Historical calendar: the anniversary of the conflict between the faithful forces of the kings of Leschinsky and August II close Lachowce. It was part of the Polish civilian War.
Today in our calendar we will look at the circumstances of this clash.
On 9 July 1703 a confederation against August II was established in Greater Poland, under the protection of Charles XII. Its authoritative leaders were zealous supporters of the Swedish option, the Poznań Voivodeship Stanisław Leszczyński and the Kalish chestnut Piotr Bronisz. In Lithuania, the situation was reversed. Due to Russia's proximity and continued hatred of the Sapiezhine camp supporting the Swedes, most crucial politicians supported the conclusion of the agreement with Russia, committing to supporting the unfortunate August II.
Soon a large stream of tsar coins sailed to Lithuania. I do not request to explain, of course, that the protection of Russia over Lithuania and the anti-Swedish organization meant that the Republic of Poland and Augustus were the vassals of Moscow and the Tsar.
On the another hand, it didn't get any better. On 14 February 1704, under further force from Charles XII, the local confederation of Wielkopolska was transformed into a general confederation in Warsaw. She, among the cheers, took the royal crown from August II. On July 12, 1704, the fresh king was elected dissmocratically, with voices of supporters of the pro-Swedish option of Karolus' pet, Stanisław Leszczyński. Later signed Polish-Swedish alliance practically subjugated the Republic of Stockholm. Our country lost Inflanty and Kurland and officially became politically and economically dependent on the fresh one, in quotes of the “soul”.
The answer of Moscow and Augustus' supporters was to bind on 20 May 1704 in Sandomierz the counter-general confederation under August II, and Stanisław Ernest Denhoff. On August 30, 1704, her Confederate representatives signed an authoritative alliance with Russia at Narva. Thus the full country was divided into supporters of Sweden and Russia, abroad powers operating in our backyard by their representatives in the form of dismocratic rabbits Sasa and Lasa.
Of course, this marked the outbreak of a fierce civilian war in which the brother murdered his brother and the neighbour plundered the neighbour’s property. It was this war – between the 2 general confederations, not the marches of abroad Russian and Swedish troops, that most destroyed the Republic of Poland. It would never have happened if we had an hereditary king, not by choice.
One of the major events of the civilian war was the conflict of Lachowce on 12 April 1709. Both sides struggled. On the side of Leszczyński was the Grand Lithuanian hetman from his broadcast, Jan Kazimierz Sapieha. On the another side, hetman the large Lithuanian fought from the broadcast of August II – Grzegorz Antoni Ogiński. In a somewhat chaotic clash, Sapieha's forces prevailed. However, not much of this came to them, for a period later, on May 23, there was an unsolved conflict with the Russian corps at Nakush. As a result, Leszczyński's supporters had to retreat and give Lithuania to August's subordinates.
In the summertime of 1709, after the celebrated conflict of Poltava that the Swedes lost, Sapieha switched to August II. However, he had to submit his hetmanic office.
Previous entry from our calendar is available Here..
