The Swedish besiegers of Jasna Góra have…

The Swedish besiegers of Jasna Góra have to retire with great loss after a seventy days’ siege.

This success elicits popular enthusiasm in Poland and gives rise to a nationalistic and religious rhetoric concerning the war and Charles X, who is depicted as tactless and his mercenaries barbaric.

His refusal to legalize his position by summoning the Polish diet and his negotiations for the partition of the very state he affects to befriend awakens a nationalistic spirit in the country.