The life of Baron Frederic Trenck : containing his adventures; his cruel and excessive sufferings, during ten years imprisonment, at the fortress of Magdeburg, by command of the late King of Prussia; also, anecdotes historical, political and personal. Translated from the German, by Thomas Holcroft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trenck, Friedrich, Freiherr von der, 1726-1794.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trenck, Friedrich, Freiherr von der, 1726-1794.

Trenck, Friedrich.

Nobility--Germany--Prussia--Biography.

Nobility.

Soldiers--German7--Prussia--Germany--Biography.

Soldiers.

Germany--Prussia.

Nobility--Germany--Prussia--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Germany--History--1740-1806.

Germany.

History.

Austria--History--Maria Theresa, 1740-1780.

Austria.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

417 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

Printed at Boston : By J. Belknap and A. Young, for B. Guild, J. Boyle, B. Larkin, D. West, and E. Larkin, Jun. Sold at their respective bookstores, and by the printers, at their office in State-Street, MDCCXCII. [1792]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Error in paging: p. 174 misnumbered 274.

Frontispiece portrait of Trenck engraved by Samuel Hill.

"Anecdotes of the life of Alexander Schell, who, an officer of the guard, in Glatz, delivered me from prison, on the 26th of December, 1746, and deserted in my company. Written as a supplement to my own history."--p. [383]-401.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Evans, 24861

English Short Title Catalog, W13609.

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