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FREDERICK’S PEACE TERMS were simple. He had only to state them once, briefly, and adhere to them while Count Kaunitz estimated the cost of another year or two of war, weighed the danger of a Turkish invasion of Hungary, and brought his colleagues and the empress-queen to the point of confessing their failure. Frederick would cede no territory, not even Glatz; but when Austria was ready to concede that point, peace was possible at any time; and Austria had as good reason as Prussia to wish that it be made quickly.
In 1762 Russia and Sweden withdrew from the coalition against Prussia, France opened negotiations with Great Britain, and Austria was too exhausted to carry on the struggle by herself. Chester Easum discusses Frederick’s conduct of the peace talks, and the return of Frederick and Prince Henry, his brother, to Berlin.—Editor.
I am... a stranger here.—Frederick.
I am not in any way attached to anything in Berlin; the memory of the past is very painful to me, and the life that one leads there [now] seems quite insipid.—Henry to Frederick.
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Easum, C.V. (1972). Return from the Seven Years’ War. In: Paret, P. (eds) Frederick the Great. World Profiles. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01476-7_2
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