AUGUSTUS II

1670–1733, king of Poland (1697–1733) and, as Frederick Augustus I, elector of Saxony (1694–1733). He commanded the imperial army against the Turks (1695–96), but had no success and was replaced by Prince Eugene of Savoy as soon as he competed for the Polish throne, left vacant by the death of John III. By becoming a Catholic and granting the Polish nobility unprecedented privileges he was elected king with the support of the Holy Roman emperor and the pope. With help from Patkul, Augustus allied himself (1699) with Peter I of Russia and Frederick IV of Denmark for an attack on young Charles XII of Sweden. In the resulting conflict (see Northern War) Augustus invaded Livonia with his Saxon troops but was defeated (1702) by Charles XII. The Treaty of Altranstädt (1706) forced him to renounce the Polish crown in favor of Stanislaus I and to give up his alliance with Russia. After Charles's defeat by the Russians at Poltava (1709), Augustus revived the alliance and recovered Poland. In Poland, where he kept a Saxon force, Augustus was highly unpopular. After his death, the ascension of his son and successor in Saxony, Augustus III, to the Polish throne was unsuccessfully contested by Stanislaus I, who was backed by France. Among Augustus's many mistresses was Maria Aurora Königsmark; her son, Maurice de Saxe, was one of Augustus's innumerable illegitimate offspring. A patron of the arts, Augustus greatly embellished Dresden and created the Meissen china manufactures. He is also called Augustus the Strong.

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Social France at the Time of Philip Augustus
Book by Achille Luchaire, Edward Benjamin Krehbiel; H. Holt, 1912
Subjects: France--History--Philip Ii Augustus, 1180-1223, France--Social Life And Customs
...Cartellieris Philipp II. August, Konig von...history of Philip Augustus was to be given...war between Philip Augustus and Henry II, a brigand, who...mention. CHAPTER II PARISHES AND PRIESTS...the time of Philip Augustus still the most effective...
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Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire
Book by Beth Severy; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: Family--Rome--History, Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D
...Documents Illustrating the Reigns of Augustus and Tiberius , edited by Victor Ehrenberg...Rome: LErma di Bretschneider, 1964. II Inscriptiones Italiae . Fasti et Elogia...Latinae Liberae Rei Publicae , vols. I II, edited by Attilio Degrassi. Rome: Istituto...
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Augustus Caesar
Book by David Shotter; Routledge, 1991
Subjects: Augustus--Emperor Of Rome--63 B.C.-14 A.D, Emperors--Rome--Biography, Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D, Rome--History--Civil War, 43-31 B.C
...D.C.A. (David Colin Arthur) Augustus Caesar.-(Lancaster pamphlets) 1. Roman Empire I. Title II. Series 937.05 Library of Congress...dates in the life and career of Augustus 82 II Provinces and armies in AD 14...
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Augustus
Book by Pat Southern; Routledge, 1998
Subjects: Augustus--Emperor Of Rome--63 B.C.-14 A.D, Emperors--Rome--Biography, Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D
AUGUSTUS AUGUSTUS Pat Southern London and New York First published 1998 by Routledge...4.2 Location and map of the battle of Actium 98 5.1 Augustus as Pharaoh 106 7.1 The Ara Pacis, the sundial, and the...
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Augustus and the Reconstruction of Roman Government and Society
Book by Alban Dewes Winspear, Lenore Kramp Geweke; University of Wisconsin Press, 1935
Subjects: Augustus--Emperor Of Rome--63 B.C.-14 A.D, Rome--Politics And Government--30 B.C.-68 A.D, Rome--Social Conditions
...26 B.C. Imp. Caesar divi f. C. n. Augustus VIII. T. Statilius T. f. Taurus II. 25 B.C. Imp. Caesar divi f. C...Dio Cass. LIII, 16; cf. R. E. s. v. Augustus. 46 Mon. Anc. II , 45=VII, 10: Me Principe. Mon. Anc...
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Brancacci, Aldo, Editor. Antichi E Moderni Nella Filosofia Di ETA Imperiale: Atti del II Colloquio Internazionale, Roma, 21-23 Settembre 2000
Journal article by Riccardo Pozzo; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 57, 2004
Subjects: Antichi e moderni nella filosofia di eta imperiale: Atti del II colloquio internazionale, Roma, 21-23 settembre 2000 (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...Antichi e moderni nella filosofia di eta imperiale: Atti del II colloquio internazionale, Roma, 21-23 settembre 2000. Elenchos...cross the Imperial age, which began with the rise of Octavianus Augustus and ended with the fail of the Roman Empire. While the first...
