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The Nine Years' War [c] was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between France and the Grand Alliance. [d] Although largely concentrated in Europe, fighting spread to colonial possessions in the Americas, India, and West Africa. Related conflicts include the Williamite war in Ireland, and King William's War in North America.
King William's War (also known as the Second Indian War, [a] Father Baudoin's War, [3] Castin's War, [4] or the First Intercolonial War in French [5]) was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688–1697), also known as the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg.
In The Grand Alliance Churchill stated that Japan was in a "sinister twilight" in 1941, although he believed she could be deterred by forceful diplomacy. When the Japanese prime minister Fumimaro Konoe on 28 July 1941 ordered the occupation of southern French Indochina, disregarding Roosevelt's long-standing warnings, Roosevelt imposed ...
The Grand Alliance was the most significant of the coalitions formed in response to the wars of Louis XIV that began in 1667 and ended in 1714. Post-1648, French expansion was helped by the decline of Spanish power while the Peace of Westphalia formalised religious divisions within the Holy Roman Empire.
The Grand Alliance declared war on France on 15 May 1702, followed on 30 September by the Imperial Diet. [16] The Treaty provisions concealed two important issues; first, neither England nor the Dutch Republic would allow the other to control the Spanish Netherlands and thus preferred to assign it to Austria, for whom as a mon-maritime power it ...
Here’s a guide to all of Yarros’ books in order, grouped by series, plus what’s next for her dragon riders in Onyx Storm. The Flight & Glory series Entangled: Amara
Decades before the latest eruption of war in Israel and Gaza that began with Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre — and well before Internet algorithms amplified misinformation — the Israeli-Palestinian ...
The conflict was part of the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years' War between Louis XIV of France and the Grand Alliance, a coalition led by William as Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. Both Louis and William viewed Ireland as a subsidiary theatre, as did James, whose primary objective was to regain England. [7]