How to pronounce “prussian” in English

The Prussians know they've got to change how they do things.

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 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

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.

- 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 back in the Prussian army.

He's got Russians and Prussians and various Germans.

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--

And Scharnhorst also gets him his next job as well as an adjutant to one of the Prussian princes.

And you end up with this two-pronged invasion of Prussia by the French that is met by two Prussian armies.

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

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

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.

Well, go hang you, you cautious, awful, aristocratic, Prussian generals.

under the domain of law, beginning, again as I mentioned earlier, with the first modern codification of the Laws of War by the Prussian, later American, lawyer and political scientist,

And because they've been doing it in, for lack of a better word, this Prussian factory model, where even if you have gaps in a basic concept,

And eventually, he just resigns from the army in the midst of all of this-- from the Prussian army.

So he gets himself detailed to his old friend Scharnhorst here, who is essentially the chief of staff for the Prussian army here.

And two of those who fought in the Napoleonic Wars, not on the same side-- the Swiss Germany and the Prussian Clausewitz-- I became the main interpreters

And we played for like six hours, a single battle, where we were playing Napoleonic miniatures, and I was one of the members of the Prussian army.

So what you will see after the armistice is a gigantic campaign that the Austrians, who enter the war, the Prussians, and the Russians

I've blogged about it, I've compared Google to the French Revolution at Napoleon Bonaparte, and your competitors to the Prussians.