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After signing the secret Treaty signed in Dover, Louis XIV managed to bribe Bernhard von Galen and Maximilian Henry of Bavaria to join his anti-Dutch coalition and to invade the Dutch Republic. [ 2 ] And after capturing the Dutch-held fortresses among the Rhine , the French forces under Louis, Grand Condé would defeat a small Dutch force at ...
Detailed image of Aardenburg in 1672. On 1 April 1672 the inhabitants of Aardenburg got word that the fortress had to be dismantled. On the 18th of April it even had no defences, and all the banners would leave, but the commander would stay with 25 soldiers. With the outbreak of the Franco-Dutch War the French where taking over several Dutch ...
After the disastrous battle of Woerden, William gained permission from the Dutch field marshals to commence the siege of Charleroi.William also gained the permission from the governor of the Spanish Netherlands, the Count of Monterey to besiege Charleroi, even though that was a risky move since it could potentially drag Spain into war with France.
The Battle of Tolhuis or Crossing of the Rhine took place on 12 June 1672 during the Franco-Dutch War. The battle was fought between the army of Dutch Republic and the army of the French king Louis XIV.
The sieges of Coevorden were two separate sieges of the city of Coevorden located in Drenthe in the Netherlands.The first siege was launched for Bernhard von Galen to make further progress in his conquests in the Eastern and Northern Netherlands, and the second on with the intention to recapture the city as an aftermath of the siege of Groningen.
The Franco-Dutch War [b] was a European conflict that lasted from 1672 to 1678. Its primary belligerents were France, backed at different times by Münster, Cologne, England, and the Swedish Empire, and the Dutch Republic, allied with the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Brandenburg-Prussia and Denmark-Norway.
When the French invaded the Netherlands in June 1672, many Dutch towns and fortresses fell swiftly to the large French army. The Dutch land forces had not directly confronted their opponent in the first months of the war, except during the small encounter at Tolhuis. However, when the French marched on Holland, the richest province in the ...
Occupied in 1672 by 200 Dutch State soldiers, but due to the great force majeure and lack of ammunition, they had to surrender to the French army of 1500 men led by the Duke of Luxembourg. After this, the French occupied the castle for two months and it was only partly dismantled, because the Dutch lord of the castle was a Catholic. [ 91 ]