War of the Austrian Succession begins
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- On War pp. 73-76 · open book
he announces that he will avoid in this work examples antedating the War of the Austrian Succession, the beginning of which in 1740 coincides with the beginning of the First Si- lesian War and, more significantly, the accession of Frederick II, later “the Great,” to the throne of Prussia. Thus, one finds throughout On War hardly more than mention of another undoubted genius of war, the Duke of Marlborough, and of his talented colleague, Prince Eugene of Savoy, who collaborated in the brilliant campaign that ended with Blen- heim only thirty-six years before Frederick’s accession. Thus, Clausewitz, who as Peter Paret points out wrote also a study on Gustavus Adolphus, confines himself in this work, with but rare excep- tions, to historical examples deriving from the seventy-five years ending with Waterloo, which was the last battle he knew and which occurred sixteen years before his death. He dwells on the extraordinarily signifi- cant changes in the art of war that occurred during that period, and we cannot help observing that those changes have to be compared to those which have occurred since because of the vast technological revolution 5
- Diplomacy whole source · open book
The first was the War of the Austrian Succession, from 1740 to 1748.
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