BOOK III

Stanislas Leczinski chosen King of Poland--Death of the Cardinal-Primate--Great retreat of General Schullemburg--Exploits of the Czar--Foundation of Petersburg--Charles’s entry into Saxony--The peace of Altranstadt--Augustus abdicates in favour of Stanislas--General Patkul, the Czar’s plenipotentiary, is broken on the wheel, and quartered--Charles receives the ambassadors of foreign princes in Saxony--He also goes to Dresden to see Augustus before his departure. 97

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