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Voltaire's history of Charles XII, king of Sweden

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Piper, Count, prime minister of Charles XII, 15, 16, 17, 41, 43, 72, 80;
  advises Charles XII to take the crown of Poland, 91, 92;
  negotiates with the plenipotentiaries of Augustus, 121;
  question as to whether he received money from the Duke of
  Marlborough, 137, 138;
  receives Turkish ambassador, 148;
  at Pultawa, 169, 173;
  his imprisonment at St. Petersburg and death, 179;
  in Peter the Great’s triumphal procession, 205

Pirates, send to Charles XII to make terms with them, 318, 319

Poland, government and general condition of, 62-67;
  torn by conflicting parties, 70-74;
  embassy sent by, to Charles XII, 76;
  throne of, declared vacant, 90;
  crown of, offered to Alexander Sobiesky, 92;
  Stanislas Leczinski elected and crowned king, 99, 109;
  invaded by Peter the Great, 132;
  two kings and two primates in, _ib._;
  insurrection in, after battle of Pultawa, 200;
  Augustus returns to, as king, _ib._;
  miserable condition of, 134;
  the people’s fear of arbitrary power, 294;
  force Augustus to submit to the Pacta Conventa, _ib._;
  the Czar makes himself master in, 298

Pomerania, battles in, 280

Poniatowski, General, 174, 177;
  his designs at Constantinople, 189, 193;
  draws up indictment against the Grand Vizir and presents it to
  the Sultan, 195, 196;
  plots against the Grand Vizir, 196;
  negotiates with new Grand Vizir, 199;
    attempts to poison him, _ib._;
  in Grand Vizir’s army against the Russians, 218;
  opposes the treaty of peace, 224;
  sends letter to Sultan accusing the Grand Vizir, 232;
  sends letter of advice to Charles XII, 258;
  at siege of Stralsund, 308

Posnania, Bishop of, handed over to papal legate, 102;
  carried to Saxony, and dies, 103

Pretender, the, James II’s son, plots for placing him on the
  throne, 317, 319, 320, 325

Prussia, the first king of, league proposed by, to secure peace
  and the restoration of Charles XII, 270

Pruth, Peace of, 225, 234;
  Sultan’s anger at infraction of, 239

Pultawa, great battle of, 169-175


Radjouski, Cardinal, his intrigues, 70, 71;
  opposes the king in the Diet, 76;
  his manifesto, 77;
  flees from Warsaw, _ib._;
  his interview with Charles XII, 80;
  takes his oath of fealty to the latter, 83;
  throws off his mask and declares Augustus incapable of wearing
  the crown of Poland, 90;
  unable to oppose the election of Stanislas, 99;
  finds legitimate excuse for not consecrating him, 109;
  his death, _ib._

Renschild, General under Charles XII, 41;
  defeats Schullemburg at Frauenstadt, 115, 116;
  with Stanislas in Poland, 134;
  remark on the Council at Dresden, 144;
  at Pultawa, 169, 172;
  taken prisoner, 173;
  conversation with the Czar, 180;
  in triumphal procession of the Czar, 205

Riga, besieged by the King of Poland, 46

Rome, Court of, its policy, 102, 107;
  Charles XII’s disgust with, 140

Russian prisoners massacred by Charles XII and Stanislas, 117

Ryswick, peace of, 14