- AUGUSTUS III
- son of the preceding; beat Stanislaus Leszcynski in the struggle for the crown of Poland; proved an incompetent king (1696-1763).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
AUGUSTUS III
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