Central European War (Cromwell the Great)

The Central European War (1778-1782) started as a means to restore the balance and control of Central Europe and the Baltic between Prussia, Austria and Russia after the Silesian War and the unexpected Russian victories against the Ottomans in the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774).

The war was mainly fought in the territories of East Prussia and the Poland-Lithuania.

After the War, the First Partition of Poland (1782) enable Prussia to gain Royal Prussia and parts of Greater Poland leaving the major Commonwealth's major port of Gdańsk/Danzig as an exclave. Russia gained from the northeast Belarus, and parts of Livonia.