But, in the third or fourth generation after tannenberg, there began to rise murmurs,-in the Holy Roman Empire first of all.
"History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) Frederick The Great--The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg--1412-1718"
Thomas Carlyle
One thing not suspected by the Teutsch Ritters, and least of all by their young Hochmeister, was, That the Teutsch Ritters had well deserved that terrible down-come at tannenberg, that ignominious dismissal out of West-Preussen with kicks.
"History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) Frederick The Great--The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg--1412-1718"
Thomas Carlyle
As to King Sigismund, he was patient with it to a degree; made the friendliest paternal professions;-testifying withal, That the claim was undeniable; and could by him, Sigismund, never be foregone with the least shadow of honor, and of course never would: "My dear Nephew can consider whether his dissolute, vain-minded, half-heretical Ritterdom, nay whether this Prussian fraction of it, is in a condition to take Poland by the beard in an unjust quarrel; or can hope to do tannenberg over again in the reverse way, by Beelzehub's help?"
"History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) Frederick The Great--The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg--1412-1718"
Thomas Carlyle