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Instruments of Identity: Alton Augustus Adams Sr., the Navy Band of the Virgin Islands, and the Sounds of Social Change
Journal article by Mark Clague; Black Music Research Journal, 1998
Subjects: Band music--Social aspects, Conductors (Music)--Biography, Imperialism--Social aspects, Music and society--Analysis, U.S. Virgin Islands--Music
...lower-middle-class urban artisans, Alton Augustus Adams grew up under the colonial...the only ones until World War II (see Floyd 1974). Adams was...programs, held in the Alton Augustus Adams Collection, Center for...level. The story of Alton Augustus Adams and the United States...
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Oliver Hillhouse Prince, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, and the Birth of American Literary Realism(*)
Journal article by David Rachels; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998
Subjects: American literature--History, Realism in literature--History
...121-122; John Donald Wade, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet: A Study...Press, Incorporated, 1974), II, 1095. (9) See Virginia King...editorializing is summarized in Augustus Baldwin Longstreets Georgia...passing. See The Letters of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, ed. James...
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II. Antebellum (1800-1865)
Journal article; The Mississippi Quarterly, 1997
Subjects: Literature--Bibliography, Slaves--Biography, United States history--1783-1865, United States--Race relations
...yet he is committed to living as a Southerner in the Louisiana Swamp. (76.) LONGSTREET, AUGUSTUS BALDWIN Romine, Scott. "Negotiating Community in Augustus Baldwin Longstreets Georgia Scenes." Style, 30 (Spring 1996), 1-27. "Longstreet legitimates...
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"The Little Fuehrer Invades Los Angeles": The Emergence of a Black-Jewish Coalition after World War II
Journal article by David J. Leonard; American Jewish History, Vol. 92, 2004
Subjects: Activists--Works, African American-Jewish relations--Analysis, African American-Jewish relations--History, Jewish literature--Interpretation and construction, Jews--Religious aspects, Jews--Social aspects, Los Angeles, California--Social aspects
...presence in the city. (25) Augustus Hawkins, an African American...the focus away from World War II, denouncing Smith as a threat...Clayton Russell, Charlotta Bass, Augustus Hawkins, Dr. H.C. Hudson, Thomas...a shift away from World War II references to ones elucidating...
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The Princess in the Tower: Alex Sanmark Tells the Strange Tale of the Ill-Fated Marriage of Philip Augustus of France and His Danish Princess at the End of the Twelfth Century
Magazine article by Alex Sanmark; History Today, Vol. 56, February 2006
Subjects: France--History, Isambour, Queen, consort of Philip II, King of France--Behavior, Kings and rulers--Behavior, Kings--Behavior, Philip II, King of France--Behavior, Queens--Behavior, Royalty--History
...PRINCESS INGEBORG of Denmark (1175-1237/8) and King Philip II Augustus of France (1165-1223) were married in August 1193 at...FURTHER READING J.W. Baldwin, The Government of Philip Augustus (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1986); J.A. Brundage, Sex...
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Death of the Emperor Frederick II
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 50, December 2000
Subjects: Frederick II, King of Prussia--Biography
Death of the Emperor Frederick II by Richard Cavendish December 13th, 1250 The most...reality his policy virtually died with him. His claim as Caesar Augustus, Imperator Romanorum, to preeminence over all the princes of Europe...
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Band of Brothers: Stephen Brumwell Examines How the Death of a Charismatic Young British Officer 250 Years Ago This Month-And the Involvement of His Two Younger Brothers in Subsequent Military Operations in North America-Had a Lasting Impact on Anglo-American History
Magazine article by Stephen Brumwell; History Today, Vol. 58, June 2008
Subjects: British history, 1714-1815, Howe, George Augustus--History, Howe, Richard--History, Howe, William--History, United States history, 1600-1775 (Colonial period), United States history--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
...America and Britain at War (New York, 2005); Stephen H. P. Pell, Lord Howe, in The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, Volume II, no 2 (1930); see also the original documents relating to the 1758 Ticonderoga campaign, published in Ibid., Volume XVI, no 1...
