war of the grand alliance

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Definition of war of the grand alliance in English English dictionary

(1689-97) Third major war of Louis XIV of France, in which his expansionist plans were blocked by an alliance led by Britain, the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and the Austrian Habsburgs. The deeper issue underlying the war was the rivalry between the Bourbon and Habsburg dynasties. Louis launched a campaign in the 1680s to position the Bourbons for future succession to the Spanish throne. To oppose him, the Habsburg emperor Leopold I joined other European nations in the League of Augsburg. The league proved ineffective, but in 1690 Britain, Brandenburg, Saxony, Bavaria, and Spain, alarmed at Louis's successes, joined with Leopold to form the Grand Alliance. As war broke out in Europe and in overseas colonies, including America (see King William's War), Louis found his military inadequately prepared, and France suffered heavy naval losses. In 1695 Louis started secret peace negotiations, which culminated in the Treaty of Rijswijk (1697). The underlying conflict between the Habsburg and Bourbon rulers and English-French conflicts remained unresolved and resurfaced four years later in the War of the Spanish Succession

an aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Empire and England and Holland and other states (1689-1697)

Hyphenation

war of the grand Al·li·ance

Turkish pronunciation

wôr ıv dhi gränd ılayıns

Pronunciation

/ˈwôr əv ᴛʜē ˈgrand əˈlīəns/ /ˈwɔːr əv ðiː ˈɡrænd əˈlaɪəns/