>personally leads his troops on the front lines in the age of artillery and grapeshot >gets shot multiple times but keeps doing it anyway Wtf was wrong with him?
>They do what they do not out of shamelessness but out of confidence, courage and manliness, and they embrace that which is like themselves. And there is good evidence for this in the fact that only males of this type, when they are grown up, prove to be the real men in politics.Aristophanes (Symposium 191e-192c)
>>18539383Friedrich II. saw himself as the First Servant of the State and thus got personally involved in all stately matters. And as he was still quite young when during the First Silesian War (29) his presence inspired the soldiers. Leading from the front then became habitual for him.
His actually documented final words were not the often touted quote about being tired of ruling over slaves but rather>As he neared his final hours around midnight, Frederick noticed one of his beloved Italian greyhounds shivering on a chair next to him. Fond of his dogs to the very end, he whispered his final recorded sentence to his valet:>"Throw a quilt over him.">He lost consciousness shortly after and passed away at 2:20 AM.
