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PONIATOWSKI , the name of a See also:Polish princely See also:family of tion of the constitution of the 3rd of May 1791 he was See also:Italian origin, tracing descent from Giuseppe Torelli, who appointed See also:commander-in-See also:chief, with instructions to guard the married about 165o an heiress of the Lithuanian family of See also:banks of the See also:Dniester and See also:Dnieper. On the outbreak of the Poniator, whose name he assumed. See also:war with See also:Russia, See also:Prince See also:Joseph, aided by See also:Kosciuszko, displayed
The first of the Poniatowskis to distinguish himself was See also:great ability. Obliged constantly to See also:retreat, but disputing See also:STANISLAUS PONIATOWSKI (1677-1762), who only belonged to every point of. vantage, he turned on the pursuer whenever the family by See also:adoption, being the reputed son of Prince Sapieha he pressed too closely, and won several notable victories. At and a Jewess. He was See also:born at Dereczyn in Lithuania, and was Polonna the Russians were repulsed with the loss of 3000 men; adopted by Sapieha's See also:intendant, Poniatowski. With his See also:father at Dubienka the See also:line of the See also:Bug was defended for five days he attached himself to the party of Stanislaus Leszczynski, and against fourfold odds; at Zielence the Poles won a still more became See also:major-See also:general in the See also:army of See also:Charles XII. of See also:Sweden. See also:signal victory. Finally the Polish arms converged upon See also:Warsaw, After the defeat of Pultowa he conveyed Charles XII. across and were preparing for a general engagement when a See also:courier the Dnieper, and remained with him at See also:Bender. From there from the See also:capital informed the generals that the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king had acceded he was sent to See also:Constantinople, where he extracted from the to the See also:confederation of Targowica (see See also:POLAND: See also:History) and See also:sultan Achmet III. a promise to See also:march to See also:Moscow. When the had at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time guaranteed the See also:adhesion of the army. See also:grand See also:vizier, Baltagi Mehemet, permitted the See also:tsar See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter I. to All hostilities were therefore to be suspended. After an indigretreat unharmed from the banks of the Pruth, Poniatowski nant but fruitless protest, Poniatowski and most of the other exposed his See also:treason. He rejoined Leszczynski in the duchy generals threw up their commissions and emigrated. During of See also:Zweibrucken, See also:Bavaria, of which he became See also:governor. the Kosciuszko rising he again fought gallantly for his See also:country After the See also:death of Charles XII. in 1718 he visited Sweden; under his former subordinate, and after the fall'of the See also:republic and was subsequently reconciled with Leszczynski's See also:rival on resided as a private See also:citizen at Warsaw for the next ten years. the See also:throne of Poland, See also:Augustus II., who made him grand After See also:Jena and the evacuation of the Polish provinces by treasurer of Lithuania in 1724. On the death of Augustus.H. See also:Prussia, Poniatowski was offered the command of the See also:National he tried to secure the reinstatement of Leszczynski, who then Guard; he set about reorganizing the Polish army, and on the resumed his claims to the Polish See also:crown.' He was taken prisoner creation of the grand duchy of Warsaw was nominated war at See also:Danzig by the Russians, and presently gave his See also:allegiance See also:minister. During the war of 1809, when an See also:Austrian army to Augustus III., by whom he was made governor of See also:Cracow. See also:corps under the See also:archduke See also:Ferdinand invaded the grand duchy, He died at Ryki on the 3rd of See also:August 1762. Poniatowski encountered them at the bloody See also:battle of Radzyn,
His second son Stanislaus Augustus became king of Poland and though compelled to abandon Warsaw ultimately forced (see STANISLAUS II.). Of the other sons, Casimir (1721—1780) the enemy to evacuate the grand duchy, and captured Cracow. was his See also:brother's See also:chancellor; See also:Andrew (1735—1773) entered the In See also:Napoleon's See also:campaign against Russia in 1812 Poniatowski Austrian service, rising to the See also:rank of feldzeugmeister; and commanded the fifth army corps; and after the disastrous See also:Michael (1736—1794) became See also:archbishop of See also:Gnesen and See also:primate retreat of the grand army, when many of the Poles began to waver of Poland.
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