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	Augustus II of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Augustus II, nicknamed "the Strong" (May 12, 1670–February 1, 1733; (Polish: August II Mocny; German: August II der Starke) was Elector of Saxony (where he was known as Frederick Augustus I) from 1694 to 1733 and King of Poland from 1697 to 1704 and again from 1709 to 1733.
		Born in Dresden in Saxony, Frederick Augustus was the son of John George III and Princess Anne Sophie of Denmark.
		Although this figure would be extremely difficult to verify, Augustus II did father a very large number of illegitimate children, the most famous of whom was Maurice, comte de Saxe (his son by Aurora von Königsmarck), the brilliant French military commander.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/August_II_of_Poland (870 words)

	Augustus II of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Born in Dresden in Saxony, Frederick Augustus was the son of John George III and.
		Poland's reward was to be the Swedish territory of Livonia.
		Although this figure would be extremely difficult to verify, Augustus II did father a very large number of illegitimate children, the most famous of whom was Maurice, comte de Saxe (his son by), the brilliant French military commander.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Augustus_II_of_Poland (892 words)

	August II of Poland
		August II (also called Augustus II the Strong or August II Mocny) was born on May 12, 1670 to John George III Wettin, elector of Saxony and Anne Sophie of Denmark.
		Following the death of the Polish king John III Sobieski, from 1697-1704 and from 1709-1733 he was the king of Poland as August II of Poland.
		August II was called August the Strong for his bearlike strength and also for his supposedly numerous offspring.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/au/August_II_of_Poland.html (201 words)

	Sigismund II of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sigismund II Augustus (1520-1572), Polish: Zygmunt II August, was the only son of Sigismund I the Old., King of Poland, whom he succeeded in 1548, and Bona Sforza.
		A far less imposing figure than his father, the elegant and refined Sigismund II was nevertheless an even greater statesman than the stern and majestic Sigismund I.
		Sigismund II died at his beloved Knyszyn on July 6, 1572, at the age of 52.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Sigismund_II_of_Poland (849 words)

	Stanislaus II Augustus Poniatowski, King of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He was the son of Stanislaw Poniatowski, Castellan of Kraków, and brother of Michal Jerzy Poniatowski, primate of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland.
		He protested the first partition of Poland (1772); but being powerless to do anything about it, and in the face of implacable opposition from Polish magnates, he was obliged to place his reliance in Russia's German ambassador,.
		He was accused by some of striving for absolutism, of doing away with the liberties of the szlachta (Polish nobility), of desiring the downfall of the Roman Catholic Church; by others, of weakness and subservience, even of treason, especially after he had joined the Targowica Confederation.
	www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Stanislaus_II_of_Poland (971 words)

	Wladislaus II of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Jagiellonian era is usually characterised as the start of Poland's "golden age", and saw the country become a major European power and extend its frontiers to the north and east.
		Before that the Piasts were monarchs of Poland, in last century intermitting with the Bohemian Przemysls and followed by a brief period of Angevins.
		Jagiello was married in 1385 to Queen Jadwiga of Poland (1374-1399).
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Wladyslaw_II_Jagiello (1203 words)

	August II of Poland
		King August II The Strong (Polish August II Mocny) (May 12, 1670 - February 1, 1733) was an influential Polish nobleman and monarch.
		Born in Dresden, Saxony, August was born to John George III Wettin and Anne Sophie of Denmark.
		Although this figure would be extremely difficult to verify, August II did sire a very large number of illegitimate children, the most famous of which was Maurice de Saxe (with Aurora von Königsmarck), the brilliant French military commander.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/august_ii_of_poland (440 words)

	Courtly Lives - Augustus II Elector of Saxony and King of Poland
		Augustus II (1670-1733) was called "Augustus the Strong," and his family was from the Wettin Dynasty.
		When Augustus II died, in 1733, Stanislaw Leszczynski (1677-1766) was re-elected King of Poland (1733-1736) with the support of France, while Russia and Austria favored Augustus III, son of Augustus II.
		After the death, in 1696, of John III Sobieski, the King of Poland (Augustus) was separated by a wide strip of Austrian and Prussian territory.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/AugustII.html (1177 words)

	Station Information - August III of Poland
		August III Wettin (1696-1763), king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1734-1763), and also elector of Saxony (1733-1763, as Frederick August II)
		He was born in Dresden in 1696 as son August II the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland.
		After his father death he inherited Saxony and was elected king of Poland with support of Russian and Austrian troops.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/a/au/august_iii_of_poland.html (189 words)

