HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Customs War, Striking Distance, Nijmegen
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The course and conclusion of the dutch war, 1672-1679: louis wanted to revenge the dutch for triple alliance, joshua blocking the sun personal humiliation, was overshadowed by the dutch economically. Dutch was economic powerhouse, wall street of europe. Dutch also had the richest bank: france"s colbert started the tariff war in 1667 when the dutch kept lowering the price -> failed. Colbert believed that the only way to make france"s economy superior than that of the dutch is to make the dutch the part of. Sweden: trained french army to have overwhelming force, signed treaty with sweden and the british (no more triple alliance, signed treaty with all german states that are bordered with either france or the dutch. to help the dutch. Commons again: louis persuaded cologne and ministers to join the anti-dutch coalition. This allowed louis to attack the dutch via a land attack while not violating spanish.
