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 MAA: Armies of the War of the Grand Alliance 1688–97

Formed in 1689, the League of Augsburg was an alliance of nations intent on standing firm against Louis XIV's rich, powerful and expansionist France. They were engaged in a long conflict known as the War of the Grand Alliance. This conflict was notable for the first widespread use of uniform clothing, flintlock musket and bayonet, and for the birth of sophisticated siege warfare. The final Treaty of Ryswyck (1697), which ended the Grand Alliance War, marked Louis XIV's political zenith but also the ascendancy of England as a first-rate global power. Britain had been involved in its so-called Glorious Revolution that saw the political ascendancy of William of Orange. This fully illustrated title explores the armies which fought in the War of the League of Augsburg by examining their organization, uniforms and arms. Also, the various military factions that participated in the Glorious Revolutionand the Jacobite troops who operated in Ireland.