Swedes, their stature and endurance, 4; fate of those taken prisoners at Pultawa, 178, 179; sold as slaves at Constantinople, 194; their love of war and of their king, 207; their inveterate hatred of the Danes, 208; thousands made slaves, 298 Tartars, description of, 213; their extreme hospitality, 213, 214; receive no pay in war but their booty, 214 Tartary. _See_ Kan Thorn, King of Poland, retires to, 85; siege of, by Charles XII, 89 Turkish troops, description of, 214, 215 Turks, embassy from, to Charles XII, 148; present the king with one hundred Swedish soldiers who had been redeemed by the Grand Master, 148 Ukrania, its need of a protector in one of the surrounding States, 156; seeks protection from Poland, _ib._; from Russia, 156, 157 Ulrica Eleanora, Princess, sister of Charles XII, asked to take the Regency in Sweden, 285; refuses to make peace with Denmark and resigns, _ib._; sends account of affairs to her brother, _ib._ Usedom, taken from the Swedes by the Prussians, 303 Valida, Sultana, favours Swedish cause, 211 Villelongue, Monsieur de, his bold action on behalf of Charles XII, 274; presents petition to the Sultan at the risk of his life, 275, 276; has interview with Sultan, _ib._; is released, 277; taken prisoner at siege of Stralsund, 309 Warsaw, Charles XII appears before, 79; battle near, 81; Augustus enters it as a victorious sovereign, 102; coronation of Stanislas in, 109; entered in triumph by Augustus, 123 Winter of 1709, memorable, 163; Charles XII loses 2,000 men on one march, _ib._ Wirtemburg, Prince, taken prisoner at Pultawa, 173 Zaporavians, description of, 166 Zobor, Count, Emperor’s chamberlain, his quarrel with Swedish ambassador and its results, 138-140 LETCHWORTH THE TEMPLE PRESS PRINTERS TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. A table of contents has been added by this Transcriber.