ABSTRACT
Frederick's labours to make good the ravages of war have been given the general title the Retablissement. This labour was continued by Frederick after the Seven Years War, and the rustications and the pediments indicate that Old Fritz was striving after something dignified and impressive. The Silesian manoeuvres rival the campaigns of the Seven Years War as a source of anecdote. There were the blistering messages addressed to individuals as august as old Tauentzien, the inspector of the Silesian fantry. The old hussar colonel Charles-Emanuel von Warnery had been banished from active service in 1758, but it is more than possible that his astringent comments represented at second hand the opinions of Seydlitz, his friend and neighbour in Silesia. This book was probably known to most of the intending military pilgrims to Prussia in the later years of the reign, and it became the subject of intense debate within Frederick's dominions.
