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Who won the French war?

The Franco Dutch War (English: Franco Dutch War, referred to as: Dutch War, translation Dutch War) was a war between European countries that occurred from 1672 to 1678.

The Franco-Dutch War was a war between the Bishops of Münster, Cologne, and Great Britain against the Dutch Republic in France, Sweden, and Germany under Louis XIV, later joined by Austria, and the lands of Ian Habsburg, Brandon Den Burg and Spain formed a quadruple alliance.

The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678, which granted France control over France and some cities in Flanders and Hainaut (formerly controlled by Spain). France won and began to dominate Europe. King Louis XIV of France was known as the “Sun King”, known as Louis the Great.

The war began in 1672 when King Louis XIV of France sent 120,000 troops to attack the Netherlands. The French army was well prepared and the number was huge. The Netherlands was caught by surprise because of believing in the treaty. The French army was able to quickly occupy most of the Netherlands, and then sent Sixty thousand elite soldiers attacked Franche-Comté and the South Netherlands in Spain, and the French army began a large-scale expansion war.

In 1677, William III’s diplomacy with the United Kingdom was successful, and he married Princess Mary, who was second in line to the British throne. Although Louis XIV temporarily delayed Britain’s entry into the war, he recognized that the war must be ended as soon as possible before the great advantage was lost. So he activated the clever mechanism of dividing the enemy and diplomatic negotiation, and at the same time struggling on the battlefield, he successfully occupied Ghent and Ypres in the South Netherland in March 1678, and successfully established the anti-French alliance before Britain entered the war. to the negotiating table.

The final war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678. The Netherlands was restored and benefited from low tariffs, and Sweden regained West Pomerania, which was lost in the war, but France was a huge victory. The peace treaty confirmed the French occupation of the cities of Franche-Comté, Flanders and Hainaut, which had always been Spanish territory.

The original peace treaty also stipulated that France should return the Duchy of Lorraine to the German Duke of Lorraine (but France retained the right to garrison the army), but because the Duke of Lorraine was unwilling to let the French army take root in his territory and refused to sign the peace treaty, Lorraine continued to be occupied by France ( The hexagonal French territory was first formed), and was not returned to the Duke of Lorraine until the Peace of Reiswick in 1697 (ending the War of the Grand Alliance).

After the war, countries began to recognize and revere the title of “Sun King” of Louis XIV. France, the Sun King, replaced the Netherlands as the most powerful arbiter in Europe. (King Carl XI of Sweden said angrily: “It is unbearable for the protection of the French”) After that, William III became the lifelong enemy of the “Sun King” and decided to fight the Catholic hegemony in France with his life-long efforts. The main subject of European politics in the late 1900s (which contributed to the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688).

The French-Dutch War caused the decline of the three major powers of the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden in the early 18th century: the Netherlands was limited by the geopolitical structure of Britain and France, and her maritime hegemony was finally transferred to the United Kingdom in 1713; Sweden’s traditional Military superiority could not prevent the rise of Brandenburg, and Spain’s performance in the war was even more incompetent, and finally suffered a huge defeat in the early 18th century. Except for the mainland, most of the territory was divided up by the powers.