God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 1. The Origins to 1795
362 SOBIESKI it promised to offset the manoeuvres of the Habsburg faction in the Republic's internal affairs; and it opened the ...
TERROR OF THE TURK 363 in person. The official document was antedated to 31 March to avoid the stigma of April Fool's Day.^7 Vie ...
364 SOBIESKI see. Tomorrow, God willing, I shall join with the Palatine of Volhynia, and, the follow- ing day, with the Duke of ...
TERROR OF THE TURK^365 huge white expanse of the Grand Vizier's tent, and ordered him to ride straight for that. At half-past fi ...
366 SOBIESKI two nights anyone who cares has been dismantling them, but I warrant they will not pull them down in a week. They l ...
TERROR OF THE TURK 367 God conquered.) Then he rode off in pursuit. After an initial rebuff on 7 October, the Turkish rearguard ...
368 SOBIESKI Kazimierz Jan Sapieha deliberately delayed the march of the Lithuanian army, and arrived in Austria after Vienna wa ...
TERROR OF THE TURK 369 replied indifferently: 'They don't want to listen to me when I'm alive, so why should they obey my wishes ...
370 SOBIESKI Edward married well. His son, also Charles Edward Stuart (1824-81), and his grandson, Alfred Edward Charles von Pla ...
17 WETTIN: The Saxon Era (1697-1763) The sixty-six years which separate the reign of John Sobieski from that of Stanislaw-August ...
372 WETTIN they could maintain their separate interests. As constitutionalists, they could hope to control a foreign monarch bet ...
Map 20. Saxony—Poland (c. 1750) ...
374 WETTIN Yet, unlike his spermatozoa, most of the political ventures of Augustus the Strong failed to reach their target. In t ...
THE SAXON ERA 375 the Republic from north to south, occupying Wilno, Warsaw, and Cracow. After breaking the Polish cavalry in th ...
Map 21. International Wars in the Eighteenth Century ...
THE SAXON ERA 377 position of dependence, had been completed within five or six years of his orig- inal election. The second sta ...
378 WETTIN demands. Political factions rose or fell not merely in relation to popular support in Poland, but principally in resp ...
THE SAXON ERA 379 panstewko, his own 'state within the state'. He maintained his own clientele of nobles who defended his intere ...
380 WETTIN neighbouring states. At the accession of the Wettins, the Army of the Republic was roughly equivalent to those of its ...
THE SAXON ERA 381 prevailing political circumstances. The Republic resigned itself to an extended association with Saxony. Saxon ...
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