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| 1670 |
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| Secret Treaty of Dover between Charles II of England and Louis XIV. Louis XIV sought to undermine the Triple Alliance and so followed this treaty with another. | 1 |
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| 1672 |
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| Treaty between Sweden and France and subsidy treaties with Cologne and Münster. | 2 |
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| 1672–78 |
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| French War against the Dutch. | 3 |
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| 1672 |
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| Passage of the Rhine. Louis XIV, Turenne, and Condé led 100,000 men in an easy conquest of southern Holland. The province of Holland and the city of Amsterdam were saved by opening the sluices. | 4 |
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| March 17 |
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| England declared War on the Dutch (Third Anglo-Dutch War, 1672–74). | 5 |
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| May 28 |
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| Anglo-French forces defeated at Battle of Sole Bay. | 6 |
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| June |
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| French take Utrecht. De Witt Brothers fell and William of Orange became stadholder. | 7 |
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