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I applied my mind to the death of the Emperor, the last Habsburg ruler; he had left his daughter with a contested inheritance, and Caesar’s throne was free. (...) If one adds to all these inducements the attraction of my strong and mobile army, well-ordered finances, the great assets with which the crown treasury was filled (and perhaps also the desire to make a name for myself), then one knows all the reasons I had for declaring war on Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia.

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Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1746, looking back on his motives for invading Silesia

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