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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.
In Dutch history, the year 1672 is referred to as the Rampjaar (pronounced [ˈrɑmpjaːr] ⓘ; Disaster Year). In May 1672, following the outbreak of the Franco-Dutch War and its peripheral conflict the Third Anglo-Dutch War, France, supported by Münster and Cologne, invaded and nearly overran the Dutch Republic.
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 ]
Charleroi was one of the cities annexed by France from Spain after the war of Devolution.And during the preparation of the French invasion of the Dutch Republic in 1672, it served as a supply point for the French army, it therefore had the purpose as a starting base for the French army.
At the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1667, the Dutch Navy was the largest in Europe but by 1672 the combined Anglo-French fleet outnumbered them by over a third. However, the French were inexperienced, their ships badly designed and their relationship with the Royal Navy was damaged by mutual suspicion.
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 ...
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 ...
The French began their offensives in early May 1672 by attacking Dutch outposts in the Rhine to bypass Dutch defenses in the south and the Spanish Netherlands, and under the command of François-Henri de Montmorency or simply 'Luxembourg', took the cities of Kleve, Rheinberg, Orsoy, Emmerich, Rees and Wesel in just under a week. [7]