After Frederick William I’s death in 1740, his son and successor took the throne and surprisingly went on to achieve stunning military victories, consolidating Prussia’s role as a great ...

Frederick had succeeded at putting Prussia on the map! The first of many great things to come. Hillary Clinton breaks silence on Trump’s controversial $400m Qatari jet US set to kill off tech ...

Tim Blanning, Frederick the Great: King of Prussia (New York ... The musicians, composers and performers he recruited set Prussia on the cultural map, drawing praise that further enhanced his ...

As long as the positive aspects of Frederick the Great and Prussia are emphasized, then I see no harm,” Mr. von Thadden said. The controversy over yesterday’s ceremony has been brewing all summer.

Historian Christopher Clark re-examines the life and achievements of one of Germany's most colourful and controversial leaders, the Prussian king Frederick the Great. The Prussian king Frederick ...

In the late 18th century, Prussia's King Frederick the Great (officially Frederick II) blacklisted coffee and encouraged his royal subjects to drink something far more wholesome—beer.

Frederick the Great of Prussia has been enjoying his home in central Pennsylvania for more than half a century now, but many visitors wonder how he got here and what a European king is doing in ...

Greg Jenner is joined by special guests Stephen Fry and Dr Bodie Ashton as they travel back to 18th-century Prussia and look at the life of Frederick the Great. Show more Greg Jenner is joined by ...

It affords an appropriate site, setting, and background for that statue of FREDERICK the Great which we owe to the good-will of his successor as King of Prussia, the present German Emperor ...