HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Madame De Pompadour, Diplomatic Revolution
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Prussia had the best trained solders in all of europe, volatile unstable recruit to the order. Source of potential trouble of instability in the future but still had a good army this one factor all european diplomats had to take into account. Objective and subjective factors subjective : willingness of individual states to act in a restrained fashion. Seemed to be evident and productive. objective input to the existing order : military stalemate, well trained reasonably equipped highly established military. Sept 1765 : the anglo- russian subsidy treaty 100,000 /year, enable force and to assist britain into protecting hanover. Which was the german possession and was vulnerable. France had a similar interest into the approach of . Most countries in europe were consolidated countries but prussia was considered as unfinished". Frederik the great was afraid of the vulnerability of its states. Another was the rise of russian power as russia was able to settle their domestic succession by 1714.
