Voltaire's history of Charles XII, king of Sweden · Voltaire
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Augustus, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, 17,19, 20; concludes treaty with Peter the Great against Sweden, 34; besieges Riga, 46; meeting with Peter the Great at Brizen, 58; intrigues against, by opposing parties, 70-72; forced to flee, 77; endeavours to collect troops, 78, 79; his army defeated at Clissau, 81; at Pultask, 85; withdraws to Thorn, 85; is declared by the Assembly incapable of wearing the crown, 90; his narrow escape of being captured, 91; advances on Warsaw, 101; victorious entry into, 102; finally forced to retreat from Poland, 106; is sent for by Peter the Great to conference at Grodno, 113; arrests Patkul, _ib._; shut up in Cracow, the last town left him, 117; writes to Charles XII asking for peace, 120; his victory over the Swedes, 123; enters Warsaw in triumph, _ib._; accepts Charles XII’s terms of peace, 124; his meeting with, at Gutersdorf, 124, 125; is forced to write a letter of congratulation to Stanislas, 125, 126; and to give up his prisoners, 126; returns to Poland after battle of Pultawa, 200; his embassy to the Sultan, 239; insists on Charles XII being sent away, 241; his restoration to the Crown of Poland, 294; his people force him to submit to the Pacta Conventa, 294 Azov, surrendered to the Porte, 224, 235 Baltagi Mahomet, Pasha of Syria, made Grand Vizir, 210; has orders to attack the Russians, 211; his answer to the Czar’s letter suing for peace, 222, 223; his terms, 223, 224; concludes a treaty of peace with the Czar, 224, 225; his efforts to force Charles XII to depart from Bender, 229, 230; cuts off the king’s supplies, 231; Poniatowski plots against him, 232; his lieutenant is executed and he himself exiled, 233; his death, _ib._
Bender, Governor of, handsome reception of Charles XII by, 183 Borysthenes, escape of Charles XII and his troops to, after Pultawa, 175, 176; troops drowned while attempting to cross, 177 Calish, victory at, 122, 123; Peter the Great’s commemoration of, 133 Calmouks, their country, 154; detachment of, in Russian army, Charles XII’s narrow escape from, 154, 155 Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia, forgets benefits received from the Porte, and makes treaty with the Czar, 216 Catherine, wife of Peter the Great, her early history, 220-222; persuades the Czar to sue the Grand Vizir for peace, 222 Charles XI abolishes the authority of the Senate, 10; his character, _ib._; his marriage, _ib._; death of his wife, 13; his cruelty to her and oppression of the people, _ib._; his death, _ib._
Ukrania, its need of a protector in one of the surrounding States, 156; seeks protection from Poland, _ib._; from Russia, 156, 157 Ulrica Eleanora, Princess, sister of Charles XII, asked to take the Regency in Sweden, 285; refuses to make peace with Denmark and resigns, _ib._; sends account of affairs to her brother, _ib._ Usedom, taken from the Swedes by the Prussians, 303 Valida, Sultana, favours Swedish cause, 211 Villelongue, Monsieur de, his bold action on behalf of Charles XII, 274; presents petition to the Sultan at the risk of his life, 275, 276; has interview with Sultan, _ib._; is released, 277; taken prisoner at siege of Stralsund, 309 Warsaw, Charles XII appears before, 79; battle near, 81; Augustus enters it as a victorious sovereign, 102; coronation of Stanislas in, 109; entered in triumph by Augustus, 123 Winter of 1709, memorable, 163; Charles XII loses 2,000 men on one march, _ib._ Wirtemburg, Prince, taken prisoner at Pultawa, 173 Zaporavians, description of, 166 Zobor, Count, Emperor’s chamberlain, his quarrel with Swedish ambassador and its results, 138-140 Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. A table of contents has been added by this Transcriber.
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