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Battle of Schooneveld. The first battle of Schooneveld, 7 June 1673 by Willem van de Velde, the elder, painted c.1684. The Battles of Schooneveld were two naval battles of the Franco-Dutch War, fought off the coast of the Netherlands on 7 June and 14 June 1673 ( New Style; 28 May and 4 June in the Julian calendar then in use in England) between ...
The Franco-Dutch War, also known as the Dutch War (French: Guerre de Hollande; Dutch: Hollandse Oorlog), was fought between France and the Dutch Republic, supported by its allies the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Brandenburg-Prussia and Denmark-Norway. In its early stages, France was allied with Münster and Cologne, as well as England. The 1672 to 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War and 1675 to 1679 ...
1,700. The siege of Maastricht took place from 15 to 30 June 1673 during the Franco-Dutch War of 1672 to 1678, when a French army captured the Dutch fortress of Maastricht. The city occupied a key strategic position on the Meuse river and its capture was the main French objective for 1673; it was returned to the Dutch under the terms of the ...
The siege of Valenciennes took place from 28 February to 17 March 1677, during the Franco-Dutch War, when Valenciennes, then in the Spanish Netherlands, was attacked by a French army under the duc de Luxembourg. Over the winter of 1676 to 1677, Valenciennes and Cambrai were subjected to a tight blockade, which prevented reinforcements or ...
Though England first declared war on the States General of the United Provinces on 27 March 1672, the ensuing hostilities were largely French inspired. Louis XIV had been waging economic and political warfare against the Dutch with extraordinary tenacity during the previous four years. Employing high tariffs and secret diplomacy, the King of ...
Combined with natural bodies of water, the Waterline could be used to transform Holland, the westernmost region of the Netherlands and adjacent to the North Sea, almost into an island. In the 19th century, the Line was extended to include Utrecht . On July 26, 2021, the line was added to the Defence Line of Amsterdam to become the Dutch Water ...
