achieved by a German mercenary soldier.' Meanwhile the vizier, with an army of 150,000 men, had laid siege to Peterwardein, the most important of the Austrian border-fortresses in Hungary," and suffered death there, in a great defeat which prince Eugene inflicted upon his army, August 5, 1716. The same year, Eugene took Temesvar, and in August, 1717, he annihilated the Turkish army before Belgrad, capturing the town. See HUNGARY: A. D. 1699-1718. The result was the Treaty of Passarowitz, signed in July, 1718. "Austria retained all its conquests, thus completing its possession of Hungary by acquiring the Banat of Temesvar, and adding to it Belgrad and a strip of Servia. The Turks, on their side, kept the Morea, while Venice was confirmed in its possession of Corfu and Santa Maura, together with the conquests which it had made in 1717 in Albania and Dalmatia." _R. Lodge, History of Modern Europe, chapter 16._ TURKS: A. D. 1730. Accession of Mahmoud I. TURKS: A. D. 1735-1739. War with Russia and Austria. Favourable Treaty of Belgrade. Important acquisitions of Territory from Austria. See RUSSIA: A. D. 1725-1739. TURKS: A. D. 1754. Accession of Othman III. TURKS: A. D. 1757. Accession of Mustapha III. TURKS: A. D. 1768-1774. War with Russia on behalf of Poland. Concession of independence to the Crim Tartars. The Poles, in their struggle with Catherine II. of Russia found a strange champion in the Turk. See POLAND: A. D. 1763-1773.