The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1

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Again my blood boils, again my tears roll down my cheeks, when I remember thee, thy sufferings in my cause, and thy untimely end! I knew it not; I sought to thank thee; I found thee in the grave; I would have made retribution to thy children, but unjust, iron-hearted princes had deprived me of the power. Can the virtuous heart conceive affliction more cruel? My own ills I would have endured with magnanimity; but thine are wrongs I have neither the power to forget nor heal.

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The Chignecto Isthmus and its first settlers Howard Trueman. Marse Henry Volume 2 Henry Watterson. Marse Henry Volume 1 Henry Watterson. Robert added it Jul 07, There are no discussion topics on this book yet. About Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck. Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck. Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck 16 February — 25 July was a Prussian officer, adventurer, and author.

Friedrich's Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck 16 February — 25 July was a Prussian officer, adventurer, and author.

In November of he became a cadet in Frederick the Great's garde de corps and six weeks later was given the commission of Cornet. Unfortunately for Friedrich, his first cousin Baron Franz von der Trenck, who was on the side of Austria, nearly captured Frederick the Great and returned his cousin's horses that had been taken by an Austrian officer. Rumors spread that Friedrich was an Austrian spy and after it was learned that he was Franz von Trenck's sole heir, the rumors were impossible to silence.

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The king ordered that Friedrich had to sit on his own gravestone. Then, in , he obtained an employment as Rittmeister of an imperial cuirassier regiment in Hungary. He traveled to Russia where he, or so he claimed, became gentleman of the bed chamber in the court of Tsarina Elizabeth of Russia. He fell in love with a married woman, whose name he never revealed. In , he went to Danzig for the funeral of his mother, but was again captured on the orders of Frederick II and was sent to the Citadel Magdeburg in Magdeburg.

To prevent him from attempting to escape, they fastened his hands, feet, and body with heavy chains and manacles.

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In , he was released through the intervention of Empress Maria Theresa. During the next ten years, von der Trenck led an active life. He busied himself in writing literature, running a wine trading business, and travelling to England and France.

Translated from the German original, by an officer of the Royal Artillery became popular reading in the late 18th century. In December of he married Maria Elisabeth de Broe zu Dipenbendt, who bore him fourteen children. The Austrians also granted him a pension. By the order of Austria, von der Trenck was sent as an observer of the events of the French Revolution to Paris, where he was accused as a spy and executed by the guillotine on 25 July , two days before the fall of Robespierre and the end of The Terror.

The son of Friedrich von der Trenck, the Austrian Lieutenant Field Marschall Karl Albrecht's von der Trenck, inherited the title of Count, a title which the King of Prussia had awarded his father after his father's death.


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When Karl died the title was inherited by his brother's son Leopold von der Trenck.