War of the Polish Succession
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The War of the Polish Succession was a major European conflict sparked by a civil war in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth over the succession to Augustus II the Strong, which the other European powe
Augustus II; his death in February 1733 sparked the war
Stanisław Leszczyński, painting by Jean-Baptiste van Loo
Augustus III of Poland, painting by Louis de Silvestre
French Royal Army fusiliers as they dressed in 1735
The Bourbon Conquest of the Two Sicilies took place between 1734 and 1735 during the War of the Polish Succession, when Spain, under Philip V, invaded the Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of Sicily,
Charles of Bourbon on horseback during the Siege of Gaeta (Giovanni Luigi Rocco, c. 1734, private collection)
Elisabeth Farnese with her eldest son Charles, 1716
Charles, Duke of Parma, by Giovanni Maria delle Piane (Il Mulinaretto), 1732, Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso
José Carrillo de Albornoz, Count of Montemar, conqueror of Oran, led the Spanish army