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Sin is not a modern invention. And just because a great military tactician was homosexual it doesn't somehow convey legitimacy upon his perverted sexual predelictions.But Yo @Zer Speaking of Greats, has nobody heard of Frederick? Dude was a fucking all-time great cap peeler. <Lmaoo>
Napoleon Bonaparte saw the Prussian King as the greatest tactical genius of all time;[97] after Napoleon's victory of the Fourth Coalition in 1807, he visited Frederick's tomb in Potsdam and remarked to his officers, "Gentlemen, if this man were still alive I would not be here".[98] Napoleon frequently "pored through Frederick's campaign narratives and had a statuette of him placed in his personal cabinet."[99]
Most modern biographers agree that Frederick was primarily homosexual and that his sexuality was central to his life and character.[157][158][159][160][161] After a lowering defeat on the battlefield, Frederick wrote: "Fortune has it in for me; she is a woman, and I am not that way inclined."[162]
At age 16, Frederick seems to have embarked upon a youthful affair with Peter Karl Christoph von Keith, a 17-year-old page of his father. Rumors of the liaison spread in the court and the "intimacy" between the two boys provoked the condemnation of even his elder and favorite sister, Wilhelmine,[15] who wrote, "Though I had noticed that he was on more familiar terms with this page than was proper in his position, I did not know how intimate the friendship was."[14]
Frederick certainly spent much of his time at Sanssouci, his favourite residence in Potsdam, in a circle that was exclusively male, though a number of his entourage were married.[174][175] The palace gardens include a Temple of Friendship (built as a memorial to Wilhelmine), which celebrate the homoerotic attachments of Greek Antiquity, and which is decorated with portraits of Orestes and Pylades, amongst others.[176]
Orestes and Pylades:
In the 1750s Voltaire began writing his Mémoires.[179] The manuscript was stolen and a pirate copy was published in Amsterdam in 1784 as The Private Life of the King of Prussia.[180] In it, Voltaire explicitly detailed Frederick's homosexuality and the circle surrounding him.
But check it:
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730–94), was a Prussian and later an American military officer. He served as Inspector General and a Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, as well as General George Washington's chief of staff. He is credited with being one of the fathers of the Continental Army in teaching them the essentials of military drills, tactics, and disciplines.[1] He wrote Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, the book that served as the standard United States drill manual until the War of 1812.[2]
On the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin, Washington brought in Von Steuben, who had been an officer on the German General staff but fled the country when he was threatened with prosecution for homosexuality. He joined Washington's army at Valley Forge in February 1778 and became a Senior Advisor. Despite rumors about sexual behavior, there never was an investigation of von Steuben and he received a Congressional pension after the war.[127][128]
