HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Barrier Treaty, Rastatt, Act Of Settlement 1701
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The war of the spanish succession: part iii: The peace of utrecht-rastadt: three major battles: ramielles, turin, and blenheim, marlborough (churchill) demanded fast-paced war for britain"s supremacy, dutch"s security was not primary concern for british. 1707 england became united kingdom: dutch had to give up its navy, britain, with their possession of gibraltar and dominant navy, brought austrian. Archduke charles to take spain: the allies now wanted to put charles iii of austria on the spanish throne. Joseph i of the holy roman empire agreed with marlborough on no peace without spain : joseph i was better than his father (leopold) in diplomacy. Spain if philip didn"t give up his spanish throne. Asiento. said louis xiv: fortunately, france had a brilliant commander, the duke of villars. 11th september 1709 at malplaquet- villars faced the bigger army of marlborough and eugene of savoy: during the french counter-attack, villars was struck by a cannon ball and his lieutenants messed it up.
