17th-century conflicts

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 178. Chapters: Thirty Years' War, Second Anglo-Dutch War, First Anglo-Dutch War, Sengoku period, Fronde, Nine Years' War, Dutch Revolt, American Indian Wars, List of wars 1500-1799, Brandenburg-Pomeranian conflict, Polish-Muscovite War, Cretan War, Second Northern War, Beaver Wars, Irish Confederate Wars, Portuguese Restoration War, Ottoman-Habsburg wars, War of Devolution, Ottoman wars in Europe, Ahom-Mughal conflicts, Moldavian Magnate Wars, Philippine revolts against Spain, Polish-Swedish wars, Stenka Razin, Kongo Civil War, Anglo-Powhatan Wars, Dutch-Portuguese War, Anglo-Spanish War, Darien scheme, Russian-Manchu border conflicts, Deluge, The Ruin, War of the Mantuan Succession, Wars of Castro, Tr¿nh-Nguy¿n War, Ottoman-Safavid War, Esopus Wars, Navajo Wars, Long War, King William's War, The Unknown War, Siege of Candia, Second Manchu invasion of Korea, Anglo-Turkish piracy, Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War, Polish-Ottoman War, War of 27 years, Polish-Cossack-Tatar War, Russo-Turkish War, Char Bouba war, Croatian-Ottoman Wars. Excerpt: The War of the Grand Alliance (1688-97) - often called the Nine Years' War, the War of the Palatine Succession, or the War of the League of Augsburg - was a major war of the late 17th century fought between King Louis XIV of France, and a European-wide coalition, the Grand Alliance, led by the Anglo-Dutch Stadtholder-King William III, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, King Charles II of Spain, Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, and the major and minor princes of the Holy Roman Empire. The Nine Years' War was fought primarily on mainland Europe and its surrounding waters, but it also encompassed a theatre in Ireland, where William III and James II struggled for control of the British Isles, and a minor campaign between French and English settlers and their Indian allies in colonial North America. The War was the second of Louis XIV's three major wars. Louis XIV had emerged from the Franco-Dutch War in 1678 as the most powerful monarch in Europe; but although he had expanded his realm the 'Sun King' remained unsatisfied. Using a combination of aggression, annexation, and quasi-legal means, Louis XIV immediately set about extending his gains in order to stabilize and strengthen France's frontiers, culminating in the brief War of the Reunions (1683-84). The resulting Truce of Ratisbon guaranteed the extended borders of France for twenty years, but Louis XIV's subsequent actions - notably his revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and his attempt to extend his influence in the German Rhineland - led to the deterioration of his military and political dominance. Louis XIV's decision to cross the Rhine and besiege Philippsburg in September 1688 was intended to pre-empt a strike against France by Emperor Leopold I and to force the Holy Roman Empire into accepting his territorial and dynastic claims. But when the Emperor and the German princes resolved to resist, and when the States-General and William III brought the Dutch and the English into the war against France, Louis XIV at l