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War of the Polish Succession: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 1733 - 1738
Location Europe • Italy • Poland
Participants Augustus III • Austria • France • Russia • Sardinia • Spain • Stanisław I • Polish

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Key People

André-Hercule de Fleury, engraving by G. Massi after a painting by Hyacinthe Rigaud
André-Hercule de Fleury
French cardinal
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Charles VI
Holy Roman emperor
Stanisław I
Stanisław I
king of Poland
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Andrey Ivanovich, Count Osterman
Russian statesman
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Carlo Vincenzo Ferrero di Roasio, marchese d’Ormea
Piedmontese statesman
Traun, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist
Otto Ferdinand, count von Abensperg und Traun
Austrian field marshal
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Charles Emmanuel III
king of Sardinia-Piedmont

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