History of Prussia

"Frederick the Great allied Prussia with England against France and Austria. The war hit Prussia hard but Frederick managed to survive due to the loyalty and skill of his troops. Prussia drove back, in turn, the French, Austrian and Russian armies. Even without the aid of England in the end, he completed the war by the PEACE OF HUBERTUSBERG (1763) which guaranteed him permanent possession of Silesia. The whole war was settled by the PEACE OF PARIS (1763)."

At the Congress of Vienna (1814–15), which redrew the map of Europe following Napoleon's defeat, Prussia acquired a large section of north western Germany, including the coal-rich Ruhr. The country then grew rapidly in influence economically and politically, and became the core of the North German Confederation in 1867, and then of the German Empire in 1871. The Kingdom of Prussia was now so large and so dominant in the new Germany that Junkers and other Prussian elites identified more and more as Germans and less as Prussians.

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According to the recent sanitary report of the medical staff of the Prussian army, there are daily 45 soldiers sick out of 1,000 men. Out of every 1,000 military patients, 985 are cured.

Imprisonment for debt has been abolished in Prussia.

A single factory in Prussia sends to the army 80,000 cans of preserved meats daily.

"Prussia, prüsh'ya or proo'she-8 (Ger. Preussen, prois' son; Dutch, Pruissen, prois'sen; Fr. Prusse, prüss; £. Prus' sia), a kingdom of Central Europe, and the chief state of the German Empire, comprising the greater part of North Germany. It was formerly composed of two distinct and very unequal portions, separated by Brunswick, Hesse, Waldeck, Lippe, and Nassau; but since the annexation of Lauenburg, Hanover, Electoral Hesse, the territories of Frankfurt and Nassau, and the duchies of Holstein and Sleswick, with portions of Bavaria, and the grand duchy of Hesse, in 1866, it forms one compact territory from 6° to 22° 55' E. and 40° 6' to 55° 55' N. It is bounded S. by France, Bavaria, Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia; W. by the Netherlands and Belgium; N. by Denmark and the Baltic; N.E. and E. by Russia. Its length, E. to W., is about 700 miles; breadth, N. to S., 470 miles. The following are the provinces into which Prussia is divided:"

East Prussia, West Prussia, Berlin (city),...

Prussia, prush'a (Ger. Pretuten, prois'sen), a kingdom of Europe, the chief state of the German Empire, com prising the greater part of northern Germany. It extends (not reckoning the detached little province of Hohenzol- lern) from lat. 49° V to 55° 54' N. and from Ion. 5° 52' to 22° 54' E. The main body of the monarchy is bounded S. by German Lorraine, Bavaria, Hesse, the Thuringian states, the kingdom of Saxony, and Austria-Hungary (mainly Bohemia and Austrian Silesia) ; W. by the Netherlands, Bel gium, and Luxemburg ; N. by the North Sea, Oldenburg, Denmark, Mecklenburg, and the Baltic : and E. by Russia (mainly Poland). In addition, it borders on a number of German states, whose territories are partially or wholly en closed by the Prussian dominions, or which enclose detached fragments of Prussian territory. The greatest extension of the country is from NE. to SW., a line drawn from the town of Memel, on the Baltic, to Saarbrilcken, on the borders of Lorraine, measuring about 750 ...