	August II of Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		August II the Strong (1670-1733) (Polish: August II Mocny), Elector of Saxony (1694-1733, as Frederick August I), king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1697-170/1706 and 1709-1733).
		As a result of defeats in the war with Sweden and the pro-Swedish party in Poland August had to abdicate in 1706 in favour of Stanislaw Leszczynski.
		One of his sons, August III of Poland, followed him as Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
	usapedia.com /a/august-ii-of-poland.html (323 words)

	stanislaw leszczynski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Born at Lemberg in 1677, was the son of Rafael Leszczynski, governor of Poznan Voivodship, and Anne Catherine Jablonowska.
		Nevertheless, with the assistance of a bribing fund and an army corps the Swedes succeeded in procuring his election by a scratch assembly of half a dozen castellans and a few score of gentlemen (July 2, 1704).
		His son-in-law supported his claims to the Polish throne after the death of Augustus II in 1733, which led to the War of the Polish Succession.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Stanislaw_Leszczynski.html (741 words)

	Polish History - Part 12
		Poland was under occupation by two cruel and totalitarian states.
		Poland's destiny was resolved by the three major powers without the participation of the Poles at the Yalta Conference, held February 4-11, 1945.
		Among all nations, however, Poland lost the highest percentage of her citizens, who fell in the struggle or were murdered as a result of the occupiers' policy of terror--a total of 6.5 million people, including almost all the Jewish Poles.
	www.poloniatoday.com /history12.htm (1239 words)

	August III of Poland
		August II (October 17, 1696 - October 5, 1763), was the son of August II of Poland and succeeded his father in 1733 as Holy Roman Empire Elector of Saxony and as King of Poland.
		He is enumerated as Friedrich August II, Elector of Saxony, and as King August III of Poland.
		On August 20, 1719 he married Marie Josepha, daughter of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor: they had seven children, including a son named Frederick Christian of Saxony
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/au/August_III_of_Poland.html (99 words)

	The Art Of Ancient Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Enlightenment of the second half of the 18th century and the patronage of king Stanislaw August Poniatowski in particular, combined to lay the foundations of native artistic achievements of a truly high European standard.
		Although there was no Poland on the map, there was Polish art which was interesting, full of character and excellent talents.
		Art fulfilled its mission as "a reflection of the universal rallies of the soul, and as a civilising element of the society it emerged from" (Stanislaw Witkiewicz).
	www.polishconsulatela.com /English/Virtual_Tour/art_of_poland.htm (607 words)

	Suwalki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 1835 tsar Nicholas I declined to move the capital of voivodship to Augustów and the fate of Suwałki was sealed.
		By the end of July the Paris Peace Conference granted the city to Poland and Lithuanians withdrew from the city, but some of the Polish-inhabitated lands were left on the Lithuanian side of the border while several Lithuanian villages were left on the Polish side of the so-called Foch Line.
		This led to an outbreak of Sejny Uprising on August 23, 1919.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Suwalki.htm (1981 words)

	Poland - August II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Poland - August II The Crown of August II of Saxony
		As a result a new set had to be made for the coronation of August II in Cracow.
		August was the son of Frederick William I of Prussia who gave him a strict militaristic upbringing.
	www.crownminiatures.com /poland-augustii.html (344 words)

	August II of Poland : Frederick Augustus I of Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		August II of Poland : Frederick Augustus I of Poland
		August II (also called Augustus II the Strong or August II Mocny) was born on May 12, 1670 to III Wettin">John George III Wettin, elector of Saxony and Anne Sophie of Denmark.
		Following the death of the Polish king III Sobieski">John III Sobieski, from 1697-1704 and from 1709-1733 he was the king of Poland as August II of Poland.
	www.city-search.org /fr/frederick-augustus-i-of-poland.html (554 words)

	POLISH HOME ARMY (AK) - HISTORY
		In central Poland, which had been made into a separate administrative entity called the "General-Gouvernment" with its capital in Cracow, organization moved along rapidly and work was carried out successfully as planned.
		The Commander AK and Chief Delegate, in consultation with the Council of National Unity, determined that the capital city of Poland should be freed from the Germans by the action of Polish soldiers.
		August 1, at 5 p.m., units of AK under District Commander Col. Anthony Chrusciel "Monter" attacked the Germans simultaneously in the whole city.
	www.biega.com /museumAK/hak-e.html (3258 words)

	Poland Heads
		Heads of State of Poland (Female suffrage 1918) After being partitioned by Russia, Prussia and Austria the Kingdom ceased to exist in 1795, was re-established as a state in 1918, 1945-89 Socialist one-party state where the Politburo of the Communist party was the supreme power.
		When her husband, Elector Friederich August II von Sachsen or King August II of Poland (16961733-63) was in Poland she functioned as his representative, if not as an official regent in Sachsen.
		Her husband escaped to Poland, but she chose to stay back and organised the defence together with her son, Friederich Christian and his wife, Maria Antonia, and she used her big international network to do her best to save the electorate from total destruction.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /Poland_Heads.htm (791 words)

