FRANCO-DUTCH WAR
Oct 31, 2019
2 minutes
1661-72
FRENCH AMBITIONS
Upon beginning his personal rule, Louis XIV conducts an expansionist foreign policy with plans to annex the Habsburg Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of northern France, western Germany and the southern Netherlands). He also turns on his former ally, the Dutch Republic, and aims to defeat them.
1 June 1670
TREATY OF DOVER
Charles II of England signs a secret treaty with France. He agrees to convert to Roman Catholicism and assist
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