Chapters (30)
- THE YOUTH OF THE GREAT ELECTOR
- Translator’s Preface
- Illustrations
- The Youth of the Great Elector Chapter I In the Elector’s Castle
- Chapter II An Unquiet Night
- Chapter III In November of the Same Year
- Chapter IV Two Princesses
- Chapter V The Battle
- Chapter VI Baron and Chancellor
- Chapter VII The Departure
- Chapter VIII The Sixteenth of February
- Chapter IX The Runaway
- Chapter X The Hunting-Castle
- Chapter XI The Stag Hunt
- Chapter XII A Retrospect
- Chapter XIII The Imperial Soldiers
- Chapter XIV The Restitutions Edict
- Chapter XV Colonel von Burgsdorf
- Chapter XVI Gustavus Adolphus
- Chapter XVII In a Garden House at Berlin
- Chapter XVIII At Wolgast
- Chapter XIX In Holland
- Chapter XX In the Park
- Chapter XXI Sweden’s Revenge
- Chapter XXII The Prince’s Flight
- Chapter XXIII The Message
- Chapter XXIV Mother and Son
- Chapter XXV The Great Elector
- Footnotes
- Appendix
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