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allies signed a peace with the emperor and suspended the military and financial assistance of the Hungarian Confederation. Ferenc Rákóczi II did not get substantive Swedish or Polish assistance and even the Turkish Sultan did not support him because of the operative peace treaty with the Habsburgs. Only Peter I, Tsar of Russia signed a treaty with the prince in Warsaw in September 1707. The tsar offered the Polish throne to Rákóczi, who would have accepted it under terms: the tsar should assure the freedom of the Polish and a Polish- Hungarian-Transylvanian Confederation should be established with the assurance of England and Holland included in the peace treaty ending the war. Despite the Russian victory by Poltava in 1709 the tsar was engaged by the Swedish war, thus Ferenc Rákóczi II and his state was left alone.
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