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	Frederick William II of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 was a man of singularly handsome presence, not without mental qualities of a high order; he was devoted to the arts - Beethoven and Mozart enjoyed his patronage and his private orchestra had a Europe-wide reputation.
		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.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_William_II_of_Prussia (1317 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)

	Encyclopedia: Frederick William II of Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Frederick William II (September 25, 1744 – November 16, 1797), king of Prussia, was known in German as Friedrich Wilhelm II.
		Frederick II of Prussia (January 24, 1712–August 17, 1786) was a king of Prussia from the Hohenzollern dynasty, reigning from 1740–86.
		Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851) was the son of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Frederick-William-II-of-Prussia (3380 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.
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	FREDERICK WILLIAM IV. - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK WILLIAM IV. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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 III. OF PRUSSIA - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK WILLIAM III. OF PRUSSIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		That during and after the settlement of 1815 Frederick William played a very secondary part in European affairs is explicable as well by his character as by the absorbing character of the internal problems of Prussia.
		The revolutions of 1830 strengthened Frederick William in his reactionary tendencies; the question of the constitution was indefinitely shelved; and in 1831 Prussian troops concentrated on the frontier helped the task of the Russians in reducing the military rising in Poland.
		Yet, in spite of all, Frederick William was beloved by his subjects, who valued him for the simplicity of his manners, the goodness of his heart and the memories of the dark days after 1806.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FREDERICK_WILLIAM_III_OF_PRUSSIA.htm (939 words)

	FREDERICK WILLIAM II. OF PRUSSIA - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK WILLIAM II. OF PRUSSIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		(1744-1797), king of Prussia, son of Augustus William, second son of King Frederick William I. and of Louise Amalie of Brunswick, sister of the wife of Frederick the Great, was born at Berlin on the 2 5th of September 1744, and became heir to the throne on his fathers death in 1757.
		In 1781 Frederick William, then prince of Prussia, inclined, like many sensual natures, to mysticism, had joined the Rosicrucians, and had fallen under the influence of Johann Christof Wollner (1732-1800), and by him the royal policy was inspired.
		Frederick William, who had no taste for military matters, put his authority as War-Lord into commission under a supreme college of war (Oberkricgs-Collegium) under the duke of Brunswick and General von Mollendorf.
	45.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FREDERICK_WILLIAM_II_OF_PRUSSIA.htm (1218 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...
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	NINETEENTH GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Frederick William III of PRUSSIA King of Prussia was born in 1770 in Prussia - son of Frederick William II.
		Alexandrine of HOHENZOLLERN was born in Germany - dtr of Frederick William III.
		Louise of HOHENZOLLERN was born in Germany - dtr of Frederick William III.
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	FREDERICK WILLIAM III OF PRUSSIA FACTS AND INFORMATION
		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.
		On October_14, 1806, at the Battle_of_Jena-AuerstÃ¤dt, the French defeated the Prussian army led by Frederick William, and the Prussian army collapsed.
		At the Congress_of_Vienna, Frederick William's ministers succeeded in securing important territorial increases for Prussia, although they failed to obtain the annexation of all of Saxony, as they had wished.
	www.witwib.com /Frederick_William_III_of_Prussia (649 words)

	Frederick William III of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Exhibitions
		In a portrait specially commissioned by Nicholas I for the War Gallery of 1812 in the Winter Palace, Frederick William III is depicted in the uniform of a Prussian general with the orders of St George, 4th Class (Russia), the Iron Cross, the Black Eagle (Prussia) and Maria Theresa (Austria).
		Frederick William III (1770-1840) was King of Prussia from 1797.
		Frederick William took part in the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15 and regained the Prussian Rhineland, Westphalia, Poznan and part of Saxony.
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	Frederick William III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Frederick William III, known in German asFriedrich Wilhelm III, reigned as king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840.
		The son of King Frederick William IIof Prussia, Frederick William was born in Potsdam on August 3, 1770, and became Crown Prince in 1786, when his fatherascended the throne.
		At the Congress of Vienna, Frederick William's ministerssucceeded in securing important territorial increases for Prussia, although they failed to obtain the annexation of all of Saxony, as they had wished.
	www.therfcc.org /frederick-william-iii-136177.html (434 words)

	Encyclopedia: Frederick William III of Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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...
		The Congress of Vienna was a conference between ambassadors from the major powers in Europe that was chaired by the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich and held in Vienna, Austria, from October 1, 1814, to June 9, 1815.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Frederick-William-III-of-Prussia (2490 words)

	Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
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	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Napoleon III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Napoleon III (1808-1873), emperor of the French (1852-1870), who revived the Napoleonic empire in the mid-19th century and led France to defeat in...
		Frederick William III (1770-1840), King of Prussia (1797-1840).
		He was the son of Frederick William II, born in Potsdam.
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	Frederick William III of Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		Frederick II the Great A biography of the King of Prussia.
		Frederick the Great's Military Instruction to Generals Regulations in force in Prussia during the Seven Years War.
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	Battle of Jena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the battle, Napoleon smashed the outdated Prussian army inherited from Frederick II the Great, which resulted in the reduction of Prussia to half its former size at the Treaty of Tilsit in July 1807.
		Frederick William III of Prussia prepared for war after signing a secret alliance with Russia in July 1806.
		Frederick William III placed 63,000 men under Duke Charles William Ferdinand at Auerstädt and about 51,000 under Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen on a 15-mile (24-kilometre) front between Weimar and Jena.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/JenaBattle/JenaBattle.html (358 words)

	Antiques Militaria Resources
		Frederick William IV added civil class in 1842 reserved for scholars, men of letters, painters, sculptors, and musicians, which continues to be confered by a private council.
		Established by the Dukes Henry of Anhalt-Koethen, Leopold Frederick of Dessau, Alexander Charles of Bernburg 18.11.1836.
		Renewed by Dukes Frederick of Altenburg, Ernest I of Coburg-Gotha, Bernard of Meiningen 25.12.1833.
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	woodgate - pafg67 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Frederick William III King of Prussia [Parents] was born in 1770 in Potsdam,Germany.
		Frederick William II King of Prussia [Parents] was born on 25 Sep 1744 in Berlin.
		She married Frederick William II King of Prussia on 14 Jul 1769 in Charlottenburg.
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	Frederick William, III Biography / Biography of Frederick William, III Biography Biography
		Frederick William III (1770-1840) was king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840.
		Born in Potsdam on Aug. 3, 1770, Frederick William III succeeded his father, Frederick William II, as king of Prussia in 1797.
		Frederick William III died in Berlin on June 7, 1840.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-frederick-william-iii (511 words)

	Frederick William III of Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On October 14 1806 at the Battle of Jena -Auerstädt the French defeated the Prussian army by Frederick William and the Prussian army The royal family fled to East Prussia where they fell on the mercy Emperor Alexander I of Russia (who rumour has it had fallen love with Queen Louise).
		At the Congress of Vienna Frederick William's ministers succeeded in securing territorial increases for Prussia although they failed obtain the annexation of all of Saxony as they had wished.
		Following the Frederick William turned towards political reaction abandoning promises he had made in 1813 to Prussia with a constitution.
	www.freeglossary.com /Frederick_William_III_of_Prussia (755 words)

	Frederick William IV of Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	Frederick William IV on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		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.
		In 1848, Frederick William briefly supported the revolt in Schleswig-Holstein against Denmark but yielded to British pressure for an armistice.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/f/fredw1il4.asp (352 words)

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