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74 - LOUIS XIV - WAR OF HOLLAND

Turenne, Cop, Duquesne, Peace of Nimègue.

LOUIS XIV - WAR OF HOLLAND

MONARCHY (of 1483 to 1789) » Apogee of monarchical France

Died of Turenne.

Turenne, which had followed the Germans on other side of the Rhine, prepared for the following day a great battle and visited its outposts, when it was reached by a lost ball; its officers ran: it had died.

Its soldiers cried it like a father, and Saint-Hilaire, seriously wounded by the same ball, known as with his son who cried: "It is not me, it is this great man who should be cried" (July 1675.)

Battle of Syracuse.

The French navy, range with its perfection by Colbert, competed of glory with the army.

Duquesne held head with the Spanish and Dutch fleets, and twice beat them on the coasts of Sicily.

The second combat, which was delivered to the height of Syracuse, was keenest: one fought vessel against vessel, the two admirals were with the catches, and the death of the Dutch admiral Ruyter decided victory of Duquesne (1676).

Cambric capitulation (according to Van der Meulen)

The war of seat was the favorite war of Louis XIV.

All was so well regulated by Vauban, that the opening of the trench, the three parallels and the final attack were undoubtedly done in time prescribed, like the exercises.

Valencians had been carried of attack on March 17; the 22 one were in front of Cambrai; the 28 Vauban trenched; April 4 the city capitulated.

The painter Van der Meulen followed the king in all his campaigns, drew the battle fields, the cities, the fortifications, the campings, the uniforms, so that its tables represent with a great fidelity the military history of Louis XIV.

The museum of the Louvre has a great number of it.

Louis XIV, who hates the Dutchmen like republicans, Protestants and monopolizers European commercial, declares the war (1672) to them and invades their territory with Turenne and Condé.

Holland, without union and army, seems out of state to defend itself; but the requirements of Louis XIV inspire with overcome the courage of despair; Guillaume d' Orange, high with the capacity by a revolution, bursts the dams of Holland, and forces the French to move back in front of the flood.

Spain and the emperor of Germany make alliance with him: France is attacked by a formidable coalition.

The countryside of 1674 is a series of victories: Cop stops Guillaume d' Orange with Senef; the king removes the Frank in Spain; Turenne, in an admirable campaign, drives out the Germans of Alsace, Duquesne beats the fleets of Holland and Spain.

In 1675 the Germans return to Alsace after the death of Turenne, but are pushed back by Condé.

In 1676 Duquesne makes itself main from the Mediterranean; in 1677 Luxembourg Guillaume with Cassel beats.

Victorious France imposes to its enemies the treaty of Nimègue which gives them the Frank and left the Flanders (1678-79).

France overcame Europe.

Died of Turenne.

Battle of Syracuse.

Cambric capitulation (according to…

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