Identifier: modernhistoryeur00west (find matches)
Title: Modern history; Europe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ine. As before, the French armies were victori-ous in the field; but, as before too, William checked Louis by a generalEuropean alliance. France, gained ?io territory, and indeed surrenderedsome of the reunions of the preceding period. This war is known inAmerican history as King Williams War. It was the beginning ofa new Hundred Years War (1689-1815) between France and England,for world-empire, — though it cannot be said that either country wasconscious at first of the importance of the struggle outside Europe. Louis hoped to make good his disappointment by arranging a partitionof Spain. Charles II, the last Spanish Hapsburg, was dying. The crownwould go naturally either to the Austrian Hapsburgs or to the childrenof Louis XIV, who were nephews of Charles. This time Louis seemedto prefer negotiation to war, and he arranged a partition treaty withWilliam of Orange, in accordance with which the Spanish realms were tobe divided among the Powers of Europe. But the proud Spanish people,
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§262) THE AGE OE LOUIS XIV. 285 who had not been consulted, had no mind for such an assassination oftheir empire. They preferred instead the accession of Louis youngergrandson, as Philip V; and Charles II so arranged in his will. When thisbecame known, on the death of Charles in 1700, Louis abandoned thepartition plan and snatched at the whole prize. Said he exultantly, ThePyrenees no longer exist. Then Europe united against France andSpain in the War of the Spanish Succession, — known in Americanhistory as Queen Annes War. In this struggle, for the first time,success in the field lay with the Allies. The English Marlborough andthe Hapsburg Prince Eugene were two of the greatest generals of history,and they won splendid victories over the hitherto invincible armies ofFrance, at Blenheim, Bamillies, Ouclenarde, and Malplaquet. The allies were supporting an Austrian Hapsburg for the Spanishthrone ; but unexpectedly this prince became Emperor Charles VI. Afterthat event, to make him a

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