HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Great Power, Protestantism, Breisach
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Palatinate is a major city in which german forces could lunch an attack into france. Louis defensive stance was his final mistake which left many. German town completely destroyed as well as further angering the rest of europe: november 15 1688 england"s glorious revolution, william iii (former william orange) invaded england after being invited by the protestant english. William iii was to try and overthrow james ii (catholic: william iii had a claim to the english thrown as he was married to james. Constitutional monarchy was able to produce a better standing army of 95, 000 men who were better trained: england also became the strongest naval power. May 29 1692 combined anglo-dutch fleet destroyed french navy and completely destroyed the french navel superiority. The french navy was then forced to turn to acts of piracy or small engagements, since they were no longer able to field a good amount of ships in order to win any decisive naval battles.