	August II of Poland - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		August II the Strong (1670-1733) (Polish: August II Mocny), Elector of Saxony (1694-1733, as Frederick August I), king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1697-1704/1706 and 1709-1733).
		English translation: August II, by God's grace King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia (Ukraine), Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Smolensk, Sewierz and, Czernichow, an also hereditary duke of Saxony and prince elector etc.
		Although this figure would be extremely difficult to verify, August II did sire a very large number of illegitimate children, the most famous of which was Maurice de Saxe, the brilliant French military commander.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/August_II_of_Poland (320 words)

	Courtly lives - The Wettin Dynasty
		1 Frederick August II of Poland (reigned 1697-1733) and Saxony (reigned 1709-1733) as Frederick Augustus I. Augustus married Eberhardine (died 1727) of Bradenburg-Bayreuth.
		Marie was the daughter of Karl (VI) or Karoly III of Hungary 1711/Karel II of Cechy 1711-1740.
		3 Albert I (reigned 1909-1934), son of Phillippe and Maria, was the heir of Leopold II.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/Wettin.html (784 words)

	1572 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		August 18 - Wedding in Paris of the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre with Marguerite de France, sister of King Charles, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
		August 24 - Charles de Téligny, French soldier and diplomat (born 1535)
		Sigismund II of Poland, Polish: Zygmunt II August (born 1520)
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1572 (582 words)

	World War II Invasion of Poland
		On September 1st., 1939, 1.8 million German troops invaded Poland on three fronts; East Prussia in the north, Germany in the west and Slovakia in the south.
		Under the German-Soviet pact Poland was divided; the Soviets took, and absorbed into the Soviet Union, the eastern half (Byelorussia and the West Ukraine), the Germans incorporated Pomerania, Posnania and Silesia into the Reich whilst the rest was designated as the General-Gouvernement (a colony ruled from Krakow by Hitler's friend, Hans Frank).
		When the Russians crossed into Poland the Home Army cooperated in the fight against the Germans and contributed greatly to the victories at Lwow, Wilno and Lublin only to find themselves surrounded and disarmed by their "comrades-in-arms" and deported to labour camps in Siberia.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/ww2/ww2-3.htm (1906 words)

	Augustus II (from Poland, history of) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Though he regained Poland's former provinces of Podolia and the Ukraine, his reign marked the beginning of Poland's decline as a European power.
		One of the largest of the countries of eastern Europe, Poland was the first of these countries to liberate its government from the Communist domination endured for 45 years.
		It was the relegalization of the trade union Solidarity and the agreement to hold partially free parliamentary elections that appeared to have opened the floodgates of radical reforms that spilled...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-28196?tocId=28196 (868 words)

	war and social upheaval: World War II -- Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Stalin's repressive measures in Poland, especially the murder of Polish officers in the Katyn Forrest was revealed by the NAZIs in 1942.
		Poland in 1939 was a small country wedged between two giants, that were her bitter enemies--the Soviet Union and NAZI Germany.
		Eventhough Poland was occupied and by the NAZIs and Soviets in the first military operation of the War, substantial Polish forces fought under British and Soviet commands on the western and eastern fronts and made important contributions.
	www.histclo.hispeed.com /essay/war/ww2/cou/pol/ww2-pol.html (3424 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Poland - Reformation and Counterreformation
		Poland's tolerance policy attracted those who were persecuted because of their confession, from the Netherlands, France, Silesia.
		When Poland and Sweden agreed on the border in Livonia, leaving the Daugavpils area in Polish hands (1635, Polish Livonia), it was recatholicized.
		Portrait of King Sigismund Wasa, of Cardinal Georg of Radziwill, Bishop of Cracow, of Archduke Maximilian, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, elected King of Poland, of John of Zamoyski, high chancellor of Poland and commander of the Polish army, of Sigismund August II.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/eceurope/refpol.html (783 words)

	Henry II of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Henry II the Pious, Henryk II Pobożny (b.
		Henry the Pious succeeded his father in 1238 and became the most powerful of the all Polish dukes.
		In 1239 supported the pope in his conflict with emperor Frederick II.
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Henry_II_of_Poland (185 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 11152
		Friedrich August I von Sachsen, King of Poland was the son of Johann Georg III Kurfürst von Sachsen and Anne Sophia Oldenburg, Princess of Denmark.
		Friedrich August II von Sachsen, King of Poland was the son of Friedrich August I von Sachsen, King of Poland and Christine Eberhardine von Brandenburg-Bayreuth.
		She married Friedrich August II von Sachsen, King of Poland, son of Friedrich August I von Sachsen, King of Poland and Christine Eberhardine von Brandenburg-Bayreuth, on 20 August 1719 at Wien.
	www.thepeerage.com /p11152.htm (1392 words)

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