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Book SynopsisThis title explores and illustrates the armies of France, and six countries allied against Louis XIV, in a wide-ranging Continental conflict that ushered in more than a century of European warfare.Formed in 1689, the ''Grand Alliance'' or League of Augsburg was a military coalition of the Holy Roman Empire, the Dutch Republic, Britain, Spain and the Duchy of Savoy, to resist Louis XIV''s rich, powerful and expansionist France. The first stage of the nine year conflict that followed also coincided with the so-called ''Glorious Revolution'' in Britain (1688
91), when the throne passed to the Dutch Protestant leader, William of Orange, the head of a multi-national Dutch, Danish and English army, which finally expelled James II''s Jacobite and French forces from Ireland. The long war on the continent was notable for the first widespread use of regimental uniforms and flintlock muskets with bayonets, plus the sophisticated use of siege warfare under the great French engineer, V
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION French expansionism, 1667–88 The ‘Glorious Revolution’: Britain, 1688–91 Chronology of the ‘Glorious Revolution’ CHRONOLOGY OF THE EUROPEAN WAR ARMIES IN BRITAIN The English army, 1685 Expansion, 1686–88 The Scots army, 1685–88 The Irish army, 1685–88 William of Orange’s invasion army, 1688–90: Dutch & Anglo-Scots units Danish auxiliary corps Exile units William III’s British armies, 1689–98 The Jacobite army, 1688–91 French expeditionary corps THE FRENCH ARMY THE SPANISH ARMY THE IMPERIAL ARMY THE DUTCH ARMY THE SAVOYARD ARMY SELECT BIBLIOGRAPY PLATE COMMENTARIES INDEX
