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War of the Grand Alliance: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As War of the League of Augsburg
Date 1689 - 1697
Location Europe
Participants Austria • Bavaria • Brandenburg • Dutch Republic • France • Saxony • Spain • England

Photos

Jan van Huchtenburg: William III and Maximilian II Emanuel
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Key People

Charles Le Brun: Portrait of King Louis XIV
Louis XIV
king of France
William III
William III
king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer
Leopold I
Leopold I
Holy Roman emperor
Eugene of Savoy
Eugene of Savoy
Austrian general
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François-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois
French statesman
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François-Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duke de Luxembourg
French general
Painting by Antoine Pesne showing King Frederick I seated on an ornate silver throne, wearing elaborate royal robes and holding a scepter, with a crown on a table beside him.
Frederick I
king of Prussia
Maximilian II Emanuel, engraving by Karl Gustav Amling, 1682
Maximilian II Emanuel
elector of Bavaria
Coehoorn, engraving by Pieter Schenk I
Menno, baron van Coehoorn
Dutch engineer
A French hero
Jean Bart
French military officer
Anthonie Heinsius, engraving by L.A. Claesens, after a portrait by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Anthonie Heinsius
Dutch statesman
Louis-François, duc de Boufflers
Louis-François, duke de Boufflers
French general
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Anne-Hilarion de Cotentin, count de Tourville
French admiral
Benbow, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1701; in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
John Benbow
English admiral
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John George III
elector of Saxony
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Louis III, 6 prince de Condé
French prince
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François-Louis Rousselet, marquis de Château-Renault
French admiral

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