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	Frederick William II of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Frederick William II (September 25, 1744 – November 16, 1797), king of Prussia, was known in German as Friedrich Wilhelm II.
		Frederick William was the son of Augustus William (the second son of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia) and of Louise Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, sister of the wife of Frederick the Great.
		Frederick William's accession to the throne (17 August 1786) was, indeed, followed by a series of measures for lightening the burdens of the people, reforming the oppressive French system of tax-collecting introduced by Frederick, and encouraging trade by the diminution of customs dues and the making of roads and canals.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Frederick_William_II (1341 words)

	Frederick William III of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frederick William III, known in German as Friedrich Wilhelm III, reigned as king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840.
		The son of King Frederick William II of Prussia, Frederick William was born in Potsdam on August 3, 1770, and became Crown Prince in 1786, when his father ascended the throne.
		Frederick William was happy at Paretz, and for this reason in 1795 he bought it from his boyhood friend and turned it into an important royal country retreat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_William_III_of_Prussia (697 words)

	Frederick William IV of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		King Frederick William IV of Prussia (October 15, 1795 - January 2, 1861), the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, reigned as King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861.
		Frederick William was educated by private tutors, many of whom were experienced civil servants.
		Frederick William was a staunch Romanticist, and his devotion to this movement, which in the German States featured a nostalgia for the Middle Ages, was largely responsible for him developing into a conservative at an early age.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_William_IV_of_Prussia (762 words)

	FREDERICK WILLIAM IV. - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK WILLIAM IV. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		To Frederick William these came as a complete surprise, and, rudely awakened from his medieval dreamings, he even allowed himself to be carried away for a while by the popular tide.
		For Frederick William the position of leader of Germany now meant the employment of the military force of Prussia to crush the scattered elements of revolution that survived the collapse of the national movement.
		In general it may be said that Frederick William, in spite of his talents and his wide knowledge, lived in a dream-land of hisown, out of touch with actuality.
	47.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FREDERICK_WILLIAM_IV_.htm (1132 words)

	Frederick William I of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Frederick William I of Prussia (in German: Friedrich Wilhelm I), of the House of Hohenzollern, (August 14, 1688 - May 31, 1740), often known as 'the Soldier-King' and considered an Enlightened Despot, reigned as King of Prussia (1713 - 1740).
		Although Frederick William built up one of the most powerful armies in Europe and loved military pomp, he was essentially a peaceful man. He intervened briefly in the Great Northern War, but gained little territory.
		Frederick William would frequently mistreat Fritz (he preferred his younger sibling August William), executing one of his closest friends, Hans Hermann von Katte, and almost disinheriting him.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Friedrich_Wilhelm_I_of_Prussia (606 words)

	Frederick William, elector of Brandenburg. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Frederick William immediately negotiated an armistice with Sweden and then turned to building his military strength.
		Frederick William subsequently joined Sweden in its war against Poland (1655–60) but deserted the Swedes after Russia and Denmark entered the war.
		Frederick William laid the foundation of the Prussian state by repressing the estates, strengthening central administration, husbanding the resources of his lands, improving communication, and building the army.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fr/FredWBra.html (327 words)

	Frederick William Traudt(3)
		Frederick William Traudt(3), born February 28, 1893 in Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri, the son of Ernest William Traudt(2) and Nancy Judith (Wood) Traudt.
		Frederick is known to have served as a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps from August 2, 1916 to April 5, 1919.
		Frederick's occupation was given as government employee in 1946, and as tobacco salesman in 1953 and 1954.
	www.stanford.edu /~bkunde/family/TraudtFrederickWilliam.html (925 words)

	AllRefer.com - Frederick William I (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Frederick William I 1688–1740, king of Prussia (1713–40), son and successor of Frederick I. He continued the administrative reforms and the process of centralization begun by Frederick William, the Great Elector, creating a strong, absolutist state.
		Although Frederick William built up one of the most powerful armies in Europe, he was essentially a peaceful man. He intervened briefly in the Northern War, but gained little territory.
		Frederick William was a coarse man, and he had contempt for his gifted heir, who was to succeed him as Frederick II (Frederick the Great).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FredWil1.html (281 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Frederick William IV
		Frederick William IV (1795-1861), king of Prussia (1840-61), who attempted to unite German states under Prussian rule.
		William IV (of England) (1765-1837), king of Great Britain and Ireland (1830-37) and king of Hannover (1830-37), during whose reign the first Reform...
		William IV (of The Netherlands) (1711-1751), stadtholder of The Netherlands from 1747 to 1751.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Frederick_William_IV.html (173 words)

