War of the Grand Alliance

noun

1. the war (1689–97) in which England, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the Holy Roman Empire in league with Bavaria, Brandenburg, Savoy, and the Palatinate opposed France.

War of the Grand Alliance

noun

1. the war (1689–97) waged by the Grand Alliance, led by Britain, the Netherlands, and Austria, against Louis XIV of France, following his invasion (1688) of the Palatinate

Example Sentences

Far from reserving all his forces for an important struggle elsewhere, foreshadowed by the approaching death of Charles II. of Spain, Louis XIV., isolated in his turn, committed the error of wasting it for a space of ten years in a War of the Grand Alliance. war of conquest, by which he alienated all that remained to him of European sympathy.

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Said a Davis memo: In material issued by OWI, the phrase World War I is not to be used unless referring to the War of the Grand Alliance, nor the phrase World War II unless referring to the War of the Spanish Succession.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Revolution threw the weight of England into the scales, and the war that ensued became the war of the Grand Alliance.

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In the war of the Grand Alliance most of these considerations voluntarily and naturally had their part.

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The severity with which the Tories, at the close of the reign of Anne, treated some of those who had directed the public affairs during the war of the Grand Alliance, and the retaliatory measures of the Whigs, after the accession of the House of Hanover, cannot be justified; but they were by no means in the style of the infuriated parties, whose alternate murders had disgraced our history towards the close of the reign of Charles the Second.

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