The Royal Prussian Army served as the army of the Kingdom of Prussia. It became vital to the development of Prussia as a European political and military power and within Germany.
Attack of Prussian Infantry, 4 June 1745, by Carl Röchling
Frederick William, the Great Elector
Brandenburg troops of the infantry regiment of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau in 1698, by Richard Knötel
Frederick William I, the Soldier-King, painting by Samuel Theodor Gericke
Frederick II was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until his death in 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia f
Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia (1763)
Frederick as a child, attributed to Antoine Pesne, c. 1715–20
Portrait of 24-year-old Frederick as the crown prince of Prussia by Antoine Pesne (1736, Huis Doorn, Netherlands)
Frederick's marriage to Elisabeth Christine at Schloss Salzdahlum by J. G. Schmidt [de] (1733)