Frederick the Great's Invasion of Saxony, and the Prussian 'Mémoire Raisonné,' 1756 Author(s): Arthur R. Ropes Source: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol. 5 (1891), pp. 157-175 Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Royal Historical Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3678050 Accessed: 26-06-2016 09:46 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Cambridge University Press, Royal Historical Society are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Transactions of the Royal Historical Society This content downloaded from 128.205.114.91 on Sun, 26 Jun 2016 09:46:52 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms I57 FREDERICK THE GREAT'S INVASION OF SAXONY, AND THE PRUSSIAN 'MEMOIRE RAISONNE,' I756. By ARTHUR R. ROPES, M.A., F.R.Hist.S. IN a previous paper which I read some years ago before the Society I declared my intention of discussing the reasons for which Frederick the Great made his famous attack on Saxony in 1756-an attack which roused half Europe against him, and brought him within a hair's-breadth of ruin, but of which he never seems to have repented.