Trenck
FRIEDRICH VON DER, for his adventures and misfortunes; born where the danger was great fortifications built of concrete and of great strength were built up. The simple 17 he was presented to the king, Fredstraight or curving line was in many places transformed into a zigzag or laybrinth pattern, and communicating trenches connected the front trenches with those behind and these again with the forces at the rear. The war took on the character of mutual siege conditions, and this was largely due to the grip on the ground developed by trench work. The single trench line that proved so hard to capture in the Civil War of the United States grew into an elaborate network of trenches deep below the surface and forming part of great plans covering large areas in the rear.
A trench defended by barbed wire proved a difficult position to attack, and the great multiplication of machine guns, which the Germans provided as one of the great surprises of made a position thus doubly protected almost impenetrable. An enormous expenditure of projectiles was found necessary to prepare the way for an attack that might result in the capture of two or three front lines. This it was calculated that preceding one such attack a French battery, near Arras, sent into the German lines more projectiles than the entire German artillery in the war of 1870- BARON, a Prussian officer, celebrated in Königsberg in 1726, and at the age of erick II., as a student who was well worthy the royal patronage. Frederick rapidly advanced him in the army, and manifested much regard for him; but Trenck having won the heart of Princess Amelia, the king's sister, his enemies had him accused and arrested. He was imprisoned in the fortress of Glatz, but contrived to effect his escape. He then visited the N. of Europe, Austria, and Italy. In 1758 he was seized at Danzic and was conveyed to Magdeburg, where, loaded with irons, he was for years incarcerated. On procuring his liberation, in 1763, he withdrew to Vienna, after which he went to Aix-la- Chapelle, where literature, politics, and commerce alternately occupied his attention. At his castle of Zwerbeck, in book read all over Europe. In 1791 he Hungary, he wrote his "Memoirs," a settled in France, joined the Jacobins, and in 1794 was charged with being a secret emissary of the King of Prussia, and died by the guillotine.