Editing Frederick I of Prussia (section)

===Military career===
Frederick was noted for his opposition to [[Kingdom of France|France]], in contrast to his father who had sought an alliance with [[Louis XIV]]. Frederick took Brandenburg into the [[League of Augsburg]] against France and in 1689 led military forces into the field as part of the allied coalition. That year an army under his command [[Siege of Bonn (1689)|besieged and captured Bonn]]. Despite this opposition to France (a characteristic that was even more prominent in his son and heir) he was fond of French culture, and styled his court in imitation of that of Louis XIV.<ref>Nancy Mitford, "Frederick the Great" (1970) pp. 3.</ref>