	Frederick William Herschel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		William Herschel was born in Hanover and died in Slough.
		However, observations in 1790 showed that not all nebulae were composed of stars and forced him to modify his theory accordingly.
		Chapman, Allan, ‘William Herschel and the Measurement of Space’, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol.
	www.thoemmes.com /encyclopedia/herschel.htm (763 words)

	Frederick William I the Soldier King of Prussia
		Frederick William suffered his first attack at the age of 19 with a sudden increase of temperature, colic, a skin rash and fainting fits.
		Frederick William was very fond of coarse practical jokes and when he and his companions all got drunk, the grossest scenes would occur.
		Frederick William first contemplated to execute his son, too, and he bluntly told his pregnant wife that their son was already death.
	www.xs4all.nl /~kvenjb/madmonarchs/fredwil1/fredwil1_tekst.htm (2863 words)

	Frederick William, I Biography / Biography of Frederick William, I Biography Biography
		Frederick William I (1688-1740) was king of Prussia from 1713 to 1740.
		The son of the elector Frederick III of Brandenburg and of Sophie Charlotte of Hanover, Frederick William I was born in Berlin on Aug. 15, 1688.
		Frederick William had come to the throne convinced that Prussia was in danger of being swallowed up by its more powerful neighbors.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-frederick-william-i (730 words)

	Frederick William III of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		As a child, Frederick William's father (under the influence of his mistress,) had Frederick William handed over to tutors and he lived a solitary and repressed life which, tended to increase the innate weakness of his character.
		But though his natural defects of intellect and will-power were not improved by the pedantic tutoring to which he was submitted, he grew up pious and honest.
		In 1813, following Napoleon's defeat in Russia, Frederick William turned against France and signed an alliance with Russia at, although he had to flee Berlin, still under French occupation.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Frederick_William_III_of_Prussia (674 words)

	FREDERICK WILLIAM BEECHEY - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK WILLIAM BEECHEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		(1796-1856), English naval officer and geographer, son of Sir William Beechey, RA., was born in London on the 17th of February 1796.
		He and his brother Henry William Beechey, made an overland survey of this coast, and published a full account of their work in 5828 under the title of Proceedings of the Expedition to Explore the Northern Coast of Africa from Tripoly Eastward in 1821-1822.
		In 1825 Beechey was appointed to command the Blossom, which was intended to explore Bering Strait, in concert with Franklin and Parry operating from the east.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BEECHEY_FREDERICK_WILLIAM.htm (358 words)

	Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Born in 1795, Frederick William IV was the oldest of seven surviving children of Frederick William III and Queen Luise.
		After his father's death in June 1840, Frederick William responded to pressures for change in Prussian society by embarking upon a series of experiments (the United Committees of 1842, the Evangelical General Synod of 1846, and the United Diet of 1847), to transform state and church on the basis of his organic-corporative ideals.
		Though usually dismissed as an inconsistent fantast and a political failure, through his (and his advisers') stubborn insistence on maintaining a powerful monarchy, Frederick William IV played a key role in the process by which Prussia's conservative elites survived the revolution of 1848 and adapted co nstitutional structures to their own ends.
	www.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/dh/fred.htm (999 words)

	William Frederick Rapp
		WILLIAM FREDERICK RAPP, who came to Harvey County nearly forty years ago, has been a pioneer in many things, was one of the first merchants at Hesston, and has been identified with the growth and development of that town from the time it started.
		His grandfather, Frederick William Rapp, was a sturdy German who went to Northern Illinois in pioneer times, and he had a tract of land well cleared and in cultivation when he was accidentally killed by a falling tree.
		William Frederick Rapp was reared on his father's farm and remained there until he was twenty-six years of age.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/bior/rappwf.html (701 words)

	Frederick William II -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		William Halsey was born on Oct. 30, 1882, in Elizabeth, N.J. He graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1904.
		Frederick II was born on Jan. 24, 1712, in Berlin.
		William, as a second son, was not expected to ascend to the throne, and he devoted himself entirely to the army.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9035262?tocId=9035262&query=frederick (811 words)

	AllRefer.com - Frederick William IV (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Frederick William IV 1795–1861, king of Prussia (1840–61), son and successor of Frederick William III.
		Frederick William refused the crown of a united Germany offered him (1849) by the Frankfurt Parliament on the grounds that a monarch by divine right could not receive authority from an elected assembly.
		In 1848, Frederick William briefly supported the revolt in Schleswig-Holstein against Denmark but yielded to British pressure for an armistice.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FredWil4.html (332 words)

	Frederick William III
		Frederick William III, 1770–1840, king of Prussia (1797–1840), son and successor of Frederick William II.
		Louise - Louise, 1776–1810, queen of Prussia, consort of Frederick William III; a princess of...
		Frederick William II - Frederick William II, 1744–97, king of Prussia (1786–97), nephew and successor of...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0819573.html (339 words)

