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II. The Grand Alliance in 1698

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2010

A. D. Francis
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Although after the peace of Ryswick it was generally expected that the sea powers would renew the Grand Alliance, by April 1698 King William had already concluded that he was free to embark on the Partition negotiations without infringing any obligation towards the emperor. At his audience on 13 June the imperial ambassador Count Leopold von Auersberg still brought up the question of the allied undertaking to lend a fleet to convey the Archduke Charles and a German army to Catalonia, but fortunately the emperor himself had freed the king from this outstanding obligation by telling the king of Spain that he would be unable to provide for an expeditionary force, until he had made peace with the Turks. So although Auersberg put several awkward questions they could all be answered by general and rather non-committal assurances.

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The Historical Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , 1967 , pp. 352 - 360
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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10 Grimblot, op. cit. 1, 511, II, 4, 29, 49, 67.

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13 Louis XIV noted that the imperialists courted parliament as well as the king (Grimblot, op. cit. 1, 512).

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16 S.P. 89/17, Paul Methuen to Vernon, 13 May 1698.

17 S.P. 89/17, Paul Methuen to Vernon, 8 July 1698.

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21 Add. MSS. 39335, fos. 69–71, Paul Methuen to Blathwayt, 16 Sept 1698; Postrimerías, III, 369; Tagebuch, Harrach, 21 July 1698.

22 S.P. 89/17, Paul to John Methuen, 2 Sept. 1698.

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