FRANCO-DUTCH WAR

1661-72

FRENCH AMBITIONS

Upon beginning his personal rule, Louis XIV conducts an expansionist foreign policy with plans to annex the Habsburg Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of northern France, western Germany and the southern Netherlands). He also turns on his former ally, the Dutch Republic, and aims to defeat them.

1 June 1670

TREATY OF DOVER

Charles II of England signs a secret treaty with France. He agrees to convert to Roman Catholicism and assist