Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I te tīmatanga o te tekau tau 1670, i tautoko a Frederick William i ngā whakamātau a Imperial ki te whakahoki mai i a Alsace, me te whakahē i te whakawhānui o Louis XIV o Wīwī. I whakaekehia e nga hoia Huitene a Brandenburg i te tau 1674 i te wa e noho ana te nuinga o nga ope o te pooti i nga waahi hotoke o Franconia. I te tau 1675, ka haere a Frederick William me ana hoia ki te raki, ka karapoti i nga hoia a Wrangel. I tutuki i te kaitono tana wikitoria nui i te Pakanga o Fehrbellin
Ahakoa he pakanga iti noa iho, i rongonui ai te ope taua o Brandenburg-Prussian, a i tapaina a Frederick William ko "te Kaitohutohu Nui". I muri Sweden whakaekea Prussia i roto i te mutunga o 1678, peia nga ope o Frederick William te Swedish kaiwhakakapi i roto i te "Great Sleigh Drive" o 1678<unk>79; Thomas Carlyle whakaritea te retreat hotoke Swedish ki taua o Napoleon i Moscow.