Prussia before the war, Prussia after the war.
Prussia , who was an amateur cellist.
And Prussia essentially comes apart during this.
the Prussians led to the creation of Nazism.
The Prussians know they've got to change how they do things.
And he sees that Prussia is forced into an alliance with France.
He thinks that Prussia should rise up and fight.
They were actually from Prussia , or what is now Poland.
There was a Prussian politician, von Treitschke, who took it up in a big way.
It was Prussian blue, which was a very considerate choice to sort of flip on its head the whole idea of blue is for boys,
But the Prussians had been forced to commit an army to help them do this.
A lot of the Prussians didn't want to be here anyway.
The other countries-- the Prussians, the Russians, the Austrians-- want him to bring Sweden into the war.
But when the Prussian army is defeated here by Napoleon and comes apart, he has this harrowing retreat where he's almost overrun by French cavalry
He grew up in the country of Prussia , which is the country, as you guys know, eventually unifies Germany.
- Christian Goldbach is a little known Prussian mathematician who grew up in the early 1700s.
And here he gets involved in the Prussian Reform Movement.
They've got to make the Prussian people more supportive of the Prussian state, give them an interest in the state.
He's got Russians and Prussians and various Germans.
He's back in the Prussian army.
the guy that uh designed that one his name is Prussia Joseph Prussia and he uh
And you end up with this two-pronged invasion of Prussia by the French that is met by two Prussian armies.
Austria, Prussia , Russia, and Great Britain declare war, but not on France.
He's also perusing the proceedings of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, as you do.
that Clausewitz is in will make contact with the Prussian Expeditionary Corps.
Clausewitz will have a couple of jobs in the Prussian army after this.
So 1817, the Franco Prussian War, which leads to the unification of Germany.
- Yeah, he really hated the Prussian generals.
As Napoleon is retreating, the Prussian troops are also retreating in a different part of Russia.
Clausewitz, he tries to get back in the Prussian army.
The sides were so mixed in, and the Prussians and the Russians were-- essentially, the entire staff, which normally would not have participated--
Then a year later, when war broke out between France and Prussia , German troops hurled dynamite at the French positions.
to be precise, in Koenigsberg, Prussia .
And this campaign is essentially one of the first revolutionary wars, where it's essentially Prussia and Austria fighting the French,
When the war is over, he's sent back to Prussia .
And what this is, briefly, is Prussia was shattered by this war.
Now, they were founded in 1851 by Julius Reuter in what was then Prussia , now Germany.
And Scharnhorst also gets him his next job as well as an adjutant to one of the Prussian princes.
And his unit is the rear guard, meaning the Prussians had essentially already lost the battle.
Now, you remember, the Prussians had been forced to ally with France to invade Russia.
Napoleon, the French commander, defeats the Russian-Prussian army that comes against him.
He doesn't. They won't let him back into the Prussian army, so he's still technically in the Russian army.
He is chief of staff for Thielmann corps, 3rd Corps of the Prussian army.
But in 1818, he goes to be the director of the Prussian War College.
Now, there's a very famous quote by the great Prussian Field Marshal von Moltke that "no plan survives contact
further than that. The flip is still kind of within this Prussian model that we inherited from a country that does not exist,
Some of the famous numbers were the chest sizes of Scottish soldiers, the number of Prussian officers who were killed by kicking horses, the number of victims of
Now, that's what Pareto saw for England, but he performed the same analysis on data from Italy, France, Prussia , and a bunch of other countries,
Well, Clausewitz has become very ambitious, and he's in a country-- Prussia -- where being a soldier matters.
What you have happen in 1806 is essentially where Napoleon, who is the master of most of Europe, he invades the country of Prussia .