course of the dutch war?
Good:
- crossed the Rhine capturing 40 Dutch towns
- gained Franche Comte and its capital Besancon
- Vauban captured Maastricht in just 25 days
Bad:
- Louis rejected Conde’s offer to capture Amsterdam (gloire)
- then rejected generous peace terms of the De Witt government, making impossible demands that meant they had no choice but to keep fighting
- they opened dykes flooding land between Amsterdam and ending all French hopes of capturing it
- William then overthrew De Witt’s government and boosted Dutch defence
- the French could not bring about a decisive defeat and drained their finances, in a negative bank balance the beginning of the war
- they also seemed overly aggressive leaving civilian refugees that meant they lost their allies (Munster, Cologne and England) and the Dutch gained allies (Leopold, Lorraine and Spain)
- Turenne killed by a stray cannon ball and Conde had to retire because of gout
what land did the policy of reunions particularly focus on?
territories on the north eastern border with the spanish netherlands
overview of the buildup the nine years war?
1687: demand reunions becomes permanent French territory and seizes Avignon
1688: Cologne archbish, three demands (reunions gains, palatinate compensation and furstenburg), when not granted invades cologne and palatinate
1688-89: glorious rev
1689: 6000 troops to James in Boyne
1689-90: French aggression in palatinate (Mannheim destroyed and 20 major towns razed to ground including Worms)
1690: bullies Savoy who joins grand alliance
what went to who in the first partition treaty?
Joseph: Iberian Spain, Spanish Netherlands, Spanish colonies and Sardinia
Charles: Milan
Louis: Sicily, Naples, Tuscany and towns north of the Pyrenees
what went to who in the second partition treaty?
Charles: Spain and all overseas territories
Lorrain: Milan
Philip: apparently Lorraine (?) and all Italian lands except Milan
agreed June 1699 and ratified in March 1700 in the treaty of London
aggravating actions from Louis in the buildup to the war of spanish succession after the two partition treaties?
1700-1701
overview of the course of the nine years war?
how was the grand alliance weakened?
what French generals were there in the nine years war?
Luxembourg
Noialles
Vendome
Vauban
what were Luxembourg’s successes in the nine years war?
1693: defeated William at Neerwinden that left him defending his policies in parliament
what were Vendome’s successes in the nine years war?
1697: took Barcelona forcing Spain out of the war with losses 97% higher than France’s
what were vauban’s successes in the nine years war?
1691: captured Mons
1692: captured Namur
what were Noailles’ successes in the nine years war?
1694: captured Ter, Palamos and Girona
what caused all sides to want to reach a peace agreement in the nine years war?
French setbacks:
- by 1695 France was financially exhausted
- the last great general Luxembourg died 1695
- Villeroi replaced him and lived up to his reputation as incompetent and lost Namur in the Spanish Netherlands in 1695
- France also found that Vauban’s fortifications were not impregnable
Allied setback:
- William’s capture of Namur strengthened his reputation but brought not major breakthrough and lost lots of troops
- the allies were facing setbacks at sea and in the New World
what happened at sea during the nine years war?
what happened in North America during the Nine Years War?
successes:
- the governor general of France constantly raided English settlements
- the battle of Fort Loyal in 1690 killed over 200 English colonists
setbacks:
- but the French failed to capture their target of Boston
- the British captured Port Royal, the French capital of Nova Scotia
what happened in the caribbean in the nine years war?
what happened in India in the nine years war
in 1693 19 Dutch ships forced France to surrender Pondicherry
overview of Blenheim?
1704
overview of Malplaquet
1706
overview of 1707
overview of Oudenaarde
1708
overview of Ramillies
1709
a pyrrhic victory
what happened in 1710