	Frederick William IV. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		A romanticist and a mystic, he conceived vague schemes of reform based on a revival of the medieval structure, with the rule of estates and a patriarchal monarchy.
		Although unwilling to accept the crown from an elected assembly, Frederick William desired German unity under Prussian leadership and presented the Prussian Union plan for a confederation of Prussia and the smaller German states.
		Austrian opposition to the plan forced Frederick William to abandon it in the Treaty of Olmütz (1850).
	www.bartleby.com /65/fr/FredWil4.html (273 words)

	Frederick William IV of Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Frederick William was a staunch RomanticismRomanticist, and his devotion to this movement, which in the German States featured a nostalgia for the Middle Ages, was largely responsible for him developing into a conservative at an early age.
		He did attempt to establish the Erfut Union, a union of German states excluding Austria, soon after, but abandoned the idea by the Punctation of Olmütz on November 29, 1850, in the face of Austrian resistance.
		A stroke in 1857 left the king partially paralyzed and largely mentally incapacitated, and his brother William served as regent from 1858 until the king's death in 1861, at which point he ascended the throne himself as Wilhelm I of GermanyWilliam I/.
	www.infothis.com /find/Frederick_William_IV_of_Prussia (716 words)

	Archive Photos: Frederick William IV@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		King Frederick William IV of Prussia, pictured in his military uniform.
		Ruler from 1840 to 1857, Frederick William IV attempted to uphold absolutist policies, but was forced to concede to a constitution following the Prussian Revolution of 1848.
		Ruler from 1840 to 1857, Frederick William IV attempted to uphold absolutist policies, but...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:30448494&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (146 words)

	Frederick William I
		Frederick II, king of Prussia - Frederick II or Frederick the Great,1712–86, king of Prussia (1740–86), son and...
		Frederick I, king of Prussia - Frederick I, 1657–1713, first king of Prussia (1701–13), elector of Brandenburg...
		Frederick William Mallandaine ASHTON is the Royal Ballet's choreographer.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0819571.html (352 words)

	Frederick William Biography / Biography of Frederick William Biography Biography
		Frederick William (1620-1688) was elector of Brandenburg from 1640 to 1688.
		Born in Berlin on Feb. 16, 1620, Frederick William was the only son of Elector George William and Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate.
		George William died in Königsberg on Dec. 1, 1640, and Frederick William succeeded him.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-frederick-william (240 words)

	John Singer Sargent's Mrs. Frederick William Roller
		Frederick William Roller himself [her husband] was a German immigrant to the UK and was naturalised in 1857.
		Frederick William was the only son of these four.
		What is clear is that the Eytons are a well known Welsh family and for Frederick Roller to have got Eva’s father’s permission to marry her in 1853 (when he was not naturalised as a British citizen) is a sign that he must have been doing well in his business.
	www.jssgallery.org /Paintings/10128.html (1376 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: The Decline of the Holy Roman Empire and the Rise of Prussia
		King Frederick William 1 (1713-1740) made possible the rise of Prussia through his creation of an efficient army and bureaucracy.
		The power of the officials and their independence, in case they were opposed by strong social influences, was increased by the fact that the officials were strangers in the districts in which they were employed, for Frederick William continued the policy of appointing only strangers to the district to official positions....
		This is an exchange between Frederick William I with his 16-year old son, the later Frederick II.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/hre-prussia.html (1625 words)

	California AHGP - Frederick William Mahl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Frederick William Mahl, who has filled the position of mechanical engineer for the Southern Pacific Company since the 15th of February, 1895, and makes his headquarters in Sacramento, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, July 21, 1866.
		His father, William Mahl, was a native of Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany, and in the year 1850 came to America, settling in Louisville, Kentucky.
		Frederick William mahl received his early mental training as a public school student in Louisville, Kentucky, and he attended the Stevens high school at Hoboken, New Jersey.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ca/state1/biographies/fwmahl.html (512 words)

	Frederick William Hagemeister
		FREDERICK WILLIAM HAGEMEISTER, a county commissioner and a farmer in Rooks County, has an enviable record and status among the progressive, earnest, industrious citizens of this section of Kansas.
		His father, William Hagemeister, is one of the most highly respected citizens of the county.
		William Hagemeister was born in Lippe-Detmold, Germany, February 15, 1843, and came to the United States in 1866.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1919ks/h/hagemefw.html (578 words)

	Frederick William IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Frederick William IV succeeded his father in late 1840.
		Frederick William IV was not a very bold human being, and is characterized by not commanding respect among Germans.
		He resigned in 1850 temporarily (later permenantly) on account of his deteriorating mental condition, and died on Jan 2, 1861.
	www.trincoll.edu /~gstevens/frederick_william_iv.htm (119 words)

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