biography
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Augustus II
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known as Augustus the Strong
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| lived:
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| biography:
| King of Poland (1697–1706, 1710–33) and elector of Saxony, born in Dresden, E Germany (formerly Saxony). He succeeded to the electorship as Frederick Augustus I in 1694, and became a Roman Catholic in order to secure his election to the Polish throne as Augustus II in 1697. In alliance with Peter the Great of Russia and Frederik IV of Denmark, he planned the partition of Sweden, invading Livonia in 1699. Defeated by Charles XII of Sweden, he was deposed in 1706 and replaced by Stanislaus Leszczynski. After the defeat of the Swedes by Peter the Great at Poltava (1709), he recovered the Polish throne. |
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