A naval commander in this war besieged Madras, prompting a retaliatory strike against Francois Martin at Pondicherry.
A naval commander in this war besieged Madras, prompting a retaliatory strike against Francois Martin at Pondicherry. One side of this war left behind a hospital ship infested with yellow fever after making off with perhaps twenty million livres at Cartagena. This war followed the Truce of Ratisbon signed after the War of the Reunions and began with a siege of Philippsburg. This war's Battle of Marsaglia was the first-ever westner use of hussars and was a loss for Victor Amadeus II, who allied with the powers that won at Namur and forced Marshall Boufflers to sign the Treaty of Ryswick. Known as "King William's War" in North America, for 10 points, identify this prequel to the War of Spanish Succession, waged by Louis XIV against a coalition named for a German city.
A naval commander in this war besieged Madras, prompting a retaliatory strike against Francois Martin at Pondicherry.
War of the League of Augsburg [or War of the Grand Alliance; or Nine Years' War; or Palatine Succession War; prompt on King William's War before it is read]