Talk:War of the Grand Alliance/Archive 2

Casualties

Any indication on the number of casualties in this war?UberCryxic 16:20, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

No Uber, too many drownings, desertions and others suffering from disease, famine etc. Only possible to make a guess. Cya. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/War of the Grand Alliance. Raymond Palmer 12:28, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

War Timeline

I heard this war started in 1689 somebody should change that,right?(This unsigned post was added on 29th November 2006 by Fishingmusic)

You heard Wrong! Raymond Palmer 12:21, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

England

I noticed the note in combatants about England, Scotland and Ireland being separate kingdoms. I understand the English parliment voted to join the Grand Alliance in the summeer of 1690; did the Scottish parliament ever do that? If so, when? And if so, would Scotland be a combatant also? And the same for Ireland? Does anyone know? Xyl 54 11:43, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Constitutionally, Castile, the three component parts of the crown of Aragon, Sardinia, the two Sicilies, and the Spanish Netherlands were all separate entities. "England" here means "The King of England," not "The Kingdom of England," just as "Spain" means "the King of Spain," and not the non-existent "Kingdom of Spain". john k 03:25, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

possible inaccuracy?

Here, there is no mention of a 1684 Siege of Luxembourg, but there is a mention of a siege of Luxembourg that ended in 1682. The Siege of Luxembourg (1684) page (content taken from History of Luxembourg) says there was a 1684 one, as do several other articles linked to that page, and a British Library plan of the siege. Were there two sieges, or is the date in this article a mistake? Calliopejen1 16:32, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

The French first besieged the city in 1681 but later abandoned it. From the article:

Louis’ troops also began the siege of Luxembourg to add to their acquisitions in the Moselle valley, but although this siege was abandoned in March 1682, French hostility continued.

Is was originally abandoned due to pressure from the Dutch and because Louis wanted to show Christian unity after the Ottoman Turks invaded the Habsburg lands in the east. This of course was a disingenuous act (Louis had been actively encouraging the Turks to attack Vienna and Leopold I). After Mehmed IV's army was crushed outside Vienna and fell pell mell into retreat, Spain (bravely to some, foolishly to others) declared war on the agressive French King. Louis therefore once again besieged Luxembourg. Also from the article:

By 1683 the Turks, encouraged by the French, had besieged Vienna, defining the high water mark of Ottoman power. Although Vienna was rescued by John III Sobieski, King of Poland, and Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, Louis was able to take advantage of the Ottoman crisis in the east and renewed the siege of the Spanish city of Luxembourg.[27] But the Spanish, encouraged by the relief of Vienna and under the misapprehension that the Emperor and the Dutch would assist them, declared war on France in autumn 1683.[28] Louis reacted with a brief and devastating campaign; by June 1684 Spanish resistance had collapsed and Luxembourg had fallen to Vauban and Marshal Créqui, leading in August to the negotiations at Regensburg (Ratisbon).

It's all there. Raymond Palmer 00:54, 14 July 2007 (UTC)