(1733–38) European conflict waged ostensibly to determine the successor to Augustus II .
Austria and Russia supported his son Augustus III , while most Poles, France, and Spain supported Stanisław I , a former Polish king (1704–09) and father-in-law of France's Louis XV . Stanisław was elected king in 1733, but a Russian threat forced him to flee, and Augustus was elected in his place. France, with Sardinia and Spain, declared war on Austria (1733), seeking to reclaim territory in Italy held by Austria. An inconclusive campaign ended in the preliminary Peace of Vienna (1735), which redistributed the disputed Italian territory and recognized Augustus as king. A final treaty was signed in 1738.