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Glimpses of Early Prussianism.
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The article highlights the political and social condition of Prussia from the perspective of an American colonist Francis Dana. The summer of 1781 found Prussia at profound peace surrounded by a "world in arms." Prussia, under her greatest ruler, seized this moment to establish the plans for a new world empire to be founded on iron autocracy and efficiency at home and thorough subjugation abroad. Dana's journal uncovers every detail of Prussian militarism during the rule of Frederick the Great. A small part of Frederick's army, he says, consisted of foreigners; the rest consisted of the natives, every family, has all its males enrolled in the army.
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