{"id":2173,"date":"2012-01-24T00:38:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T21:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2012-01-02T16:40:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T13:40:29","slug":"300-years-today-24th-jan-1712-birth-frederick-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/historical-periods\/early-modern\/300-years-today-24th-jan-1712-birth-frederick-great\/","title":{"rendered":"300 Years ago today (24th Jan. 1712): Birth of Frederick the Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/90\/Friedrich_Zweite_Alt.jpg\/220px-Friedrich_Zweite_Alt.jpg\" alt=\"Fred\" \/>Frederick II&#8217;s first act on assuming the throne of Prussia in 1740 was to take his state to war\u2014a consequence, he later explained, of possessing a well-trained army, a full treasury and a desire to establish a reputation. For the next quarter century he confronted Europe in arms and emerged victorious, but at a price that left his kingdom shaken to its physical and moral core. As many as a quarter million Prussians died in uniform, to say nothing of civilian losses. Provinces were devastated, people scattered, the currency debased. The social contract of the Prussian state\u2014service and loyalty in return for stability and protection\u2014was broken&#8230;[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.historynet.com\/frederick-the-great-the-first-modern-military-celebrity.htm\">more<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick II&#8217;s first act on assuming the throne of Prussia in 1740 was to take his state to war\u2014a consequence, he later explained, of possessing a well-trained army, a full treasury and a desire to establish a reputation. For the next quarter century he confronted Europe in arms and emerged victorious, but at a price&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/historical-periods\/early-modern\/300-years-today-24th-jan-1712-birth-frederick-great\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-z3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}