Nine Years' War (Cromwell the Great)

The Nine Years' War (1688–97) was a major conflict between Louis XIV of France and a European-wide coalition of Austria and the Holy Roman Empire, the Dutch Republic, Spain, British Commonwealth, Sweden and Savoy.

It was fought on the European continent and the surrounding seas, Ireland, North America and in India. It is sometimes considered the first truly global war. It also encompassed a theatre in Ireland and in Scotland, where the Jacobites struggled for control of Britain and Ireland, and a campaign in colonial North America between French and English settlers and their respective Indian allies (King William's War).

The main fighting took place around France's borders: in the Spanish Netherlands; the Rhineland; Duchy of Savoy; and Catalonia. The fighting generally favoured Louis XIV's armies.