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Holding History: The British Museum Celebrates Its 250th Birthday This Year. Former Director Sir David M Wilson Gives a Guided Tour through Its Long and Distinguished Past
Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 75, July 2003
Subjects: Antiquities--Contributions, gifts, etc., British Museum--Buildings, facilities, etc., British Museum--Exhibitions, British Museum--History, Franks, Augustus Wollaston--Appreciation, Franks, Augustus Wollaston--History, Hamilton, William--Appreciation, Hamilton, William--History, Historical museums--Buildings, facilities, etc., Historical museums--Exhibitions, Historical museums--History, Sloane, Hans--Appreciation, Sloane, Hans--History
...process, and the appointment in 1851 of a young, wealthy curator, Augustus Wollaston Franks, to look after the collection gave it a formal...Ottoman Viceroy to move the colossal granite head of Ramses II from Thebes to London, Later, he excavated the buried temple...
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Evelyn Waugh's Neglected Masterpiece
Magazine article by John Rossi; Contemporary Review, Vol. 281, November 2002
Subjects: Put Out More Flags (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Waugh, Evelyn--Criticism, interpretation, etc., World War II, 1939-1945--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...work of fiction written about World War II and remarkably enough appeared early in...General Connolly and his wife Black Bitch, Augustus Fagin, the pompous but failed schoolmaster...themes kept emerging. When World War II broke out in September 1939, Waugh sought...
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BUY-GONES; Blasts from the Past: Part II
Newspaper article by Victor Lewis Smith; The Mirror (London, England), August 24, 1996
BUY-GONES; Blasts from the Past: Part II. by Victor Lewis Smith Who said nostalgia isnt what...Isobel Rose (described in a 1972 TV ad as "only 49p a bottle from Augustus Barnett"). DEAD or ALIVE Have you noticed that its impossible...
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Love Story Told in Old Porcelain
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 30, 2005
...painted on the piece. They are those of Frederick-Augustus II, Elector of Saxony, King Augustus III of Poland...Maria-Josepha to give to her husband Frederick-Augustus II, Elector of Saxony, King Augustus III of Poland to mark their 25th wedding anniversar...
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Grandeur of Poland: Exhibit Connects History to Art Heritage
Newspaper article by Lisa Rauschart; The Washington Times, April 11, 1999
Subjects: Poland
...the "Insignia of the Coronation of Augustus III (Crown), 1733" draws in even...Museum in Warsaw during World War II and looted by the Germans, the insignia...Orzelska. The illegitimate child of King Augustus II and Henrietta Renard-Duval, the daughter...
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Dresden's New Magnificence; Baroque Glory Returns to Florence on the Elbe
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 26, 2006
...when the city flourished under the rule of the Elector Augustus II - Augustus the Strong - from 1694 to 1733 and his son...the domes of Dresden on the Elbe River. Before World War II, Saxonys capital was known as the Florence on the Elbe...
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Costa Bomb Thugs Won't Scare Us off the Beaches; HOLIDAY SPIRIT: Scots Won't Let the Terrorists Spoil Their Sunshine Breaks
Newspaper article by Cara Page, Mark Dowdney; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), July 23, 1996
Subjects: Appliance industry, Appliances, Elektronische Apparate GmbH, Home appliances industry
...it out on innocent tourists, and it wont work. People will not give in to this." Two bombs were found in the Hotel Augustus II, near Salou, early yesterday, but they were defused by police. But most Scots are taking the danger in their stride...
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Augustus II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AUGUSTUS II 1670 1733, king of Poland (1697 1733) and, as Frederick Augustus I, elector of Saxony (1694 1733). He commanded...and the pope. With help from Patkul , Augustus allied himself (1699) with Peter I of...
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Frederick Augustus II , Elector of Saxony
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS II , elector of Saxony elector of Saxony: see Augustus III , king of Poland. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Augustus III
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1735 63) and, as Frederick Augustus II, elector of Saxony (1733 63); son of Augustus II , whom he succeeded in Saxony...and later, as Frederick Augustus I , king), but Stanislaus II was elected king of Poland...
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Frederick Augustus I , 1670–1733, Elector of Saxony
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS I , 1670 1733, elector of Saxony elector of Saxony: see Augustus II , king of Poland. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Sigismund Augustus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SIGISMUND AUGUSTUS see Sigismund II . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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