HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Spanish Empire, Asiento, Complete Control
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Spanish netherlands: the spanish netherlands where a very significant territory for the dutch who saw it as a buffer zone from a direct border with france. English channel: the maritime powers (england and the dutch) were also interested in the war of. Spanish succession, because the spanish held a monopoly of trade within its empire: but in recent years the english and the dutch made some inroads that allowed them to trade illegally with the isolated spanish colonies. Now no european nation was willing to rush into another war: louis xiv had become disenchanted with war. July 1689 louis to tallard, if it comes to war we are well suited, we are militarily, politically, and legally prepared one never knows how it could turn out. Netherlands, and england again in three years. (assessment by delar, Ambassador in england: gaining spain will make french glorious and undermine habsburg, charles ii dies november 1700.
