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Signature. Frederick Augustus I ( German: Friedrich August I.; Polish: Fryderyk August I; French: Frédéric-Auguste Ier; 23 December 1750 – 5 May 1827) was a member of the House of Wettin who reigned as the last Elector of Saxony from 1763 to 1806 (as Frederick Augustus III) and as the first King of Saxony from 1806 to 1827. [1]
Augustus's forces in Poland suffered serious defeats, and he was deposed by the Swedes in January 1704 when a rump Polish parliament elected Charles's client as king. Augustus's Saxon troops continued to fight, suffering a terrible defeat at Fraustadt in February 1706. Swedish troops occupied Saxony for a year.
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May 1, 2024 · king (1806-1827), Saxony. Role In: Napoleonic Wars. Frederick Augustus I (born Dec. 23, 1750, Dresden, Saxony—died May 5, 1827, Dresden) was the first king of Saxony and duke of Warsaw, who became one of Napoleon’s most loyal allies and lost much of his kingdom to Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Succeeding his father in 1763 as the ...
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Aug 8, 2006 · The Prussians invaded Saxony on August 29th, 1756, marking the beginning of the Seven Years War of 1756-63. Frederick the Great. At his accession in 1740 Frederick the Great of Prussia launched a struggle with Austria for the mastery of Germany which was not settled for another hundred years. Highly intelligent and cultivated, he had the ...
Oct 4, 2023 · Frederick Augustus' conversion caused dissent among the people of Saxony, but it won him his prize in the Catholic Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania as King Augustus II. Christiane never travelled to Poland or Lithuania, and she was not accorded a ceremonial crowning.
Jun 27, 2018 · Augustus II ( the Strong) (1670–1733) King of Poland (1697–1704, 1709–33) and, as Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony (1694–1733). He was elected by the Polish nobles in order to secure an alliance with Saxony, but the result was to draw Poland into the Great Northern War on the side of Russia. In 1704 Augustus surrendered his crown ...
Frederick Augustus III ( German: Friedrich August III.; 25 May 1865 – 18 February 1932) was the last King of Saxony (1904–1918). Born in Dresden, Frederick Augustus was the eldest son of King George of Saxony and his wife, Maria Anna of Portugal . Frederick Augustus served in the Royal Saxon Army before becoming king, and later was promoted ...
