Franco-Dutch War 1672-1678 (Cromwell the Great)

The Franco-Dutch War (1672–78), often called simply the Dutch War (French: Guerre de Hollande; Dutch: Hollandse Oorlog), was a war fought by France, Cologne, Münster, against the Dutch Republic, Commonwealth of England and Sweden (Triple Alliance) which was later joined by the Austrian Habsburg lands, Brandenburg-Prussia and Spain. The war ended with the Treaty of Nijmegen, by which Spain ceded the Franche-Comté and some cities in Flanders and Hainaut to France, while France returned some of its conquests (Maastricht and the Principality of Orange) to the Dutch.

The year 1672, when a full invasion of English, French and German forces took much of the Dutch Republic by surprise, is often referred to as het Rampjaar ("the Disaster Year") in Dutch.