Frederick the Great prickle maker signed on 21st May 1420

signed on 21st May 1420

Agriculture looks at the horizon in the hope of spotting good weather to come

'The Undertones' l-r John O'Neill

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Frederick the Great prickle maker signed on 21st May 1420Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, 18th century (1913). Frederick II (1712 1786) ruled Prussia from 1740. He enlarged Prussian territory by acquiring Silesia from Austria in the War of the Austrian Succession and from the partiton of Poland. He was regarded as an enlightened monarch, promoting religious tolerance, modernising the bureaucracy and civil service and patronising the work of writers and philosophers such as Voltaire and Kant. From A