War of the Polish Succession
October 10, 1733 – October 3, 1735
Result Treaty of Vienna
France, Spain and Savoy-Sardinia backed Stanislaus I for the Polish throne against Russia, Austria and Saxony supporting Augustus III. Fighting spread to the Rhineland and Italy before the Treaty of Vienna.
France
Russian Empire
Charles III of Spain
military commander
Stanisław Leszczyński
military commander
Jan Tarło
military commander
Claude Louis Hector de Villars, 1st Duke of Villars
military commander
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
military commander
François Marie de Broglie, 1st Duke of Broglie
military commander
Battles 6
- Siege of Danzig (1734) February 22 – July 9, 1734 · Russo-Saxon victory
- Siege of Gaeta (1734) April 8 – August 6, 1734 · Franco-Spanish victory
- Battle of Bitonto May 25, 1734 · Spanish victory
- Siege of Philippsburg (1734) June 2 – July 18, 1734 · French victory
- Battle of San Pietro June 29, 1734 · Franco-Sardinian victory
- Battle of Guastalla September 19, 1734 · Franco-Sardinian victory
Before and after
- Ended by
- Treaty of Vienna (1738) November 18, 1738
Related events
Also involved 23
- Maurice de Saxe
- Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
- Ulrich Friedrich Woldemar von Löwendal
- François Gaston de Lévis
- Pyotr Saltykov
- Ernst Gideon von Laudon
- Leopold Joseph von Daun
- William Fermor
- Gaspard de Clermont-Tonnerre
- Frederick Augustus Rutowsky
- August Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern
- Louis Georges Érasme de Contades
- José Carrillo de Albornoz, 1st Duke of Montemar
- Hans Joachim von Zieten
- George Olivier, count of Wallis
- András Hadik
- Giovanni di Bricherasio
- Claude François Bidal d'Asfeld
- Hans Karl von Winterfeldt
- Francesco Eboli, Duke of Castropignano
- Luis de Córdova y Córdova
- Louis Des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, duc de Mahon
- Martín Antonio Álvarez de Sotomayor y Soto Flores