. ?????
5. PROFIT!!!1!
Brandon Torres
Every great leader had more than a little luck on his side.
>Frederick the Great
>having sex
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Jason Mitchell
>Manage to hold your own for quite some time against 3 powers which are each exponentially bigger then your own
>not an accomplishment
Isaiah Watson
Introduced the Potato.
Leo Rivera
Enough to make him Honorary King of the Baltics and Rightful Ruler of Baltic Prussia
Brayden Ward
Sounds hilarious, but actually did it.
Gavin Phillips
>Certainly not a bad tactician and strategist, but good enough to be memed as an equal to Alexander and Napoleon?
I doubt they would have fared much better had they been in charge of 18th century Prussia. Frederick made up for the horrible strategic disposition he was in (and there was nothing he could have changed about that) through tactical ingenuity, making him one of the greatest military tacticians in history.