HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Peacemaker Kurogane, Wage War, Breisach
Document Summary
France struck out at philippsburg in 1688. Logic prompted by strategic need to round of france"s territorial defenses on frontier near river rhine. French move was largely defensive, self-contained one-off - not to precipitate war. You can commit suicide through fear of being murdered. Round off defenses for future conflict with german forces - they struck out because they did not calculate their acts on german states and european powers as a whole. Failed to see resentment they built up over years of sem-aggression of encroachment with neighbours. Instead of intimidating or putting in place powers - pushed german states and europe as a whole into forming the first great unified coalition to fight for european balance of power - to teach france a lesson. In mid october 1688, magdeburg concert - signed to save empire from french aggression (germans) saxon brandeburg. Victor of belgrade max emmanuel declared france an enemy of whole german empire.
