Treaties of the Habsburg Monarchy - Anglo-Austrian Alliance, Convention of Turin, First Partition of Poland, Franco-Austrian Alliance, Peace of Pressbu (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Anglo-Austrian Alliance, Convention of Turin, First Partition of Poland, Franco-Austrian Alliance, Peace of Pressburg (1805), Peace of Vasvar, Peace of Zsitvatorok, Third Partition of Poland, Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748), Treaty of Aranjuez (1752), Treaty of Belgrade, Treaty of Berlin (1742), Treaty of Breslau, Treaty of Campo Formio, Treaty of Dresden, Treaty of Fontainebleau (1785), Treaty of Fussen, Treaty of Gyalu, Treaty of Hubertusburg, Treaty of Ilbersheim, Treaty of Karlowitz, Treaty of Passarowitz, Treaty of Rastatt, Treaty of Reichenbach (1790), Treaty of Sistova, Treaty of Speyer (1570), Treaty of Teschen, Treaty of The Hague (1720), Treaty of the Three Black Eagles, Treaty of Versailles (1756), Treaty of Versailles (1757), Treaty of Versailles (1758), Treaty of Vienna (1656), Treaty of Vienna (1657), Treaty of Vienna (1725), Treaty of Vienna (1738), Treaty of Warsaw (1745), Treaty of Worms (1743). Excerpt: The First Partition of Poland or First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in 1772 as the first of three partitions that ended the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. Growth in the Russian Empire's power, threatening the Kingdom of Prussia and the Habsburg Austrian Empire, was the primary motive behind this first partition. Frederick the Great engineered the partition to prevent Austria, jealous of Russian successes against the Ottoman Empire, from going to war. The weakened Commonwealth's land, including that already controlled by Russia, was apportioned among its more powerful neighbors-Austria, Russia and Prussia-so as to restore the regional balance of power in Eastern Europe among those three countries. With Poland unable to effectively defend itself, and with foreign troops already inside the country, the Polish parliament (Sejm) ratified the...