| Franco-Dutch War Guerre de Hollande (French) |
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| Part of Wars of the Sun King | |||||||||
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 Kingdom of France
|  Dutch Republic
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| ~400,000 | ~ ~700,000 | ||||||||
The Franco-Dutch War (1672–78), often called simply the Dutch War (French: Guerre de Hollande; Dutch: Hollandse Oorlog), was a war fought by Kingdom of France, Cologne, and 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 French and German forces took much of the Dutch Republic by surprise, is often referred to as het Rampjaar ("the Disaster Year") in Dutch.
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