Le Concert Spirituel

Celebrating the Battle of Steinkerque

by James Leonard

posted 11/1/2004

From 1688 through 1697, the French waged war against the Spanish, the English, the Dutch, the Danes, the Swedes, the Germans, and the Holy Roman Empire in what was later called the War of the Grand Alliance. Louis XIV, the aging Sun King, began the war in the autumn of 1688, when he invaded Germany with an army of 375,000 equipped with the latest weapons —

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