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Excerpt from History of the Revolutions in Europe: From the Subversion of the Roman Empire in the West, Till the Congress of Vienna
This peace was soon followed by a new war, which Louis XIV: undertook against the Republic of the Seven United Pro vinces. Wishing to be avenged on the Dutch, whom he knew to be the principal authors of the Triple Alliance, and consult ing only his own propensity for war, he alleged, as a pretext, certain insulting medals which had been struck in Holland, on the peace of aix-la-chapelle, and the Triple Alliance.1 In vain did the states-general offer him every satisfaction he persist ed ln his purpose of declaring war; and the better to succeed in his design, he endeavoured first to dissolve the Triple Alliance. Colbert de Croissy, whom he sent to England, found means to detach Charles II. From the alliance, and to draw him over to side with Louis against the Republic. The same success at tended the negotiation which he set oh foot with the Court of Stockholm. Following the example of England, the Swedes renounced the Triple Alliance, and joined with France. Seve ral princes of the Empire, such as the Elector of Cologne and the Bishop of Munster, adopted the same line of conduct. The war broke out in 1672; and so rapid were the conquests of Louis, that he subdued in one single campaign the provinces of Gueldres, Utrecht, Overyssel, and part of Holland. He would have carried the city of Amsterdam, if the Dutch had not cut their dikes and inundated the country.
Alarmed at these extraordinary successes, and apprehending the entire subversion of the Republic, the Emperor Leopold I. The King of Spain, the Elector of Brandenburg, and the Impe rial States, leagued in their favour, and marched to their relief.
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